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New Theatre Space in the Throbbing Theatre District! Great for classes, film screenings, film/photo shoots/rehearsals/parties,auditions

ty-techslave — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:44:04 GMT

55 seat theatre with 20'x12' stage. Sound Proofed with Piano. Projector.

Great for classes, rehearsals, or productions, auditions, film/photo shoots, private parties.

5 blocks off Bart in the exciting theatre district.

Full theatre lighting system with 16 channel light board, 12 channel Mackie sound board and excellent sound system, 5 disc cd changer, dvd player, dual cassette player, projector, microphones, mic stands, piano, comfortable seats, dressing room with mirrors and lights, large stage with 3 possible entrances.

Email for booking and rates

Check out the website calendar for open booking dates and map of the area.
http://www.stagewerx.org

contact us at
heyyouguys@stagewerx.org
533 Sutter st. at Powell San Francisco California 94102

burners can own theatres too!

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Spass Guerilla

annie — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:16:11 GMT

As the phoenix slowly arises from the ashes and begins to morph… you find yourself wondering, what in the world is that stench? It is a horrible bouquet but one that is captivating and also familiar and welcoming. You want to turn away but not unlike the smell of gasoline, burning rubber or a particularly foul “corta`ran de el queso’. You can not. You squint, your eyes water and you think you hear a “cocksucker” in the distance and the outline of that fucked up cowboy hat but you don’t.

The ashes; Acid Cabaret--- the long laid to rest hit underground pro/am interactive performance/variety show of days past. The odor; Spass Guerilla--- a brand new Acid Cabaret inspired collaborative live theater project on on select Tuesdays at 12 Galaxies in San Francisco

Wikipedia tells us that Spass Guerilla is German for "fun (or joke) guerrilla” and that It is associated with pranks, hoaxes, and buffoonery.” You see where we are going with this.

Hosted by the very hot, the very sexy and the very twistedly infamous Katy Bell (Cyclicide); Spass Guerilla is an amateur/variety/freak/gong show of sorts. In the vein of the Acid Cabaret we throw out a survival of the fittest open-mic slant to the chaos with scheduled as well as impromptu acts vying to win fabulous prizes. Spass Guerilla a medium to showcase your weirder performance ideas, to give a voice and a stage to those bold enough to step up to the plate and swing. Spass Guerilla is for those aspiring stand up comedians who don’t want to play the games of trying to get into those clubs to get to perform, that demented set of songs that you’ve been to shy to perform live, the exotic dance routine that you’ve never been bold enough to do in a strip club because you are not a Chippen Dale or stripper type, and the sky is the limit all you have to do is bring it.

Spass Guerilla emphasizes the “i” in variety and the “me” in amateur, though “we’s” and “pro’s” are certainly most welcome. We encourage you to bring what you’ve got locked up in that closet and let it all hang out. Spass Guerilla urges you to get in touch with your inner-dork and come let your freak flag fly. At full mast.

Please email anniesouth@earthlink.net and/or cat@12galaxies.com for more information and discuss performance opportunities. There is also a sign up sheet starting at 8:00 pm on each night.

www.12galaxies.com <http://www.12galaxies.com>
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
San Francisco
May 15th, May 29th, June 15th
8:00 pm
$5

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Dr Abacus tonight!

annie — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:09:11 GMT

Monday November 27
Dr. Abacus
9:00 pm
free

@ the rite spot cafe
2099 folsom st @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net

"Complete with their own version of the Sesame Street theme, Dr.
Abacus is puttin' it down with what we lovingly call cartoon jazz,
Zappa jazz or just crazy jazz. Unleashing an unabashedly quirky,
flamboyant and caffeinated weird Jazz composite with enough spunk to
keep your nervous twitchin' up to speed, this group, armed with their
64-count jumbo box of half-eaten crayons, is refusing to stay in the
lines and keep the glue bottles out of their noses. Occasionally
echoing the bouncing-off-the-wall flair of Squirrel Nut Zippers,
you're more than likely to start imagining slaptick spy movies like
the Naked Gun or Dragnet. Fun, fun, fun." - CDBaby.com

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MaNdonna/Izzy Ozbourne/AnSo tonight!

annie — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:14:51 GMT

TONIGHT!
Saturday , March 4, 9PM
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St @ 22nd
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$10 Advance, $12 Door
To buy tickets go to
Www.12galaxies.com

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Mandonna
Izzy Ozbourne
Plus dj AnSo (me) spinning the 80's!

Mandonna, "The All-Live, All-Male Tribute to the Material Girl" is undeniably one of the most unique acts coming out of the San Francisco music scene. Featured on Howard Stern and in Maxim Magazine, they are the "must-see" band in SF this year and are drawing record numbers to their shows.

The ensemble is comprised of a tight-knit, well-attired four-piece rhythm section, a handsome and magnetic lead vocalist, and two endearing male backup singers. Mandonna is a cross between The Full Monty and a musical form of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...a wickedly funny tribute act that takes female inspiration to a new level.

Www.mandonna.com

Izzy Ozborne
Tribute bands come and go. Seldom do you find a handful of musicians that can accurately recreate all the elements needed to bring to life a stage show that has all the intensity and power of the Original Artist. Izzy Ozborne is that exception. The bands live performance from beginning to end is true to Ozzys earlier years with Randy Rhodes, Jake E. Lee, and Zakk Wylde. All songs are performed note for note including solos. Izzy himself not only sounds like Ozzy, he also looks like Ozzy as he is today. Nothing is overlooked. Izzy Ozborne truly captures Ozzy Osbourne at his best!

Www.izzyozbourne.com

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Anything coming up to Portland Ore anytime soon?

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:54:36 GMT

Just checking if any tours are happening. I'm keeping my self open for the yar dogs, but if anything else is coming through...

ThAnKs

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cd reLEASE PARTY at Cell Space 1-7-06

DaviD SatoRi — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 04:23:38 GMT

Dont Miss it This
SAturday night 1-7-06

BAND From America - CD Release Party

10:30pm at Cell Space Saturday night
Benefit for The Sustainable Solutions Caravan trip to Costa Rica

Band From America is a Pulsating canvas of geographic sound thats
dragged through the dirt and than slapped around on
the shinny ass of a unicorn

Tommy Cappel- drums ( Yard dogs Roadshow, Eenor, extra action marching band, As is Brass Band, Breakfast)

Eenor - guitar (Eenor, Breakfast)

David Satori - guitar and stuff (Aphrodesia, The Funnies)

Vir Mcoy - bass, guitar ( Hamsa Lila)

Evan Fraser - keys and crazy shit ( Hamsa Lila, The Funnies)

And Special Guest Zoe Jakes with Liz Strong - Tribal Belly Dancing

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Kitten on the Keys tonight @ The Rite Spot

annie — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:22:34 GMT

Kitten on the Keys
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
tonight
Early show: 8:00 pm
free

"Cute, kicky, irrepressible, irresistible, licentious, lewd, dizzy, delightful -- that's Kitten on the Keys. It's been a couple of years since the Lollies' utterly go-going-gone-are-her-panties piano player set out on her own with nothing but a toy piano, an accordion, two roller skates, a whip, a ukulele, a pair of stilts, a plethora of custom-made bustles and bustiers, and a steamer trunk full of feather ticklers, colored wigs, and edible pasties. And what a wild and winsome time it's been. Even with the abundance of burlesque and bally in this town, Suzanne Ramsey, as the Kitten is named, is San Francisco's finest ambassador of bada-boom. A veritable one-woman vaudevillian show, she has proven her chops as a sexy chanteuse, sassy comedienne, and gutsy mistress of ceremonies; she has enlivened Burlesquefest in Canada, MCed Tease-O-Rama in Los Angeles, fondled Liberace's ivories in Vegas, and fired imaginations throughout Europe (particularly in France, where they just can't seem to get enough of her). Yet Ramsey still finds the time and energy to perform here at home with the Lollies and San Francisco's Famous Burlesque Troupe, and with every other local artist who tickles her peculiar funny bone. Whether it's sucking bloody brains in a zombie revue or acting as a misanthropic stage mother in a semi-autobiographical noir carnival act, Ramsey shimmies a fine line between high class and low rent, imbuing every cameo with impeccable timing, unimpeachable phrasing, and an unimaginable gutter mouth."
www.kittykeys.com

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Holiday Trunk Show/sale/event- djs- local artists, brunch, cocktails- SUNDAY during the day!

annie — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:50:09 GMT

12 Galaxies
2565 Mission Street @ 22nd
San Francisco, CA . 94110
415-970-9777
info@12galaxies.com

Sunday, December 11th 12-5
dj's, brunch, cocktails
FREE

WHY SHOP AT THE MALL WHEN YOU CAN SHOP AT THE BAR.

Rather than wait in line for brunch at your local breakfast haunt, come to the 12 Galaxies where you can indulge in bruch, cocktails and shopping with over 30 local designers for men and women. Rock Candy will be showcasing her latest rock and roll jewels, Cadence Clothing fashioning all cool messengers, new fall dresses from PorkChop and Nooworks, one of a kind panties from Boi-oi-oing and those naughty aprons from Betty Croaker. Or if you're not in the mood to shop stop by Leslita and get that eyebrow waxing you've been meaning to, or get your bangs trimmed in our mini beauty salon! Oh and of course you can do all this while enjoying a pancake breakfast and a Bloody Mary. Could you ask for more?

Rock Candy, SandyRock, Waxing by Leslita, Sugar & Gold , 8MM, Taylor Made It, Brown B., Porkchop,Rock Paper Scissors, Tinc, Delirious Shoes, Yellow Betty Croaker, Crease, Ruby Gallery , Fluffyco, Nooworks, Boi-oi-oing, Yellow Cherry, Heresy Accessories, Mittenmaker, Needled and Pens, Strandid, Jene deSpain, Jacks, Tina's Bags, Bert Bergen, Artist Exchange, how wild is jane, Beyond Beads, Psychic - Nina, State of Mind, Sivananda Yoga, Wicked Things, F.O.W.L. and many more.

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Theremin Lounge- tonight! Project: Pimento

annie — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:38:55 GMT

Project: Pimento
TONIGHT- 12/5/06
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St @ 17th
8:30 pm
FREE (donation to musician)

"From Samuel J. Hoffman to the Beach Boys, from Spellbound to The Day the Earth Stood Still, the Theremin has been used by many bold, experimental musicians throughout pop history to evoke an ethereal, exotic, esoteric mood. Following the lounge revival of the '90s, which included the resurgence of interest in vintage film soundtracks, the Theremin has once again captivated the musical imaginations of a new generation. There was a hit documentary on the tragic life of the odd instrument's creator, Leon Theremin, which also contributed to the renewed awareness and appreciation of the unique "woo-ooo-ooo" sound so many had grown hearing in B sci-fi flicks. The popular alternative art-rock band Portishead was among the first of the new bands to occasionally sample this electronic enigma.

It seemed inevitable that some band sometime was going to employ the Theremin full-time. Finally, the first Theremin-lounge band is here, and man, am I happy!"
www.projectpimento.com

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This weekend-- ESPECIALLY- Andy Menconi's art opening Sunday at the Rite Spot...

annie — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:39:34 GMT

12/3/05

THE FLESHTONES
LOSIN STREAKS
GO GOING GONE GIRLS

@ 12 Galaxies
9:30 pm
$10/12

THE FLESHTONES
Formed in New York City in 1976, the Fleshtones reaped some of the benefits of the city's punk scene although their retro '60s sound shared little common ground with the punks, save Blondie and the Ramones. The Fleshtones recorded their debut for punk guru Marty Thau's Red Star Records in 1978 but when the label folded before its release (it was finally issued by ROIR in 1982 as Blast Off) the band moved to legendary new wave label IRS. The Fleshtones' IRS years were their finest as recording artists, resulting in the Up Front EP (1980, featuring the classic "The Girl from Baltimore") and the albums Roman Gods (1981), Hexbreaker (1983, largely acknowledged as their best album), and Speed Connection (1985). After the IRS deal ended, the Fleshtones continued recording for a number of small labels and have released 16 albums to date. More importantly, the Fleshtones have toured their asses off, and their live shows have established their legend. The band has carried the garage rock torch for almost 30 years now, dishing out its self-proclaimed "Super Rock" to a cult-like following."
WWW.thefleshtones.com

The LOSIN STREAKS
"As easy as the three-chord proto-punk tunes found on Lenny Kaye's classic Nuggets compilation might be to play, too many garage revivalists confuse raw primitivism with outright sloppiness. Not so with the Sacramento-based thugs who make up Th' Losin Streaks, who bring the kind of snarling swagger to their raucous debut that would do their fuzzed-out forebears proud."
Dave Pehling
http://www.the-troublemakers.com/losinstreaks.html

GO-GOING-GONE GIRLS
The Go-Going-Gone Girls are a live act, a sensory experience that defies auditory limits. Oh sure, they sound, but the G4s are holistic practitioners on pink pedestals, transcending form and fashion, time and technology.* Their performances are not just seen and heard, but felt at a visceral—even primal—level. And though this trio of hair-hopping hoofers may worship at the alter of their frolicking forbearers, they are nothing if not au courant. Backed by an all-star four-piece lineup, they deliver a dexterous and distinctive blend of 60's go-go, soul, bubblegum, girl-group, and garage. Hear them sing, wail, scream, harmonize, plead, beg, and shout from atop their totemic pedestals. See them shimmy, shake, twist, dog, monkey, duck, bird, funky chicken, and pony like their ancestors of yore. Smell the musk generated by your fellow audience members as they wiggle, jerk, groove, watusi, peel, hully gully, hand jive, and slop to the ancient rhythms. Taste the sweat on your own lips as you are swept away by the sacred rituals of the mashed potato, the Madison, the hanky panky, the frug, the popcorn, and the bugaloo. Feel the band camelwalk, locomotion, skate, swim, stroll,and hitchhike their way into your heart.

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December 4
Art Opening
Andy Menconi
6:00 pm
@ The Rite Spot Cafe

See a preview of the paintings and drawings at this web link. Also
Andy's AWESOME animation. The secret agent Dan series is incredible.
Andy also won the Move On.org anti Bush ad competition-- this is one
talented mo-fo- you may recognize him from the Acid Cabaret's ACTV
animation short Andy Christ.

Check out art and animation at : http://www.syntheticniche.com/

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Sunday December 4

Holcombe Waller
Meric Long
8:00 pm (early show!)
Café Du Nord
10$

"Somber, haunting and plaintive melodies thread the acoustic alt. folk landscape of Pacific Coast troubadour Holcombe Wallers Troubled Times. While in league with the likes of Devandra Banhart and Damien Rice, his presentation finds him as a bridge between the two. Clay Steakley of Performing Songwriter describes Walkers music as "Morrissey-inspired melodies with a soft, casual delivery caught between Peter Murphy and Jeff Buckely..."
Www.holcombewaller.com

ELECTRO-FOLK? INDIE-FOLK? There is no precise genre for Meric Long's undeniably reflective and intensely personal songs... but his are the songs that draw you in and insist that you listen. While the delivery and feel of Meric's songs is tender, the songs convey an underlining hint of frustration, anger, confusion which makes each song genuine and both from and to the heart. Meric's beautifully sorrowful vocals ride smoothly on intricate finger picking and his skill in song crafting makes 24 year old Meric Long a talent to keep both eyes open for.
Www.myspace.com/mericlong

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See you soon!

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New Years in LA

samo — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:12:56 GMT

DECEMBER 1, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
From the creators of Sea of Dreams,
ANON SALON presents CIRKO SIX ‘06/ NYE
12/31/05 @ the Los Angeles Theatre

This New Year's Eve, San Francisco and LA -based event promoters ANON SALON are expanding on the long running success of their legendary SEA OF DREAMS New Year's Eve LA spectacle with "CIRKO SIX" at the elegant, historic Los Angeles Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.

Anon Salon presents
CirkoSix
New Years Eve

Dec 31, 2005 9pm to 3am
@ the historic
Los Angeles Theater
615 South Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90014

On New Year's Eve 2006...

Explore the Golden Era of the downtown Los Angeles Theatre District, where ornate structures on Broadway once made up the most condensed collection of palace theaters in the world...their glory paying homage to American variety theatre, vaudeville and burlesque. This New Years Eve, join the new Renaissance as Anon Salon brings one of most lavish and historical theatres from this past era back to life with some of LA's most cutting edge burlesque and cirque performers.

Featuring.....

Live on the theatre stage!

The Buxoticas of Lucha Va Voom
Buxom * Exotica * Buxotica

Lucent Dossier
Exo-Vaudeville glAmour Shenanigans

Cirque Berzerk
Cirkus for the MisLed

Live music from
Rosin Coven (Music from the Pagan Lounge, Burning Man)
Gooferman (KloWNifIED Chop-Hop)
Alcyone (Deep Chunky Grooves) w/ Suzanne Sterlingirgin
DMT (Guerilla Audio Science)
Helios Jive (Heliosentric Jazz)

Dancerotica DJ Zones

David Starfire (LABA, Space Island)
Patricio (LABA, Space Island)
Ooah (LABA, BoomBox)
Vordo (Abstrakt, SF)
Les Shill (Church of Wow)

others TBA

InterActive environments created by The Do Lab

Cirk-u-lation Gallery (Arte d' Burlesque)
curated by Mike Russek (6 Degrees Festival, Transport Gallery)

ANON SALON ENCOURAGES YOUR PARTY-CIPATION
Vaudeville/Burlesque/Circus Costumes Encouraged

- Five hours of continuous theatre performance
- Multiple sound stages
- Art Exhibit
- Open air food court

Saturday Dec 31 8pm to 3am
Advance Tickets: $60.00
Tix and info @ www.sodla.com

The Los Angeles Theatre
This baroque-style Louis XIV masterpiece built in 1931 premiered Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. It's stood empty since the 90's, a mausoleum of the glory days waiting to be re-birthed. On New Year's eve we'll fill these golden halls with color and pizzazz befitting its dazzling perfection.

Anon Salon
Known for their over the top multi-media events, over the course of its 15-year existence, ANON SALON has helped redefine West Coast event production by producing hundreds of unique theme parties, theater festivals, art shows and even street fairs for Burning Man fans in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since its debut on NYE 2000 in San Francisco, their annual New Years bacchanalia event has been known as the must-see sleeper event for the in-the-know “cultural creatives”, attracting over 2,000 attendees each year to the sold out San Francisco events and last year’s first LA event.

Links:
www.anonsalon.com
www.losangelestheatre.com
www.luchavavoom.com
www.lucentdossier.com
www.cirqueberzerk.com
www.rosincoven.com
www.gooferman.com
www.alcyonemusic.net
www.dmtmusic.com

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Uni and her Ukelele/Uke Apocalypse tonight- Toshio Hirano Monday FREE

annie — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:39:05 GMT

Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net

11/27
Uni and her Ukelele
Uke Apocalaypse
8:00 pm
free

"Uni and her ukelele joined forces 2 years ago this
Christmas... their mission: write songs with magical
powers overload the senses with glitter and colorful
ribbons and bows become the greatest and most glorious
opening act EVER!!! Create new and improved Christmas
songs and take the unicorns back from the hipsters.
http://www.myspace.com/uniandherukelele
http://www.unicornbread.com/

Kelly McCubbin gets the jump on everything that strikes his fancy from
the 20s, 30s and many other popular decades. An unhealthy obsession
with Cliff Edwards taught him to throw away his 6-stringed devil and
play his favorite tunes on the world's most disarming instrument.
www.ukeapocalypse.com

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11/28
Toshio Hirano
8:00 pm
free

TOSHIO HIRANO was born in Tokyo in the 1950's. Postwar Japan
embraced everything American, including American popular music. As a
teenager he became interested in bluegrass and country music. One of
his first loves was the great John Duffy and The Country Gentleman.
He later became inspired by the Mississippi legend, Jimmie Rodgers.
Toshio learned to play banjo, guitar and mandolin and started a
family band with his brother and cousin, called The Sunny Bluegrass
Boys. He continued playing music through college and then emigrated
to the USA to pursue his love of this music. He has lived in
Atlanta, Nashville, Minneapolis and Austin, Texas. San Francisco has
been his home since 1986 and he plays regularly in cafes and bars
around town. The deep romantic nature of country music, its' tales
of trains and cowboys and broken hearts continues to sustain
Toshio's imagination and art.

"His faithful, respectful renditions of heartbreaking country tunes,
with substantial nods to legends like Jimmie Rodgers, is something
to behold."
Beth Lisick/SF Gate

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Honky/The Barfeeders today @ Bender's 7:00 pm

annie — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:11:49 GMT

11/17
Honky is playing at Bender's (19th and South Van Ness)
Happy Hour with The Barfeeders
$3.00
7:00 pm.

Www.honky.net
Www.myspace.com/honky

Led by ex-Butthole Surfer J.D. Pinkus, with Bobby Ed Landgraf (Godzilla Motor Company, Blowfly) and Kenny Wagner (Sixty Watt Shaman, Halfway To Gone).

"The arrival of Honky comes as a welcome slap in the face of canned music and its robotic consumers. This messed-up, tore-down Texas trio churns out a marvelously basic, dirty, stoner-rock grind, all industrial- strength riffs and delightfully sleaze-slanted lyrics... Honky's dog-eared, dopey brand of rock atmospherics is a propitious reminder of how forceful a simple dose of regressive, scabby rock & roll can be."
L.A. Times

THE BARFEEDERS
Alcohol…Good God…Alcohol is probably responsible for this entire mess. Without alcohol it’s doubtful The Bar Feeders would speak to one another very often. Without alcohol they wouldn’t play so obnoxiously fast .(It’s a little known fact that they do so only to hide the endless mistakes and fuck-ups that invariably materialize as a result of their refusal to perform in a state even remotely resembling sobriety.) Without alcohol they would never have forged that kind of indestructible bond that can only come to be when three judgment impaired musicians get loaded and climb to the top of the Bay Bridge at 2am and spend the rest of the night wondering how the hell to get down. Without alcohol they would surely lack the sufficient social skills to hand out fliers or make friends who would come see them play.
Www.thebarfeeders.com

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ANON SALON's SEA OF DREAMS “CIRKO SIX”

samo — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:28:32 GMT

New Years Eve, Downtown LA

Sea of Dreams returns to Downtown Los Angeles for its second year and presents to you “CirkO Six”. Hosted in the most beautiful and ornate of all the Broadway theaters; the Los Angeles Theater will bring you back in time to the heyday of Hollywood theater productions and the birth of Vaudeville.

http://www.losangelestheatre.com

Burlesque beauties, colorful carnies, flying freaks and every shape, form and manifestation of madness you can imagine will fill your senses as you explore the intimate chasms of Sea of Dreams 2006.

More info and a full line up soon to follow.

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Bonnie's Annual Scorpio Party 11/18

annie — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:08:25 GMT

Host: Bonster Productions
Location: DNA LOUNGE
375 11th Street, San Francisco, CA View Map
When: Friday, November 18, 10:00pm
Cost: $15 per person
Pay Now

The Empress Lady Sugarlove
cordially invites you to enter her Scorpio Sugarland and feast your senses upon its candylicious realms....

The Hard Candy Caverns! The Peppermint Forest! The Chocolate Swamp! The Licorice Lounge! The Gumdrop Pass! Rock Candy Mountain!

In the ICE CREAM CASTLE & GINGERBREAD HOUSE....
Mind-Melting, Booty-funking DJs:
Lorin (bassnectar)
Janaka (dhamaal)
Random Rab (xalex)
Shissla (house of lotus)
Dragonfly (groove garden)
Brother (spaceship gaia)
CB (yoga tai chi)
Smoove (space cowboys)
Shante (soundboutique)
El Papachango (el circo)
WhistleR (love tribe)
Neel N Kizmiaz (lush)
& more!

Burlesque Superstar, Catherine D'Lish (playboy club tour)

Visuals by VJ Luna

Go to artist links @ WWW.BONSTERPRODUCTIONS.COM

Doors open @10pm. Bars stop serving at 2am but start serving again at 6am!!!!!!! The party goes non-stop until you say it's over!!

Buy your $15 advance tickets now!
$20 door w/ costume
$25 door w/o costume
21+ w/ ID

Thank you for your continued love and support of the Scorpio Balls and Bonster Productions!! Also, join the official mailing list on my website for special VIP info and treats!

Love & Blessings,
Bonster xoxo

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Ukeapocalyptica Reveiw Sunday night at the Rite Spot

annie — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:16:37 GMT

Featuring Kelly McCubbin, the Uke of the Apocalypse, Megan Lynch, Chanteuse Extraordinaire, and Amy Zing, The Wrangler of Musical Saw.

Kelly McCubbin gets the jump on everything that strikes his fancy from the 20s, 30s and many other popular decades. An unhealthy obsession with Cliff Edwards spurred him to throw away his 6-stringed devil and play his favorite tunes on the world's most disarming instrument, the ukulele.

Megan Lynch is an instrumentalist. Her instrument is her vocal cords and she will plunk, thrum, hum, warble, yodel and grunt her way through any song that suits her fancy. Her great-grandmother sang in front of a big band and that's something Megan would like to do one day as well.

Amy Zing is our saw-playing ingenue. Stella is the saw. Amy is the girl. Stella has teeth. Amy does, too.

Sunday, October 16, 2005
9:00 PM
Location: The Rite-Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom Street @ 17th
San Fran Freak Show

This event is FREE, and worth every penny!

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Mark Mallman/The Herms/Side on Sound 10/13

annie — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:02:33 GMT

Mark Mallman was my favorite SXSW act last year-- I can't believe he's actually in SF! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Thursday, October 13

Mark Mallman
The Herms
Side on Sound

@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
San Francisco
Www.12galaxies.com
Advance tickets at
Www.virtuous.com

8$
9:00 pm

MARK MALLMAN
Badman recording artist that holds the world record for longest rock
song ever written, the 52.4 hour "Marathon 2".

"Minneapolis' own glam superstar has more heart than Interpol, less
pretense than Franz Ferdinand and a sense of retro that seems entirely
genuine and anything but simple nostalgia."
Www.allmusic.com
Www.markmallman.com

THE HERMS..."They make the familiar sound foreign, they spot out that
reflex mechanism of ours that yearns for nostalgia and they tap it
with a ball-peen hammer, and the sensation feels funny and natural.
The musicians' record collections include the Velvet Underground, the
Wedding Present, the usual suspects, but it's their talent to draw on
these influences without aping anyone in particular: That's what
separates the Herms from nearly every other band digging for gold in
the same long-barren hills of classic influences. Here's a band that
can remind you of great bands, and still be great in its own right."
Nate Cavalieri- SF Weekly
Www.theherms.com

Fronted by Avante-garde film maker, Kean Levreault, Side on Sound has
a rock n' roll edge, with indie hooks. Driving bass lines, cave-man
drums, noisy guitars with sweet undertones, and aggressive vocals
round out songs about living in the big city. "Making Fun of
Prostitutes" and "Plunging Neckline" are the quirky, esthetic, rock n'
roll side of Side on Sound. The shows are more rock than pop. The
band consists of former members of The Cave In's, Delta Song, Corduroy
Confession, and others. Recent shows with The Apes, Sky Pilots and
other local bands have introduced Side On Sound to the San Francisco
scene.
www.myspace.com/sideonsound

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Rosin Coven/Barbez/Zegnotronic Rocket Society 9/23 @ 12 G's

annie — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:17:56 GMT

9/23/05

Rosin Coven
Barbez
Zegnotronic Rocket Society

@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St
Www.12galaxies.com

9:00 pm
$10

ROSIN COVEN
"Imagine, if you will, the raw sexiness of cabaret complemented by moth-eaten aesthetic flourishes -- the operatic purring of a lead chanteuse named Midnight Rose, a gloomy bass jokily overlaid with a whiny vibraphone, and the ominous enchantment of commedia dell'arte puppetry. Naturally, we're describing Rosin Coven, the self-titled "World's Premiere Pagan Lounge Ensemble," the kind of act that has genre dogmatists scratching their heads. An umpteen-piece band full of pale-faced, velvet-clad cool cats playing everything from cello and contrabass to accordion, the group falls on a continuum between Rocky Horror camp and medieval danse macabre. The members of Rosin Coven, a Berkeley-based troupe with a vigorous following, look and sound like well-traveled carnies with formidable heaps of classical training; the roguish ensemble is even easy on the eyes."
- SF Weekly
Www.rosincoven.com

BARBEZ
"As for Barbez's "Strange", wow, I'm not even ready to talk about it yet. One wants to say "Lynchian." The first thing you'll notice is the voice, that otherwordly and wonderfully overstated quality like Antony and the Johnsons, and as with Antony, I'm stuck in the "you just gotta hear this" phase. According to their one-sheet, they're a multi-culti ensemble named for an equally polyglot neighborhood in Paris. Their membership includes a theremin virtuoso, a Russian dancer, and a modified Palm Pilot player. Bob Moog wears a Barbez t-shirt through much of the documentary about him. The operatic peaks are chilling and sublime, a little frightening as well. I feel as if this music may be doing unnatural things in my brain without me realizing it, like acid that takes too long to kick in - you keep eating more and suddenly, you're a gibbering lunatic." -Moistworks
Www.barbez.com

ZEGNOTRONIC ROCKET SOCIETY
"After kidnapping Sauguet, Auric, Poulenc, Cocteau, and Django Reinhardt, the ZRS have retreated to the outer edges of the galaxy.... Through ingeneous manipulation and torture devices and many baguettes - ZRS learned the musical secrets of Parisian swing in the 1930's.... It has been decided by the council that NOW is time to re-enter the Earth's atmopsphere and bestow their musical and artistic findings on the glorious Earth masses...."
Www.myspace.com/zegnotronicrocketsociety
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/zrs/

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Is Acid Cabaret still happening?

ernesto — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:19:10 GMT

Or any other similar events happening in the SF Bay Area?

I am going to be there in the second half of October and I'd be interested to find out about performance/cabaret events similar to Acid Cabaret...

Regards,
_ernesto
http://www.sarezale.com/cabaret.html

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Great photos !!!

cream99 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:50:16 GMT

Such wonderful photos and memories from da passst .... Too bad noBody survived the blasT. No shows and no postings around SF a muchess. Looks like Cabaret is DEAD !! (or...... hibernatin'?)
Fuck, I'm all out of moolah, anyway.

wisp of smoke

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MaNdonna/Duran Duran Duran 7/30 @ 12 Galaxies

annie — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:49:37 GMT

Live band tribute performances to Madonna and Duran Duran!

7/30
Mandonna
Duran Duran Duran
DJ AnSo and Boots
spin 80's music

doors at 8:00 pm
10$ advance/12$ door
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com

Mandonna, "The All-Live, All-Male Tribute to the Material Girl" is undeniably one of the most unique acts coming out of the San Francisco music scene. Featured on Howard Stern and in Maxim Magazine, they are the "must-see" band in SF this year and are drawing record numbers to their shows.

The ensemble is comprised of a tight-knit, well-attired four-piece rhythm section, a handsome and magnetic lead vocalist, and two endearing male backup singers. Mandonna is a cross between The Full Monty and a musical form of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...a wickedly funny tribute act that takes female inspiration to a new level.

"The name pretty much says it all: Mandonna. These fun-loving lads adore the Material Girl, and they're just waiting for you to justify their love. Complete with elaborate costume changes and slutty dance moves, the band's show is an incredibly popular collection of Madonna's greatest hits. Lead singer Mark Edwards is goofy, adorable, and heavily bearded, and his versatile lungs have charmed many a wannabe. The bikini-clad dancers get crazy for you, the band is burnin' up, and audiences generally get into the groove.
SF Weekly

http://www.mandonna.com
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=35151

www.duranduranduran.net/

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a little something for everyone....

annie — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:58:42 GMT

Wednesday, June 15th

Extra Action Marching Band
Dr. Abacus
One Man Banjo
Fight of the Century

12 Galaxies
2565 Mission Street @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
$8
9:00 pm

The Extra Action Marching Band exists in a world between traditional marching band and ecstatic turmoil. This generously-portioned, smartly-attired group of up to 40 performers include a hypnotic drum corps, a smoking horn section, a bullhorn virtuoso, an aggressively friendly pep squadron, and a sultry flag team who, although not famous for their good taste, know how to work the crowd into a high state of horny hilarity with their graceful, in-your-face stunts and dizzying routines. Together the group delivers a deliriously engaging show with an emphasis on torrid rhythm, spontaneous and unrestrained expression, thunderous upheaval, and remote-controlling the collective ass of crowds everywhere. Extra Action: a frightfully charming parade happening anytime, anyplace, anticipated or not!
www.extra-action.com/

"Complete with their own version of the Sesame Street theme, Dr. Abacus is puttin' it down with what we lovingly call cartoon jazz, Zappa jazz or just crazy jazz. Unleashing an unabashedly quirky, flamboyant and caffeinated weird Jazz composite with enough spunk to keep your nervous twitchin' up to speed, this group, armed with their 64-count jumbo box of half-eaten crayons, is refusing to stay in the lines and keep the glue bottles out of their noses."
http://www.dr-abacus.com/

http://www.myspace.com/1manbanjo

Fight of the Century!

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Saturday, June 18

Unsane
Acid King (CD Release)
Blackfire Revelation
Made out of Babies
@ 12 Galaxies
9:00 pm
www.12galaxies.com
$10 advance/$12 door

Unsane touring behind new record "Blood Run".
"NYC noise rock kingpins Unsane bombard the listener with punishing, abrasive music delivered with the subtlety of a head-on car crash. Blood Run administers immeasurable amounts of the band's unequalled combination of blood, guts and violence as vocalist/guitarist Chris Spencer's scraping guitar work and vocal angst is cemented by a pounding rhythm section and domineering air of volatile aggressiveness. Blood Run is a sordid soundtrack for the musical masochist."
www.theunsane.com

Acid King III [Small Stone Records]
"If Small Stone Records is the dealer and Acid King is the drug, then we are the junkies who need the fix. After righteously re-issuing their amazing first full-length album “Busse Woods” (formerly on the now sadly defunct Man’s Ruin label), Small Stone pokes us a with the pitchfork a little harder this time by releasing “III”, and Acid King prove that they still wear the dark crown. The word “heavy” tends to be used with reckless abandon at times, but the weight behind this new disc is immense, threatening and so low-end you can almost hear its belly scraping the ground as it drives by without a helmet or muffler. Lori S. drags those mighty riffs and tortures the E string like it were an ex-lover who needs to be taught a lesson slow and hard. Her haunting vocals sail above the doom patrol of Joey Osborne’s enormous skin pounding, which is the equivalent of getting all five white knuckles in the back of the head repeatedly, while Guy Pinhas holds you down for the beating with bass playing that’s almost too huge and damaging to be contained by stereo speakers. Thick and juicy, like a huge bloody steak topped with magic mushrooms."
Screaming Pen Publications
www.acidking.com

"Imagine taking some Tony Iommi riffs and blending them the likes of early Fu Manchu and MC 5 and having Jose Canseco personally inject it with steroids- during a session of Congress while Mark McGwire cries like a little bitch and Rafael Palmiero pops Viagra. The oddly named Blackfire Revelation call New Orleans home and play a blend of garage metal with distortion thicker than any gumbo you can imagine."
Ecomper.com
www.blackfirerevelation.com

"A storm front of black humor and misanthropy that's something like a heavy-metal take on Todd Solondz's Happiness, the Babies come with moody, paranoiac rock and roll that the band compares to "a sack of hammers, a bologna sandwich, and a hamster on a creaky wheel struggling for sound control." You'll think it's all hyperbole until you experience the twitchy guitars, vocals that grate like metal on concrete, and bullying bass of this bunch. Think the Jesus Lizard with a Y chromosome. Better yet, don't think at all. It'll only slow your reaction time."
-Cleveland Scene (Jason Bracelin)
www.madeoutofbabies.com

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Sunday, June 19
Matinee show

Yard Sale
Lipsey Mountain String Band
FREE!
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
5:00 pm

Bay Area local super group of sorts YARD SALE--a semi-weekly, living room gathering of playing, singing, girl-talk and gossip, in perfect 3 part harmony--features the vocal and instrumental talents of Jill Olson (Red Meat, Stouthearted, Mare Winningham, John Wesley Harding), Mel DeGiovanni (the Buckets, The Donner Party, The Cat
Head's, Mare Winningham, John Wesley Harding) and Denise Funari (Ruby, Sapphire and the Family Jewels, The Widows). They feature $1 "yard sale" items so you can shop while you bop.

PS Yard Sale is one of Annie's favorite SF bands and they will be doing a summer residency-- the third Sunday of each month matinee show! Exciting!

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Sunday, June 19

Koolie Cat
Jessie Deluxe
The Wendy Kroys
The Go Going Gone Girls [Audrey from Beyond Bitch]

@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
9:00 pm
$8.00

SF chick fronted power trio.
http://kooliecat.com/
http://www.myspace.com/kooliecat

Jessie Deluxe** The Trio includes Jessie Deluxe (Vox and Guitar) Tsuzumi Okai (Bass) and Jon Barrysmith (Drums). Once described as Pj Harvey and Brian Eno's Baby.
www.jessiedeluxe.com
www.myspace.com/jessiedeluxe.com

[now this is a review!?!] "A fully self produced labor of love in the most romantic "do-it-yourself" kind of way ..... complete with some of the best drug damaged music I've heard in years!!!!!! Imagine VOM, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS ROXY MUSIC, VELVET UNDERGROUND and DEBRIS all tossed together in a big taco salad with my very own creamy white and lumpy love sauce as the special dressing!!!! Let me tell you about the two hot female vocalists ....... they sing with a nasty, sexy and sultry prick tease style that leaves you licking your fingers after sliding them up your very own butthole!!!!! Yes, this is music to do drugs to and to fuck to!!!!!!"
Maximum Rock and Roll
www.monkeybrains.net/

The Go-Going-Gone Girls are a live act, a sensory experience that defies auditory limits. Oh sure, they sound, but the G4s are holistic practitioners on pink pedestals, transcending form and fashion, time and technology.* Their performances are not just seen and heard, but felt at a visceral—even primal—level. And though this trio of hair-hopping hoofers may worship at the alter of their
frolicking forbearers, they are nothing if not au courant. Backed by an all-star four-piece lineup, they deliver a dexterous and distinctive blend of 60's go-go, soul, bubblegum, girl-group, and garage. Hear them sing, wail, scream, harmonize, plead, beg, and shout from atop their totemic pedestals. See them shimmy, shake, twist, dog, monkey, duck, bird, funky chicken, and pony like their
ancestors of yore. Smell the musk generated by your fellow audience members as they wiggle, jerk, groove, watusi, peel, hully gully, hand jive, and slop to the ancient rhythms. Taste the sweat on your own lips as you are swept away by the sacred rituals of the mashed potato, the Madison, the hanky panky, the frug, the popcorn, and the bugaloo. Feel the band camelwalk, locomotion, skate, swim, stroll,
and hitchhike their way into your heart.

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Extra Action Marching Band/Dr. Abacus/1 man banjo/Fight of the Century 6/15

annie — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:08:09 GMT

Extra Action Marching Band
Dr. Abacus
One Man Banjo
Fight of the Century

Wednesday, June 15th
12 Galaxies 2565 Mission Street @ 22nd
$8
9:00 pm

The Extra Action Marching Band exists in a world between traditional marching band and ecstatic turmoil. This generously-portioned, smartly-attired group of up to 40 performers include a hypnotic drum corps, a smoking horn section, a bullhorn virtuoso, an aggressively friendly pep squadron, and a sultry flag team who, although not famous for their good taste, know how to work the crowd into a high state of horny hilarity with their graceful, in-your-face stunts and dizzying routines. Together the group delivers a deliriously engaging show with an emphasis on torrid rhythm, spontaneous and unrestrained expression, thunderous upheaval, and remote-controlling the collective ass of crowds everywhere. Extra Action: a frightfully charming parade happening anytime, anyplace, anticipated or not!
www.extra-action.com/

"Complete with their own version of the Sesame Street theme, Dr. Abacus is puttin' it down with what we lovingly call cartoon jazz, Zappa jazz or just crazy jazz. Unleashing an unabashedly quirky, flamboyant and caffeinated weird Jazz composite with enough spunk to keep your nervous twitchin' up to speed, this group, armed with their 64-count jumbo box of half-eaten crayons, is refusing to stay in the lines and keep the glue bottles out of their noses."
http://www.dr-abacus.com/

http://www.myspace.com/1manbanjo

Fight of the Century!

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FWD from XAMB--

Extra Action Marching Band - fast acting, strong smelling, luck enhancing music that gets into your knickers and those of your date!

Dr Abacus - playing cartoon music on acid!

One Man Banjo - figure it out!

Fight of the Century - a lil puppet ultraviolence!

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Carpe Diem. This expression is literally translated as 'pluck the day', but more figuratively it commands us to enjoy the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future. But *which* day is it that one is supposed to pluck? Classics scholars, philologists, and
historians are arriving at a consensus that –adjusting for various changes instituted in the Gregorian calendar since the heyday of this expression– that day fast approaches!

In fact, it is this Wednesday, June 15th. Wednesday? Why not pluck a weekend day, the ones God and society have laid out for rest, leisure, solemn mediation, and getting loaded? But that is just the point of this wise aphorism: seize *this* day (June 15), not some future one on which to have fun. I'm not trying to scare you or raise a panic, but there are reasons to believe that waiting till next weekend, or even Thursday, may leave things too late. Don't say I didn't warn you.

And where is it one should look for this crucial –possibly last– opportunity to indulge in pleasure? There is no mystery to this one. The answer is simple: the stylish 12 Galaxies club in San Francisco's vibrant Mission district.

Come out and support our attempt to purchase a tour bus. We need one to demonstrate the magic of the Bay Area and announce its supremacy in less culturally fecund parts of this continent. We're heading to Southern California at the end of this month to play with David Byrne at the Hollywood Bowl and then in San Diego, as well as our own gigs in both cities. We're also still planning to travel east in July-August to play in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Boston, Providence, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, and DC. We've got many great dates booked already and hopefully a few more to fill out the tour.

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The Cuts Tonight!

annie — Thu, 26 May 2005 21:24:31 GMT

Thursday, May 26
The Cuts
The Foxx [Ex Rondelles]
Sam Keener
DJ Fancy Dan
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
doors at 8:00
show at 9:00
$8.00

"Pardon the embarrassingly corny shorthand, but Oakland's The Cuts (who astonished an unsuspecting crowd at Beerland) came off like the Darkness if they worshipped Steppenwolf instead of Queen, i.e., if they were punk record collector dudes who had no patience for
bombastic arena-rock choruses or hooks. Mutton-chop falsetto vocals, twisted stop-start rhythms, concisely squalling guitar solos, whew!"
Charles Aaron, Music Editor, SPIN - May 2004
www.thecuts.com

"If the early ABBA had decided to produce 50's rock covers backed by the young Redd Kross, The Foxx would no doubt want to open for them. If Tommy James and the boys from Mud got together with Connie Francis, the girls of Heart, and Billy Childish, and they all dressed up accordingly, it might be a little something like this. The Foxx credits many influences; among them the aforementioned.
Describing the Foxx is like describing the Great Pyramids (they must be seen to be beheld), but herein lies a brief but encompassing description of those musical artists which have inspired this group to sally forth, rock, and ham it up; those before us who have given the Foxx its feet"
www.the-foxx.com

Sam Flax Keener performs music that drifts somewhere between the realms of traditional & psychedelic music. Like being a ghost, growing out of the ground, like mountains & steel & glass. Songs, drones & incantations in the tradition of white billboards & chalk clouds.

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ANDY WON!

annie — Mon, 09 May 2005 19:29:08 GMT

HI!!!

The dear and lovely Andy Menconi (animation expert who helped the acid cabaret with the ACTV (still playing on Cable Access 29 I hear) into's and designs and contributed his lovely Andy Christ animation short to the cause-- won this contest! Please pass this along because it's awesome and important. I thought the music sounded familiar then I saw the closing credits: KING CITY! Check the link out below!

Also, congratulations to Billy and Adrienne Konkel with the birth of the lovely Talia Rose. She's gorgeous!

Annie is Djing Friday at the Attic with Chris Campezi who you might know from the Hemlock, Casanova and his band Chinese Radio. Come on down!

The Acid Cabaret misses and loves you! Don't be strange(rs) and we won't either!

xo ASS CAB

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President Bush has now embraced massive benefit cuts in order to privatize Social Security. Today, we're announcing the winner of Bush in 30 Years—a grassroots contest to find the best online animation to explain the Republicans' Social Security scam. Watch the winning entry and pass it on to your friends.

Click Here
Dear MoveOn member,
In his nationally-televised prime time press conference, George W. Bush showed his cards—embracing massive cuts in Social Security benefits as part and parcel of Social Security privatization. Today, we're announcing the winner of Bush in 30 Years—a grassroots contest to find the best Macromedia Flash animation or game that explains the Republicans' Social Security scam.

Lots of brilliant Flash animators worked long and hard, and they created hilarious, bold entries. More than 140,000 MoveOn members voted to decide the ten finalists. Our panel of celebrity judges—actor John Cusack, comedian and radio host Al Franken, columnist Arianna Huffington, filmmaker Richard Linklater, and animator Aaron McGruder—chose a winner.

And the winner is..."If it ain't broke, don't privatize it!" by Andy Menconi of San Francisco, California. Both the judges and MoveOn members picked "If it ain't broke" as their favorite—a popular and critical smash hit!

See the winning entry in our Bush in 30 Years contest at:

http://www.bushin30years.org/winner.html?id=5498-3428705-cqDcr2zsGGH34mWUBPHajg&t=2

With subtle humor and clean visuals, "If it ain't broke" makes things clear: Bush's private accounts will do nothing to strengthen Social Security. Instead, they'll cut benefits and add trillions in new debt, all to gamble on Wall Street with your retirement savings.

With your help, this animation could inspire tens of thousands of new people to join the fight to protect Social Security. Help get your friends, family, and co-workers involved by passing along this winning animation today.

Watch the winner, then pass it along by clicking here:

http://www.bushin30years.org/winner.html?id=5498-3428705-cqDcr2zsGGH34mWUBPHajg&t=3

Later this week, we'll advertise the winner on The New York Times website and MySpace.com, a popular youth website, reaching millions of people who are making up their minds about Social Security privatization. You can help run those ads by donating at the link above.

The president has been campaigning hard to privatize Social Security since his State of the Union address in January. That's nearly four months of non-stop, election-style campaigning. Yet everywhere the president goes, the poll numbers show that the public widely disapproves of his proposal to cut benefits and privatize Social Security. This looks like a win in the works—but we need to stay vigilant.

Thanks for all that you do.

Sincerely,

–Laura, Noah, Eli, Tom and the MoveOn PAC Team
Monday, May 9th, 2005

P.S. Please contribute to help pay for the web ads at:

https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/bi30y/?id=5498-3428705-cqDcr2zsGGH34mWUBPHajg&t=4

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Sunday is the new Friday

annie — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:52:18 GMT

Hi friends-- Two shows I am responsible for that I think you might enjoy this Sunday... come out?

PS. There is a really good happy hour show @ the Hemlock Saturday @ 6:00 pm
If you haven't heard of the band Big Business-- you should really look into it.

xo annie

5/1
Scott Young [Red Meat]
Toshio Hirano
EARLY SHOW
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net
5:00/$5.00

Scott was born into an Ozark family with a strong tradition of country and gospel music. At 13, Scott moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where his father was his school's choir and band teacher. In addition to his fine singing and playing, Scott is the composer of most of Red Meat's repertoire and has written some of the finest country songs ever heard. His harmony arrangements and vocal stylings are inspired by a wide range of influences, from Brian Wilson to Johnny Mercer to Willie Nelson.

"...a prolific songwriter with a penchant for old-fashioned country rhythms and goofy novelty-song twists..."

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TOSHIO HIRANO was born in Tokyo in the 1950's. Postwar Japan embraced everything American, including American popular music. As a teenager he became interested in bluegrass and country music. One of his first loves was the great John Duffy and The Country Gentleman. He later became inspired by the Mississippi legend, Jimmie Rodgers. Toshio learned to play banjo, guitar and mandolin and started a family band with his brother and cousin, called The Sunny Bluegrass Boys. He continued playing music through college and then emigrated to the USA to pursue his love of this music. He has lived in Atlanta, Nashville, Minneapolis and Austin, Texas. San Francisco has been his home since 1986 and he plays regularly in cafes and bars around town. The deep romantic nature of country music, its' tales of trains and cowboys and broken hearts continues to sustain Toshio's imagination and art.

"His faithful, respectful renditions of heartbreaking country tunes, with substantial nods to legends like Jimmie Rodgers, is something to behold."
Beth Lisick/SF Gate

AND later that night...

Viva Voce [Portland]
Argo [Seattle]
Nik Freitas and the Headgates
Sunday, May 1st
9:00 pm
$7.00
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com

"Husband and wife team Kevin and Anita Robinson make bottom-heavy, dreamy tunes as Portland, Oregon duo Viva Voce, and they clearly enjoy themselves in the studio. On The Heat Can Melt Your Brain, the couple's third, they color their whispery melodies, club-ready grooves and understated social criticisms, with fuzzy distortions, washed-out backup vocals and a slew of other mixing board tricks. Along the way, the band sounds psychedelic and electronic (although they play instruments). There's an element of portent lurking within the songs, as the two sing in stark monotones that turn seemingly hopeful lines like "So happy today's the day, things will turn around," icy and ironic. And with songs (and song titles) like "Mixtape=Love," which casts inarticulate lovers failing to communicate, and "Free Nude Celebs," which is ultimately about hopelessness and loneliness, it seems that Viva Voce (Italian for "by word of mouth") achieve something greater than simple space jams: sharp, smart stoner rock."
(BENJAMIN FRIEDLAND)
www.rollingstone.com
www.vivavoce.com

"After childhoods spent playing music together, and a couple of years playing out in Seattle in relative obscurity, local four-piece Argo are talented multi-instrumentalists (who rotate around the stage with Sebadoh-like intensity) ready to headline. With musical styles as diverse as each band member's talents, Argo can take you from melodic indie pop to brainy jazz-influenced instrumentals to intense rock refrains, with a sophistication beyond their young years and a continuity maintained throughout. And now, they're ready to enchant all of you."
The Stranger/Seattle
www.argotheband.com

On his second album, former Thrasher shutterbug Nik Freitas builds off of the singer/ songwriter approach that fueled his well-received 2001 debut Here's Laughing at You. At its core, Heavy Mellow is an easily likable, thoughtfully crafted disc of late-era Beatles-inspired pop. And save for the lead guitar chores handled by his childhood friend Aaron Estes, the Visalia, California-bred Freitas does the rest. It's an impressive song cycle that benefits from soulful keyboard hooks and introspective lyrics. "Be Honest" channels classic Badfinger, "Cheaters" is fine indie-folk, and "Sentimental Life" is a pensive piano ballad for the ages. At just nine tunes, some could find fault with the brevity of Heavy Mellow, but it's a vital album from start to finish. JOHN D. LUERSSEN
www.rollingstone.com
www.nikfreitas.com

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Damon and Naomi with Kurihara/Colossel Yes/Chris Stroffolino/Hudson Bell TONIGHT!!!

annie — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:55:24 GMT

Damon and Naomi with Kurihara
Wednesday, April 27
San Francisco, CA
with Colossal Yes; Chris Stroffolino (spoken word)
and Hudson Bell
10$/12$ advance
@ 12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission Street @ 22nd
9:00 pm

"DAMON AND NAOMI met in Boston's Galaxie 500, kick-starting a whole school of Velvet Underground derived melancholia in the late 80's. Subsequently exploring the limits of riff-heavy psychedelia with Magic Hour, they've recorded extensively as a duo in late 60's West Coast singer-songwriter mode, and are lynchpins of an international community of like-minded musicians. The Earth Is Blue rekindles their partnership with the guitarist Michio Kurihara, of the Japanese acid-folk band Ghost, whose sensitive leads thread sinewy paths through unashamedly pretty songs..."
London Times
www.damonandnaomi.com

The COLOSSAL YES is one Utrillo W. Kushner. A positive force perhaps better known as the drum-clobbering spectacle behind local sweat mongers Comets on Fire, his unaccompanied ivory-tickling ways couldn't be more divergent from the band's extended blowouts. Inspired by the subdued sounds of early 70s piano-bound songwriters,
Kushner's gossamery meditations could be likened to the fragile songs of Robert Wyatt or maybe even Elton John's more delicate ballads. But if comparisons must be made, Kushner would probably prefer to first submit the progressive soft rock epics of heroes Procol Harum as his divine inspiration.

CHRIS STROFFOLINO [The Silver Jews/Continuous Peasant] is the author of three books of poetry, including Speculative Primitive (2004), as well as several chapbooks, most recently Scratch Vocals (2003). He has also published a collection of essays titled Spin Cycle (2001). Stroffolino lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area, and “fronts” the band Continuous Peasant, whose album Exile in Babyville was recently released on Good Forks.

[HUDSON BELL's music] is a long, languid ride through a murky Mississippi swamp. Humidity sticks skin to air, flies land on parched tongues, mosquitoes sting bare feet as the sun beats down upon gazing eyes that lazily stare up into the sky. Across the way, beyond the dense forest, a factory billows black soot out into the sky where the swamp ends..."
www.hudsonbell.com

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Filth V Fury II

annie — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:09:30 GMT

FWD: from Dave Pehling (dj Sasquatch Boracho)

Friends and countrymen,

After the rousing success of the first pairing that pitted the XXX-rated R&B spoogefest of Lord Nasty and his Seekers of Perversion against the burly Hammer of the Gods mayhem delivered by Heavy Hindenburg, it was only a matter of time before we up and did it again:

RAWK GODZ vs. FILTHY FUNK II

Truly a battle for the ages. In this corner, we have genius Led Zeppelin reincarnation Heavy Hindenburg (featuring former and current members of Alice Donut, Carlos!, Victims Family and Fields of Gaffney) bring their uncanny simulation of the drunken, Hobbit-loving rawk Vikings at the height of their '70s prowess.

Challenging these mighty titans of the power chord, we have the Bay Area's own Blowfly for the new millennium: filthy funkateers Lord Nasty and the Seekers of Perversion lay down lascivious licks and porn-style odes to bustin' nuts on big butts. The good Lord makes 2 Live Crew's Luke Campbell sound like Andy Griffith. Don't believe me? Check out this write up from the SF Weekly:

http://music.sfweekly.com/issues/2005-04-13/music/music.html

Yours truly, Sasquatch Borracho, will bring a deadly mix of hard rock, porno funk and nasty rap (including the devastating dirty Miami Bass medley/Cheech & Chong segue) to the turntables before and between bands. Besides which, its my ding-dang birthday. Don't believe me? Take a look at my driver's license. The only present I ask for is your presence, and since you've probably been blowing these emails off for the better part of two or three years, it's high time you helped a pal out in his old age, hmmmmm? Tell your friends. Tell your mom. Tell your mom's friends...

The Skinny:

What? The Filth and the Fury II: Flesh Hammers of the Godz
Featuring Heavy Hindenburg, Lord Nasty and his Seekers of Perversion
and a raunch-meets-rock selection from Sasquatch Borracho
Where? 12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission St. near 22nd, SF
When? Thursday, April 21st at 9pm
Why? Thursday is the new Friday and Saturday combined. And it will rule.
Huh? It's $7 holmes. A little steeper yes, but we're moving up in the world and gots kids to feed.

Cheers,

Sasquatch Borracho

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Brandi Shearer/Jorane/Vivian Linden/Linda Moody Wed @ 12 Galaxies

annie — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:46:41 GMT

4/13

Brandi Shearer
Jorane
Vivian Linden
Linda Moody [Excuses for Skipping]
Wed, April 13
@ 12 Galaxies, San Francisco
www.12galaxies.com
9:00 pm
$7.00

"Armed with a rich and resonant voice that is dynamic, declarative and willful, Shearers’ great gift as a vocalist is that she knows how to take the corners; vowels glide in impossible angles, consonants are punctuated by sultry purrs and stabs, and the effects are, to say the least, riveting."
Alex Green- Discoveries Magazine
www.brandishearer.com

Categorizing Jorane (pronounced Jo-ran) and her music is not an easy task because of the unique way this talented artist expresses voice and instrument to create a sound that is distinctively her own. Jorane's haunting voice and soulful playing of her cello captivates her audience by weaving a sonic dreamscape.
www.jorane.com

Vivian Linden [Seattle]: Whiskey-soaked-heartbreak.
www.vivianlinden.com

Linda Moody [Excuses for Skipping] has come along with music cozy enough to trigger memories of lost loves, late-night road trips, and forgotten Sundays. It's the perfect dream pop for your crush's mix tape.
www.excusesforskipping.com

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Knife and Fork CD release party TONIGHT!

annie — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:34:23 GMT

Knife and Fork CD release party
Friday, March 25
@ 12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
$8.00
with The Enablers
and Little Fuzzy

KNIFE AND FORK
Eric Drew Feldman has played with everyone from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Snakefinger, The Residents and Pere Ubu to the Pixies, Frank Black and PJ Harvey. He has also produced records by Frank Black, dEUS, Tripping Daisy, Sparklehorse, The Polyphonic Spree, and Charlotte Hatherley (of Ash) amongst others. kNIFE & fORK marks the first time he has ventured out with his own project. Laurie Hall is known mostly as bassist/vocalist/ songwriter with San Francisco underground band Ovarian Trolley, and currently in the female vocal group, The Hallflowers. In the Fall of 2004 kNIFE & fORK toured the U.S. and U.K. supporting PJ Harvey for the release of the debut album Miserycord.

"Knife & Fork is music from a deep place, from the groin, from the belly, from behind a cage of ribs. It's that truckstop cum cabaret on that road that stretches between Warsaw and Moscow; where among the slow dancers passes the ghost of behemoth. Bones rattle on yak skins while the melancholic female figure onstage sings low and sad without shedding so much as a single tear. Others sit in the shadows at their tables, transfixed, listening. They come every night to be soothed by her blue voice, tapping their fingers to the drum and the bell." - Frank Black

THE ENABLERS
On guitar and behind the mixing board Joe Goldring, has collaborated with Swans, Toiling Midgets, and Doug Scharin of June of ’44 under the moniker Out in Worship, as well as with Neurosis’ Steve Von Till’s solo projects. Kevin Thomson, veteran of Timco and Nice Strong Arm, has been playing and touring for twenty years and with his own projects and has been a writing partner with Goldring for ten of those years collaborating on Morning Champ, Touched by a Janitor, and now Enablers. Yuma Joe Byrnes on drums has lent his unique take on the trapset to Tarnation, Broken Horse and others. Pete Simonelli has been continually writing and publishing his efforts in underground literary journals for years and now brings his poems to the table for Enablers.
http://neurotrecordings.com/artists/enablers/

LITTLE FUZZY
From the ashes of seminal San Franciso Mission band Fantasy, Little Fuzzy formed in Fall 2001 and has been playing and recording steadily since then, leading to the April 2004 release of it's self-titled debut. The band plays everything from shiny pop gems to rock anthems, but all slightly askew and faintly echoing everything from Prince to T-Rex, from The Beatles to MC5, from the Beach Boys to DEVO, from Beck to the Kinks, and has performed at the Make-Out Room, El Rio, The Hemlock tavern, The Bottom of the Hill, The Adobe Bookshop, The Hush-hush, Cafe Fais Do-Do in LA, and the Fillmore, where they opened for the Monkees...

"...this SF quartet (whose membership includes former members of Mission neighborhood music vets Fantasy) bust out a highspirited, funky breakdown complete with much lighthearted silliness in lyrics and song titles. Sorta reminiscent of '70s Sunday morning variety show staples the Bugaloos or the Banana Splits but with a faux Prince falsetto."
Aquarius Records
www.littlefuzzymusic.com

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Fucking Champs/Comets on Fire/Oneida/Black Mountain Friday

annie — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:03:19 GMT

3/18
Fucking Champs
Comets on Fire
Oneida
Black Mountain
www.12galaxies.com
show at 9:30
10$ advanced [recommended] and at the door (www.virtuous.com)

"...within their distinctive sound, variety abounds on "V", from "I Am The Album Cover" which channels the techno-blues rockisms of late- period ZZ Top, to the Frippertronics-ish-isms elsewhere. There's also a bit of electronic tunesmithery that's so much better than anything they did in their collaboration with Trans Am. But that's no big stretch for this band, and for the most part "V" is heavy, rockin' Champs-at-their-best stuff, the trio dealing out rapid, tense riffing, no-denying-it's-metal-lic sheets of sound, and hard hitting drum filigree left right and center."
Aquarius
www.thefuckingchamps.com

"...squarely into the psychedelic garage punk realm, shoulder to shoulder with the likes of 60's heavies Blue Cheer, and modern-day Japanese distortion fiends High Rise. Your friends from college will understand better if you compare Comets to Monster Magnet -- they channel the same sort of MC5-ish ass-kickin' and Hawkwind-like space-outin'."
Aquarius
http://www.cometsonfire.com/

"Nobody seems able to agree on just who they sound like when they rock this way, though the great MC5 are frequently mentioned. There's also a clear parallel to the New York Dolls, given that these kids are also flamboyant characters who play noisy damaged rock in New York. They've got a bit in common with the 13th Floor Elevators, who they've been known to cover. The thing is, you could compare Oneida to just about anyone loud, violent, and a bit perverse -- Devo, The Birthday Party, The Stooges, Girls Against Boys -- and you'd be right on."
All Music
www.enemyhogs.com

"Black Mountain's recipe reeks of early Sabbath on an Appalachian psychedelic tip. The songs are intricate and cinematic . . . urgent and pleading at times . . . somber and forlorn in others. On the surface their influences dominate but underneath we hear complicated guitar parts and structure that lead us to believe that these Canucks know what they're doing. A bar band for the drug set and the reefer addicts . . . bohemian honky tonk for those short on love rather then luck."
Matt Evans/Sonic Boom Records
www.blackmountainarmy.com
www.myspace.com/blackmountain

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dance for veggie power- APHRODESIA @ ELBO ROOM THIS FRIDAY

DaviD SatoRi — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:52:17 GMT

Aphrodesia’s “Veggie Oil Power Fundraiser” Friday, March 11 at the Elbo Room, San Francisco

Aphrodesia, the explosive San Francisco-based afrobeat ensemble that made national headlines last summer by driving cross country in a vegetable oil-powered bus as part of the “Just Vote Tour”, will headline a “Veggie Oil Power Fundraiser” on March 11 at the Elbo Room in San Francisco. All the band’s proceeds from the show will go towards its new vegetable oil powered bus, a converted city transit bus from Santa Clarita, California.

Born in San Francisco a little over two years ago, the 11-member Aphrodesia has won national accolades both for its music and its commitment to social activism. The East Bay Express picked the band’s first CD, “Shackrobeat Vol. 1”, as one of its top albums of 2003, and the band’s live performances have earned raves everywhere from the pages of Global Rhythm Magazine to Jambase.com. Meanwhile, the band’s “Just Vote Tour”, a nationwide voter registration-themed tour focusing primarily on swing states and landing in New York City during the Republican National Convention, deposited the band on the cover of USA Today, and the Bay Area-based Common Ground Magazine featured the band on its cover because of its commitment to driving on alternative fuel.

The band’s habit of driving in a vegetable oil-powered vehicle is more than just window dressing. “We want to walk the walk as well as talk the talk,” explains founder and bassist Ezra Gale. “We can’t be anti-war and pro-environment and drive around in a big petroleum-fueled tour bus,” he adds.

Aphrodesia’s old bus, a converted airport shuttle bus nicknamed the “Votemobile” for the cross-country ‘Just Vote Tour’, carried the band at least 10,000 miles solely on vegetable oil. The band plans to continue that tradition in its new bus, which is equipped with 300-gallon vegetable oil tanks and is considerably better suited to carrying a band of Aphrodesia’s size. To help pay the costs of the new bus and of converting it to run on vegetable oil, the band is throwing a “Veggie Oil Power Fundraiser” at the Elbo Room on March 11, with all proceeds going towards the cost of the new bus.

“Veggie Oil Power Fundraiser” featuring Aphrodesia with DJ Oaty Love, Friday, March 11, at the Elbo Room, 647 Valencia,, SF, (415) 552-7788, 10PM- 2 AM; $7-$20 donation requested.

Aphrodesia contact- Ezra Gale (415) 205-3914; David Sartore (415) 867-0957

Aphrodesia- www.aphrodesia.org

Elbo Room- www.elbo.com

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A Dr. Abacus Valentine's Day with special guest Midnight Rose (members of Rosin Coven)

annie — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:26:37 GMT

Yes, it's true.

At the Rite Spot
Valentine's Day
9:00 pm
Free.

Come alone, come with your friends or come with your man or woman. It's not like *that*.

2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net

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Benefit for Anthony Bonet Friday- Red Meat/Hammerdown Turpentine/Jeffrey Luck Lucas

annie — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:52:34 GMT

Friday, February 4

Benefit for Anthony Bonet
@ Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, CA
www.bottomofthehill.com
with Red Meat, Hammerdown Turpentine
and Jeffrey Luck Lucas
10 pm
$8

Anthony Bonet, former DJ @ KALX, booking assistant at Bottom of the Hill and front man about town suffered a massive anuerism followed by about 8 strokes, brain surgery and lost blood flow to his legs for so long he'll never walk again. He is uninsured.

Here is a website for more information, but please attend this show! Jeffrey Luck Lucas and The Sorrows play first at 10:00 pm.

http://www.asinglestep.org/anthonybonet.htm

"Red Meat plays country music, pure and simple. Not the radio-friendly pop of the Dixie Chicks or the self-conscious, languid country rock of Wilco, but a more vintage version that involves a lot of pickin' and a-grinnin'-not to mention virtuoso musicianship on mandolin, fiddle, and pedal-steel guitar. You won't hear any power chords; the band borrows its sound from more traditional realms of American music: bluegrass, swing, folk, gospel. Musically, the sound is upbeat and melodic and slightly on the retro side, but
lyrically, it's loaded with modern urban humor."
Gina Arnold
www.redmeat.net

"Hammerdown Turpentine inhabit a land where the water tastes like Jim Beam and the skies are not cloudy all day. Your body has never shook so hard to the sound of 31 acoustic strings: guitar/banjo/bass/fiddle all soaring over a blanket of electric Wurlitzer piano and brushed small-kit motion. Add to this a front man who dishes it out like David Yow with a sturdier belt and you have the most mind expanding group to ever leave the screen door open. Pre-war, punked out and face down in the mud..."
Blue Bus Records
www.hammerdownturpentine.com

"Think along the lines of Richard Buckner, Will Oldham, Willard Grant Conspiracy, or Townes Van Zandt if he'd have been produced by Daniel Lanois. Dark, dreamy, cinematic epics that are genuinely intoxicating..."
David Morrison Gilded Palace of Sin UK
www.jeffreylucklucas.com

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Project Pimento

annie — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:55:13 GMT

Project: Pimento Tonight!
@ the Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net
9:00 pm
FREE

There's only one theremin lounge band, and that's Project: Pimento! Get out your cocktail shakers and prepare to party in sophistocated style. Project: Pimento is a five-piece band from San Francisco,
with a repertoire of toe-tapping lounge favorites from the 40s, 50s, and 60s... all with a space-age twist.
www.projectpimento.com

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Tsunami Fundraiser with Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Jolie Holland and more....

annie — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:27:17 GMT

Wed January 12
8:00 pm
bands and musicians playing 3 songs each
10$-$50 donation
100% of donated money is going to
the international red cross tsunami disaster fund
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission Street @ 22nd
San Francisco, Ca
www.12galaxies.com

8:15
Metal Circus
8:40
Call and Response
9:00
Tom Heyman (Court and Spark)
9:20
Dave Gleason, Mike Therieau and Pat Johnson
9:40
Jeffrey Luck Lucas (ex-Morlocks/Heaveners)
10:00
Bart Davenport (ex- Loved Ones/Kinetics)
10:20
Mark Eitzel (American Music Club)
10:40
Sonny Smith
11:00
Jolie Holland
11:20
Loquat
11:40
The Bellyachers
12:00
the Herms

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annie — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:45:24 GMT

FANDANGO VILLAGE XMAS PARTY
DECEMBER 22 @ 12 GALAXIES!
8:00 PM FREE
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
San Francisco

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
MYSTERIOUS D AND ADRIAN (GUILTY/BOOTIE)
DOING A MASH UP SET FROM 12:00-2:00!

DRINK SPECIALS ---- GOOD TIMES
Shannon 8-9; Kylen 9-10; Liz 10-11;
Steve 11-12; Mys D and Adrian 12-2

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Merry Christmas Motherfu--ers!!

I know a lot of you may well be on your way out of town to fulfill your holiday familial obligations, but if you haven't left yet or better still have decided to give your parents the finger and blow off the fam altogether in favor of a three-day eggnog bender, here's a fine way to start off your weekend with a hellafied hangover:

BRONSON DOES THE HOLIDAZE

I dealt with something of a dilemma at first on how to approach the yuletide edition of Bronson; let's face it, there ain't a ton of punk or metal Xmas songs out there (though I will have King Diamond's "No Presents For Christmas" onhand, don't worry). So the deal is this: interspersed with a lot of Slayer, Sabbath, Stooges will be the odd winter wonderland anthem from Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole or Willie Nelson and anything else I can dig up that alludes to the business of itty bitty Baby Jesus. Christmas Carols vs. Slaytanic Metal and Debaucherous Punk, you dig? Can you get to that?

Holiday Bronson
Thursday, Dec. 23rd, 9:30pm
The luxurious Casanova Lounge
527 Valencia betwixt 16th and 17th in the Mission, SF
FREE!

Come one come all. Frankincense and myrrh will be provided (yeah right). And joy be unto you...

Sas B
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December 23
My Way My Love (File 13 Records-- Japan)
Pigeon (Absolutely Kosher)
Meric Long (no lable this kid is awesome!)
@ 12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
7$

"...'Sonic Youth' meets 'The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion' somewhere in the air over a blacked out city. Parachuting from the plane comes 'My Way My Love' to free us from corporate programming and pre-fab bands and songs."
Better Propaganda

"Their layers of noise and clanking beats are reminiscent of Black Dice with elements of a fucked-up Sonic Youth...lyrics, which are sung in English, perfectly complement the music."
DIW Magazine
www.mywaymylove.com

"Many consider the Pixies the Platonic ideal of a certain hardcore-pop style, of which copious transitory doppelgangers are merely cast shadows. But for every gross of mediocre Pixies imitators, there's a band that builds upon their legacy by appending their own specific sensibility to it. It's prudent to note that these echoes are not usually the result of blatant imitation; rather, they're born from a genuine love and admiration for a work that inflamed the imaginations of so many people.
All art is some permutation of, or comment upon, the art its creator has internalized; what's crucial is that something is added to the mix. Without the Pixies' ascendancy, we wouldn't have the Nirvana we know. The same goes for Mclusky, who impressed their own distinct thumbprint and range of other influences on the Pixies' style. And we probably wouldn't have Pidgeon's excellent marriage of boy/girl singing, shredded screaming, indie-pop, and blistering thrashcore-- the mansion they've built upon the foundation the Pixies laid by assimilating their own influences into a unique style."
Pitchfork Media
www.pigeonsf.com

"We might stretch comparisons to Elliott Smith or Simon and Garfunkel when we hear such impeccable guitar work and such longing, tender lyrics. Pretty much as lush as the singer-songwriter thing gets. A rarity at the local level, even in a talent-rich city like San Francisco."
http://www.theglut.com/issue5/mericlong.html
www.mericlong.com

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12/26
Bart Davenport
Sam Flax Keener
Willow Willow
Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St. @17th
San Francisco, CA
Dinner Monday-Friday 6-11, Saturday 7-11
and the kitchen is closed on Sundays.
www.ritespotcafe.net
8:00 pm
$5.00

"Bart Davenport (AKA the Mayor of the East Bay) is a West Coast
institution. The Berkeley native spent the late 80s fronting various
mod-revival groups until putting together seminal Bay Area
garage/blues act The Loved Ones. Touring relentlessly, the band
developed a devoted Northern Soul fan base throughout the US and
Europe (where they remain a jukebox favorite) before calling it
quits in the mid 90s. Like so many before him, BD moved from garage
blues to blue-eyed soul and formed the Kinetics, one of San
Francisco's most popular late-90s bands."
Antena Farms
www.bartdavenport.com

Sam Flax Keener performs music that drifts somewhere between the
realms of traditional & psychedelic music. Like being a ghost,
growing out of the ground, like mountains & steel & glass. Songs,
drones & incantations in the tradition of white billboards & chalk
clouds.

"Recently signed by Mod Lang Records, an offshoot of the taste-
defining Berkeley record store, they are recording a 7" with Greg
Loiacano (Motherhips) to be released soon, followed by a full length
CD. Local names are already lining up to contribute to the tracks,
sometimes in kind for help Willow Willow have lent on the recordings
of others, for instance the heart-melting backing vocals on Penelope
Houston's latest EP, Snap Shot. Melodically reminiscent of the
gentler side of Lennon & McCartney."
http://www.performermag.com/wc_profile.php?id=263

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12/27
Toshio Hirano!
Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St. @17th
San Francisco, CA
Dinner Monday-Friday 6-11, Saturday 7-11
and the kitchen is closed on Sundays.
www.ritespotcafe.net
9:00 pm
FREE (donation to musician)

Toshio was born in Tokyo in the 1950's. Postwar Japan embraced
everything American, including American popular music. As a teenager
he became interested in bluegrass and country music. One of his
first loves was the great John Duffy and The Country Gentleman. He
later became inspired by the Mississippi legend, Jimmie Rodgers.
Toshio learned to play banjo, guitar and mandolin and started a
family band with his brother and cousin, called The Sunny Bluegrass
Boys. He continued playing music through college and then emigrated
to the USA to pursue his love of this music. He has lived in
Atlanta, Nashville, Minneapolis and Austin, Texas. San Francisco has
been his home since 1986 and he plays regularly in cafes and bars
around town. The deep romantic nature of country music, its' tales
of trains and cowboys and broken hearts continues to sustain
Toshio's imagination and art.

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep
underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest live and
on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of
speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by
the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack
Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts
across all performance disciplines and
incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous,
starkly beautiful, supremely talented and
horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and
intelligible writing that this type of event is
probably not for the faint at heart or the politically
correct.

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Fandango Village Holiday Blow Out December 22

annie — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:03:39 GMT

Home of the Sloburn, Motown, Bindi, Dickface,
Church of Funk, Acid Cabaret, Butterzone,
Freakutopia, the Pagan Lounge,
the Ramp of Death, Hotdog Sandwich
and so so so much more!

FANDANGO VILLAGE XMAS PARTY
DECEMBER 22 @ 12 GALAXIES!
8:00 PM FREE
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
San Francisco

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
MYSTERIOUS D AND ADRIAN (GUILTY/BOOTIE)
DOING A MASH UP SET FROM 12:00-2:00!

DRINK SPECIALS ---GOOD TIMES--HOT DJ'S
Shannon 8-9; Kylen 9-10; Liz 10-11;
Steve 11-12; Mys D and Adrian 12-2

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Kitten on the Keys sings naughty XXXMas songs at the Rite Spot Tonight

annie — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:09:51 GMT

12/13-Tonight!
Kitten on the Keys
9:00 pm FREE
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net

"Cute, kicky, irrepressible, irresistible, licentious, lewd, dizzy,
delightful -- that's Kitten on the Keys. It's been a couple of years since the Lollies' utterly go-going-gone-are-her-panties piano player set out on her own with nothing but a toy piano, an accordion, two roller skates, a whip, a ukulele, a pair of stilts, a plethora of custom-made bustles and bustiers, and a steamer trunk full of feather ticklers, colored wigs, and edible pasties. And what a wild and winsome time it's been. Even with the abundance of burlesque and bally in this town, Suzanne Ramsey, as the Kitten is named, is San Francisco's finest ambassador of bada-boom. A veritable one-woman vaudevillian show, she has proven her chops as a sexy chanteuse, sassy comedienne, and gutsy mistress of ceremonies; she has enlivened Burlesquefest in Canada, MCed Tease-O-Rama in Los Angeles, fondled Liberace's ivories in Vegas, and fired imaginations throughout Europe (particularly in France, where they just can't seem to get enough of her). Yet Ramsey still finds the time and energy to perform here at home with the Lollies and San Francisco's Famous Burlesque Troupe, and with every other local artist who tickles her peculiar funny bone. Whether it's sucking bloody brains
in a zombie revue or acting as a misanthropic stage mother in a semi- autobiographical noir carnival act, Ramsey shimmies a fine line between high class and low rent, imbuing every cameo with impeccable timing, unimpeachable phrasing, and an unimaginable gutter mouth."
Silke Tudor
www.kittymusic.com

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December 22

annie — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:14:06 GMT

Hi Fandango-Funk- Acid - Bindi- Rosin- Freak- and What Have You Camps--

December 22nd @ 12 Galaxies-- 8:00 pm FREE

Village Holiday Xmas Party with music provided by Steve Courtney, Ezra, Annie and a few others yet to be named.

Mark you calandars and get yourself there. Dress up or dress down. Playa formal welcome.

Forward to anyone you that you think might want to attend.

www.12galaxies.com

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Boyskout/The Yellow Press/Condo Tonight!

annie — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:30:27 GMT

Boyskout
The Yellow Press
Condo
December 9
@ 12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
9:30 pm
$8.00

"If some CBGB's Frankenstein had managed, circa 1977, to transplant Patti Smith's sensibility into Blondie's garage-band pop, the result would have sounded something like BoySkout's "School of Etiquette." Outfitted in such New Wavey accessories as sneakers and skinny ties, this lesbian-rock quartet revives such Smithian motifs as drowning and the erotic appeal of outlaws, but with girl-group bounce. (...) "School of Etiquette" may not be genteel, but it is impeccably arranged."
Mark Jenkins / Washington Post
www.boyskout.com

"They were raw, energetic, and their performance was
rife with fun, hilarious moments. Bluntly speaking, this was primarily the work of vocalist/bassist Steven Chamberlain who really makes this band –and this isn ’t because he was in TORCHES TO ROME. His brash, angry vocal style and stage presence are simply amazing, and every time the music reaches its ferocious peak I am reminded of him shouting “I ’m not afraid to say I care ”on that seminal TORCHES TO ROME 12 ”. At some point though, I always have to yell at myself “Pull your mind out of the past! ”All right, I give in. Musically speaking, the YELLOW PRESS are most certainly in that certain post-punk realm where the object is to get the audience to shake their asses and clap their hands above all else. A heavy FUGAZI influence (I remember thinking to myself how badly one of the guitar players wanted to be Guy Picciotto), lots of keyboards, and a general “sassyness ”about the band the YELLOW PRESS much closer to an en-vogue band like LIARS than, say SWIZ. But this isn ’t entirely a bad thing. The YELLOW PRESS put a measure of originality and urgency into the mix that is rarely found in this presently oversaturated genre. This specific 12 ”has a few really, really good songs, and overall ….it rocks, though still not nearly as explosively as their live performance."
Maximum RocknRoll #256, September 2004
www.theyellowpress.net

"Well tickle me Bauhaus and call me Spanky, fuck the 80's and its electroclash miscarriage. Condor squashes the 80's revival with the gusto of a cracked out Todd Bridges. The San Francisco music scene rules right now as SF's very own Condor continues to stretch this musical universe in strange new directions by bringing electric noise to its knees."
www.narnakrecords.com
www.condorcondor.com

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Good. Evil. Trunks. Blotters

annie — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:17:55 GMT

KUSF and 12 Galaxies presents
"The Battle of Heaven and Hell"
with Knights of the New Crusade
Mr. & Mr. & Mr. & Mr. & Mr. Evil
Double Dutchess
and Smile God Loves You

12 Galaxies
2565 Mission Street
San Francisco, 94110
Friday, December 10th
9:00pm
$7

A battle royale for the new dark ages!! An epic style struggle for the hearts, minds, souls (and wallets) of a public confused by the panoply of oral choices in today's consumer marketplace!!

Can the forces of God deliver rock and roll that actually rocks? Or will the forces Evil continue to enjoy their stranglehold on the most popular form of music in the history of this planet? Is Hell really the bitchin' party we've been led to believe? Or the cesspool of spiritually bankrupt shallow leisure that God's chosen claim? Is Heaven where the real A-List action awaits? Or is it nothing but a bill of goods most false designed to keep you down?!

In one corner, two acts representing the forces of rational thought and earthly pleasure, the Mr. & Mr. Evils and Double Dutchess. Squaring off against them, Knights of the New Crusade and Smile God Loves You will lace up the gloves to duke it out on behalf of the perennially popular yet oft-maligned God and the teachings of his only son Jesus.

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A ready-to-slay attack on the devil's rock'n'roll from born-again, armor-clad Christian soldiers, the KNIGHTS OF THE NEW CRUSADE take Christian punk to new heights. The band eschews the typical whining, emo, praise-Him crap for a more potent, war-against-sin, evangelical attack. Kick-ass punk rocked with driving bass, slashing guitars, and testament-heavy, got-the-spirit vocals. Smite or be smoteth.

Moral relativists and guerilla rock confounders MR. & MR. & MR. & MR. & MR. EVIL kick up an angel-dusted ruckus of pummeling rock bombast. The Mr. Evils party down with D.C. go-go beats, gangster noise punk, and wonderfully ill-conceived TV and film soundtrack music. Fuck the afterlife, they ?ll be at the after-party!

SF Bay Guardian cover ing ?nues and New York Times darlings DOUBLE DUTCHESS are the reigning jezebels of jump rope. The Dutchesses never fail to deliver a riveting spectacle of daredevil stunt performance art jump rope tricks combined with gallows humor, booty-bass sex, and social disobedience.

SMILE GOD LOVES YOU dig what Jesus had to say. A lot. They ?re not here to thump the Bible, they ?re here to rock you, the Masses, to the high heavens with a grooving spiritual soundtrack designed to spread the teachings and good true words of Jesus the man, Jesus the dude, Jesus the ultimate bro ?!

KUSF 90.3 FM, is a Catholic-sponsored radio station at which agents of Satan seem to operate with utter impunity. Will this showdown answer any of the hard questions that KUSF grapples with on a daily basis?

crusadenow.com/ <crusadenow.com/>
www.doubledutchess.com/ <www.doubledutchess.com/>
www.kusf.org <www.kusf.org/>
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12 GALAXIES PRESENTS:
Holiday Trunk Show
Saturday December 11th noon –5pm - Free
Shopping, Cocktails & Brunch and Mistletoe!

Why shop at the mall when you can shop at the bar!
Come to 12 Galaxies and relax with a cocktail & brunch, cool music and spend the afternoon with over 20 local designers for that one of a kind gift and get in the holiday-handcrafted spirit.

Miz Mink would like to show the ladies her luxurious sheddingcases, Jon from Obey Miffy is presenting his latest Miffy wearables, Nooworks will cutify you with new sailor screened goodies, onesies and totes for last half of summer, Teetree will cuddle with you while you do your shopping, and Jen Shauman will make you the delicate flower with any of her hand sewn floral pieces!
These are only a few of the 20 or so designers participating so please stop by, it's FREE to come in, have a cocktail & brunch and check out what the locals are doing.
Our other friends include Blissen, Rock Candy Design, Speesees, Steve Mac, Shirts by Dennis, Urban Inks, Bert, Crease, Tiffany Schmierer, RacyTracy, Lanchy, PRFRL, Heather Kostrzweza. Swandive, 8mmideas, Camille Verboort, Kelly Townley, Craft Nation, Tina's Bags, Buffy, Lovelife, and Ashley Blanch

Links for your holiday shopping convenience.
www.blissen.com
www.nooworks.com
www.obeymiffy.com
www.teetreesworld.com
www.urbaninks.com
www.crease-sf.com
www.speesees.com
www.racytracy.com
www.houseofmink.com
www.tinasbags.com/
www.craftnation.net
8mm@thatsprettyexciting.com
www.swandivedesign.com/jewelry

What: Holiday Trunk Show and Brunch
When: Sat. Dec 11th 2004 noon-5pm
Where: 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St (between 21 & 22)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tickets: Free
Info: 415-970-9777 or www.12galaxies.com

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Tonight!
12/6
Project: Pimento
@ The Rite Spot
2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
9:00 pm
FREE -- donation to the musician

Theremin lounge featuring one of the most beautiful songbirds in the
city. Lori Carsillo aka Lola Bombay co- fronts this 50's, 60's,
70's "cover" band alongside Dr. Robby Virus- Theremin Ph.d. Perfect
dining music, so come on down... get a plate of pasta and glass of
red time and remember the good old days.

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south shows:

Wed December 8
Elephone
Madelia
Astral
9:30 pm
Elbo Room
$7.00

"Local indie rock darlings Elephone's mood-drenched dream-pop is the sound of late, late nights spent thrashing wide-eyed in an empty bed pining for someone you probably won't ever have, thanks to that darned restraining order. It's frustrated and sad, frenzied and barely collected. Their latest three-song EP, "Still Life with Vodka" (DIY Or Else), sees the coed five-piece channeling Thom York's bipolar energy and transitioning beautifully between explosive, hyperactive highs and heavy-lidded Ridalin lows."
SF Examiner 12/2
www.elephone.net

"Since 2001 San Francisco's Madelia have evolved from their dreamy origins into an amalgam of angular dance
rhythms, shoegaze and post-whatever that Filter Magazine has deemed 'Dark Sonic Fuck Rock." Madelia's
latest release, 'Everyday Underneath,' has garnered praise from the likes of Aquarius Records, AOL Online
and Skratch Magazine, who enthused, "[Madelia's music]beautifully furls and unfurls, retaining and releasing
latent energy that comes out in a very steamy,ethereal fashion." Madelia's influences range from the
creative dynamics of CA 90s hardcore bands Clikatat Ikatowi, Antioch Arrow, etc. to the textural songwriting of groups like My Bloody Valentine and the post-punk danceability of Wire & Gang of Four."

www.madelia.net

"SF trio specializing in the artform of shoegaze/psychedelic nugget - never shorting the listener in the musicality department. Dave Han (vox, guitar), Amy Rosenoff (bass) + drummer Shawn Poh get a proper release here, after self-producing the intriguing "Only Sometimes" (2002)..ASTRAL are like diamond cutters, unafraid of splitting gems and soaring fadeouts that the sky may be heavy with stars."

www.kfjc.com

www.astralsf.com

Wed December 8
El Capitan
Ray's Vast Basement
Madera Road CD release!
9:30 pm
12 Galaxies
$7.00

"Like many bands, from Cowboy Junkies to Palace to Norfolk & Western, El Capitan taps into a rich electric/rural aesthetic vein tracing back at least to the music of the Band - gorgeous vocal harmonies, dobro, banjo, and traditional song structures carried by strong writing and well-versed playing."
Blue Mag
www.elcapitanland.com

"One of the most refreshing listens we've heard in a long long while, Ray's Vast Basement is a collection of perfectly-crafted, honest-to-gosh SONGS written in the tradition of gravelly-voiced observers-of-life such as John Prine, Bob Dylan... "On the Banks of Time" is a fully formed aesthetic triumph complete with a lyric booklet and a stunningly executed, heartbreakingly poignant series of 60 cards detailing the 100,000,000-year history of Ray's Basement, the fictional cave in the town about which all the songs are written. Wow!"
Aquarius Records
www.raysvastbasement.com

Madera Road is old-timey country, sometimes pop, and occasionally truck-stop rock comprised of Liana Allday (guitar, vocals), Marc Dantona (bajo sexto, electric bass guitar, piano, vocals), Andrew Kitchen (Drums) and Jason Kocol (guitar, mandolin, bandoneon, vocals). Their music is enough to make you miss your dead dog, make out with strangers, and stumble home drunk (in no specific order).
www.maderaroad.com

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Boyskout
The Yellow Press
Condo
December 9
@ 12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
9:30 pm
$8.00

"If some CBGB's Frankenstein had managed, circa 1977, to transplant Patti Smith's sensibility into Blondie's garage-band pop, the result would have sounded something like BoySkout's "School of Etiquette." Outfitted in such New Wavey accessories as sneakers and skinny ties, this lesbian-rock quartet revives such Smithian motifs as drowning and the erotic appeal of outlaws, but with girl-group bounce. (...) "School of Etiquette" may not be genteel, but it is impeccably arranged."
Mark Jenkins / Washington Post
www.boyskout.com

"I saw the YELLOW PRESS right before they left for their European tour and
was pretty blown away. They were raw, energetic, and their performance was
rife with fun, hilarious moments. Bluntly speaking, this was primarily the
work of vocalist/bassist Steven Chamberlain who really makes this band – and
this isn’t because he was in TORCHES TO ROME. His brash, angry vocal style
and stage presence are simply amazing, and every time the music reaches its
ferocious peak I am reminded of him shouting “I’m not afraid to say I care”
on that seminal TORCHES TO ROME 12”. At some point though, I always have to
yell at myself “Pull your mind out of the past!” All right, I give in.
Musically speaking, the YELLOW PRESS are most certainly in that certain
post-punk realm where the object is to get the audience to shake their asses
and clap their hands above all else. A heavy FUGAZI influence (I remember
thinking to myself how badly one of the guitar players wanted to be Guy
Picciotto), lots of keyboards, and a general “sassyness” about the band the
YELLOW PRESS much closer to an en-vogue band like LIARS than, say SWIZ. But
this isn’t entirely a bad thing. The YELLOW PRESS put a measure of
originality and urgency into the mix that is rarely found in this presently
oversaturated genre. This specific 12” has a few really, really good songs,
and overall….it rocks, though still not nearly as explosively as their live
performance. Either way, a good record whichever way you want to cut it.
Maximum RocknRoll #256, September 2004
www.theyellowpress.net

"Well tickle me Bauhaus and call me Spanky, fuck the 80's and its electroclash miscarriage. Condor squashes the 80's revival with the gusto of a cracked out Todd Bridges. The San Francisco music scene rules right now as SF's very own Condor continues to stretch this musical universe in strange new directions by bringing electric noise to its knees."
www.narnakrecords.com
www.condorcondor.com

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Friday, December 17
Waycross
Jeffrey Luck Lucas CD release!
Hazy Loper
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
$8.00

"[Waycross] ...play a full, polished brand of shadowy twang. Delving into the darker side of country music a la Cowboy Junkies and Trailer Bride with layers of sliding, spidery reverbed guitar and gritty organs. The melancholic female lead vocals bring to mind the subdued yet powerful delivery of Hope Sandoval or Carly Simon."
Aquarius Records
www.saucefaucet.com

"A blur of cheap whiskey and late, sleepless nights thickens the haze of despair and self-doubt embedded in the music of Jeffrey Luck Lucas. His scratchy voice stews and simmers underneath thick, slow-crawling arrangements, the whole experience coming off like a murky hallucination bubbling from some urban swamp-puddle at your feet. Dark and intense."
Editor's Review C|Net Music
www.jeffreylucklucas.com

Hazy Loper are a duet of banjo and guitar who play wailing sad and lonely tunes that haunt the rafters of the soul, like wind whistling through the trees.
http://www.outofroundrecords.com

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The Lola Gallery presents

Swank

Our annual Christmas High Class dance party!
Saturday December 11th from 9pm until late, late!
Formal attire encouraged
Festive gnome, pixie and of course, piggy costumery rewarded
But really, just come as you are too!

The Swank line up includes;

Swanky, funky ass Christmas dance floor classics by
ziploc
neel n. kizmiaz
otter
claire ahll
& special guests

Very naughty festive performances!

Our favourite Rockstar Bartenders and much more!
Admission on the door $6

http://www.lolabrown.com
The Lola Gallery is located at 2517 Mission @ 21st Streets on the Second Floor

View the new mural on our patio by renowned artist Brad K. Alder

Lounge and sip a cocktail in the new “Zen Den” Room

The current exhibition features high quality originals and prints by over twenty notable artists, with a specific focus on the collection of Mark McCloud.

McCloud, known to some as the “Prince of Paper”, is the owner of the largest original “blotter art” collection in the world branded “The Institute of Illegal Images”. These framed blotter sheets, festooned with incredibly unique psychedelic and pop culture images, are a testament to the pervasive and artistic subculture of LSD. Senior museum and gallery officials have long concluded that McCloud’s work constitutes an unrivalled and entirely unique form of folk art. McCloud has recently collaborated with digital artist Dana Dana Dana to produce high quality prints in limited editions of fifty under the name Blotter Barn. Each image is a photographic enlargement of a selected item from the collection, and depicts that item in every detail, revealing tiny elements that are normally invisible to the human eye. This will be the first such exhibition of these prints in the United States and is presented in the new dedicated “Blotter Barn” Room at The Lola Gallery.

“Swank” also features new work by Sirron Norris, Zachary Rattay, Scott Ketchum, Francis Baker, Irene Hendrick, Charles Gatewood, Nate Hooper, Merikay MacKenna among others. On ongoing exhibition through January 22nd, is “Dark Skies” featuring exquisite oils by Canadian artist Ian Sheldon. “Sheldon’s work skillfully evokes the majesty and might of nature. The inherent paradox in the opposing forces of harmony and discord, of creation and destruction, is venerated in his inspired skyscapes”, says art critic Susan Kennedy.

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep
underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest live and
on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of
speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by
the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack
Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts
across all performance disciplines and
incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous,
starkly beautiful, supremely talented and
horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and
intelligible writing that this type of event is
probably not for the faint at heart or the politically
correct.

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Kitten on the Keys. Tonight!

annie — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:21:32 GMT

November 29- Tonight!
Kitten on the Keys
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
9:00 pm
FREE (donation to the musicians)

"Cute, kicky, irrepressible, irresistible, licentious, lewd, dizzy,
delightful -- that's Kitten on the Keys. It's been a couple of years since the Lollies' utterly go-going-gone-are-her-panties piano player set out on her own with nothing but a toy piano, an accordion, two roller skates, a whip, a ukulele, a pair of stilts, a plethora of custom-made bustles and bustiers, and a steamer trunk full of feather ticklers, colored wigs, and edible pasties. And what a wild and winsome time it's been. Even with the abundance of burlesque and bally in this town, Suzanne Ramsey, as the Kitten is named, is San Francisco's finest ambassador of bada-boom. A veritable one-woman vaudevillian show, she has proven her chops as a sexy chanteuse, sassy comedienne, and gutsy mistress of ceremonies; she has enlivened Burlesquefest in Canada, MCed Tease-O-Rama in Los Angeles, fondled Liberace's ivories in Vegas, and fired imaginations throughout Europe (particularly in France, where they just can't seem to get enough of her). Yet Ramsey still finds the time and energy to perform here at home with the Lollies and San Francisco's Famous Burlesque Troupe, and with every other local artist who tickles her peculiar funny bone. Whether it's sucking bloody brains
in a zombie revue or acting as a misanthropic stage mother in a semi-autobiographical noir carnival act, Ramsey shimmies a fine line between high class and low rent, imbuing every cameo with impeccable timing, unimpeachable phrasing, and an unimaginable gutter mouth."
Silke Tudor
www.kittymusic.com

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annie — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:22:35 GMT

Hey Cab-

Our friend Andy Menconi wanted us to pass this along for you... it's a very cool animation video
Calling the President out for who and what he is. He's the guy who did the Andy Christ animation
short you may have seen in Episode 2 of ACTV. Speaking of ACTV, the push goes on for the DVD
that is very expensive to make as it turns out. We're nearly there. If you are interested in purchasing
the 2 episode final product please let me know. It's probably going to be $20.00 but we'd like to get
an estimate of interest.

http://www.syntheticniche.com/comics/notblog_flash.html

Bandit, the racoon fur jacket and the Leopard head have been safely returned to their natural habitats. Thanks so much to whoever anomynously returned the Leopard head. It's appreciated.

xxxooo

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Please write congress, the senate, the media and demand that we be told the actual election results.
It is unacceptible that we do not have access to this information.

xo annie

(this was forwarded to me and hopefully you'll find it of interest)

Here is a compendium of media outlets and other relevant links concerning voter fraud.
there are 3 sections:
NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
WEB SITES AND BLOGS THAT ARE COLLECTING EVIDENCE OF VOTE FRAUD
This email has been bouncing around and people have been adding to it.
Now we have the tools.
If you have the time, make the effort.
In other words if you feel like your ability to participate in this democracy has been slighted, this is an opportunity to re-inject yourself into the discussion.

Participate

Make the calls

Send the emails

Demand accountability and transparency.
NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
ABC News
47 W. 66 St., New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-222-7777
General e-mail: netaudr@abc.com

ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings:
Phone: 212-456-4040
Fax: 212-456-2795
E-mail: netaudr@abc.com

Nightline:
1717 DeSales St., NW, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-222-7000
E-mail: niteline@abc.com

20/20:
147 Columbus Ave., 10th fl, New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-2020
Fax: 212-456-0533
E-mail: 2020@abc.com

ABC's Good Morning America:
147 Columbus Ave., New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-5900
Fax: 212-456-7257
E-mail: netaudr@abc.com

CBS

CBS News
524 W. 57 St., New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-457-4385

CBS Evening News with Dan Rather:
Phone: 212-975-3691 or 202-457-4385
Fax: 212-975-1893

The Early Show:
Phone: 212-975-2824
Fax: 212-975-7133 or 212-975-2033

60 Minutes:
555 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019-2985
Phone: 212-975-2006
Fax: 212-757-6975

60 Minutes II:
Phone: 212-975-6200

CNBC
2200 Fletcher Ave.
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Phone: (201) 585-2622
Fax: (201) 583-5453
Email: info@cnbc.com

CNN
One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1906
E-mail: cnn.feedback@cnn.com

CNN Washington Bureau
820 First St. N.E., Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-898-7900
Fax: 202-898-7923

Crossfire
Phone: 202-898-7655
Fax: 202-898-7611

Larry King Live
Phone: 202-898-7690
Fax: 202-898-7686

Fox News Channel
1211 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 301-3000
Fax: (212) 301-4229
Email: comments@foxnews.com

MSNBC
One MSNBC Plaza
Secaucus, NJ 07094
Phone: (201) 583-5000
Fax: (201) 583-5453
Email: world@msnbc.com

NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Phone: 212-664-4444
Fax: 212-664-4426

Washington Bureau
4001 Nebraska Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-885-4200
Fax: 202-362-2009

NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw:
Phone: 212-664-4971 or 202-885-4259 Fax: 202-362-2009 E-mail:
nightly@nbc.com

NBC News' Today:
Phone: 212-664-4602 or 202-885-4231
Fax: 212-664-4426
E-mail: today@nbc.com

Dateline NBC
Phone: 212-664-7501
Fax: 212-664-7864
E-mail: dateline@nbc.com

Public Broadcasting

PBS
1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-739-5000
Fax: 703-739-8458

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
3620 South 27th St., Arlington, VA 22206
Phone: 703-998-2150
E-mail: newshour@pbs.org

National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001-3753
Phone: 202-513-2000
Fax: 202-513-3329
E-mail: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Ombudsman ombudsman@npr.org

All Things Considered:
Phone: 202-513-2110
E-mail: atc@npr.org

Morning Edition:
Phone: 202-513-2150
Fax: 202-513-3329
E-mail: morning@npr.org

National Newspapers

Los Angeles Times
202 West First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 800-528-4637 or 213-237-5000
Fax: 213-237-4712
E-mail: letters@latimes.com

New York Times
229 W. 43rd St., New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-556-1234
Fax: 212-556-3690
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-862-0300
E-mail: letters@nytimes.com

USA Today
1000 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22229
Phone: 800-872-0001 or 703-276-3651
Fax: 703-247-3108
E-mail: editor@usatoday.com

Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281
Phone: 212-416-2000
Fax: 212-416-2658
E-mail: editors@interactive.wsj.com

Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW, Washington, DC 20071
Phone: 202-334-6000
Fax: 202-334-5269
E-mail: ombudsman@washpost.com

Associated Press
50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
Phone: 212-621-1500
Fax: 212-621-7523
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-776-9400

Magazines

Newsweek
251 W 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-445-4000
Fax: 212-445-5068
E-mail: letters@newsweek.com

Time
Time & Life Bldg., Rockefeller Center, New York, NY 10020
Phone: 212-522-1212
Fax: 212-522-0323
E-mail: letters@time.com

U.S. News & World Report
1050 Thomas Jefferson St., Washington, DC 20007
Phone: 202-955-2000
Fax: 202-955-2049
E-mail: letters@usnews.com

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Please find 20-30 minutes today to call and/or email the following list
of people and agencies and tell them that you are outraged and concerned
about the possibility of election fraud and votes not having been
counted properly in your state and others that may have altered the
outcome of the election.

Mention that you are aware of reports from counties around the country
(in particular OH and Florida) that reported the following a) More votes
recorded than there are voters in counties using electronic voting
machines

b) that not all military, provisional and absentee ballots have been
counted. Let them know you consider this to be serious violations
of your rights as a citizen under the "HAVA - Help America Vote Act" and
that you want them to undertake an investigation.
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GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS:
People and Agencies to Contact regarding this matter:
1) Your two Senators & elected Representative - here is the main
switchboard number for the House and Senate:
202-224-3121

2) Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader:
202-225-4965

3) These members are allegedl/reportedly looking into the issue -
urge them to introduce a bill to investigate voter fraud:
Rep. Henry Waxman of CA - 202-225-3976
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of OH - 202-225-7032
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of OH - 202-225-5871
Rep. Tim Ryan of OH - 202-225-5261

4) Democratic & Republican Members of the House Judiciary Committee:
Rep. Robert Wexler of FL - 202-225-3001
Rep. Maxine Waters of CA - 202-225-2201
Rep. Chabot of OH (R)- 202-225-2216
Rep. King of IA (R)- 202-225-4426

5) Democrat & Republican Members (call both) of the Senate Judiciary
Committee:
Sen. Patrick Leahy of VT - 202-224-4242
Sen. Ted Kennedy of MA - 202-224-4543
Sen. Joe Biden of DE - 202-224-5042
Sen. Russ Feingold of WI - 202-224-5323
Sen. Charles Schumer of NY - 202-224-6542
Sen. Arlen Specter of PA (R) - 202-224-4254 (thank him also for
having urged the Pres. to not choose anti-abortion judges and taking the
body blows)
Sen. Mike DeWine of OH (R) - 202-224-2315
Sen. Chuck Grassley of IA (R)- 202-224-3744

6) Federal Elections Commission:
Audit Division
Joseph Stoltz, Assistant Staff Director
Telephone: 800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1200)

Inspector General
Lynne McFarland, Inspector General
Telephone:
800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1015)7) The news media - we have to
put pressure on them: (this is all I could find for now)

NBC/MSNBC- Nightly@NBC.com & viewerservices@msnbc.com
CNN- http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
CBS- 212-258-6000 - 60II@cbsnews.com, evening@cbsnews.com,
48hours@cbsnews.com,
earlyshow@cbs.com

8) Call the Secretary of State's office in the state of OH and FL -
Tell them that you demand under the HAVA law to have all votes
counted -especially the absentee, military and all provisional ballots
counted and verified - tell them you suspect foul-play.

Phone # to OH Sec. of State Kenneth Blackwell's Office: toll free -
1-877-767-6446 or email: election@sos.state.oh.us or 614-466-2585

Phone # to FL Sec. of State Glenda Hood's Office: 850-245-6500

9) Donate $5 to Bev Harris at http://www.blackboxvoting.org - she
has been filing 1000's of information requests under the "FOIA-Freedom
of Information Act" to account for the various voting machines across
the country.

10) Email or Fax Ralph Nader - Yep, you heard me, good ole
Ralph....here's his opportunity to make up for any feelings of bad will
after the 2000 election and the current one. Ralph has been a lifelong
advocate for us, the consumer and little guy and he is actually in the
unique position right now to do something since he was a Presidential
candidate and has the ability to be listened to. He has actually
already filed a challenge in NH (not that he is looking to overturn the
results, but because he can prove there may have been bigger problems
and he qualifies there as having been on
the ballot). http://www.votenader.org/media_press/index.php?cid=400
Urge him to do this across the board on a national level. Heck, the
media seemed to have such a lovefest with him before the election, could
they possibly ignore him now? Contact Ralph at - 202-265-4000

11) Call/email Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center: carterweb@emory.edu or
call at (800) 550-3560
Former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center are considered to be
the most experienced in the election process and conducting fair
democratic elections - urge him to get involved and investigate possible
fraud and the unexplainable discepancies throughout the election
involving the computer voting machines, especially in swing states.
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WEB SITES AND BLOGS THAT ARE COLLECTING EVIDENCE OF VOTE FRAUD:

http://www.truthout.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.votersunite.org
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/election_2004_aftermath/
http://liberty.hypermart.net/Newsletter/3/
4_The_2004_Election_Has_Already_Been_Rigged.htm

http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/000901.html
Why we need to make Americans aware of the faulty equipment.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
Bev Harris examines how votes can be changed, passwords can be
bypassed, and the audit log altered.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php
Greg Palast suggests that votes are discarded, \x93Spoilage\x94 and that
Kerry won Ohio and the Presidential Election.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Oct-14-Thu-2004/news/
24993304.html

Federal and state authorities are looking into Democratic Party
allegations that a voter registration group hired by the Republican
Party tossed out registration forms signed by
Democrats.http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00052.htm

Recently, technicians and programmers for Diebold Election Systems, the
company that supplied every single voting machine for the surprising
2002 results in the state of Georgia, the company that
is preparing to convert the state of Maryland to its no-paper-trail
computerized voting, admitted to a file-sharing system that amounts
to a colossal security flaw.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=30

A test engineer for DRE "touch-screen" voting machines reported over
250 errors... Lawsuit indicates that the company did not address the
flaws, and that the voting system was certified by independent testing
labs despite known flaws.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO407A.html

Gives state by state example of how the Republican Party stole the 2004
election.
http://pnews.org/art/4art/COUP.shtml

Background information about the U.S. Constitution and the right to
vote. States how Bush won his first term in a brief oppionated article.
Ballots from 40 precincts in Ohio loaded into a truck with Bush/Cheney
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/

Twelve ways Bush is now stealing the Ohio vote by Bob Fitrakis and
Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, October 27, 2004
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/810

AN ELECTION SPOILED ROTTEN
by Greg Palast Nov 1, 04
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/an_election_spoiled_rotten.php

New Florida vote scandal feared Oct 24. 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm

Madame Butterfly Flies Off with Ballots
Florida Fixed Again? Absentee Ballots Go Absent by Greg Palast
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0830-08.htm

How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election
http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html

How election 2000 was won?
http://www.seeingblack.com/x042502/stealingvotes.shtml
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/10032557.htm

Below is a not so short compendium of links from bloggers and others
on the story:

New! 11/9 Ian Welsh: Thinking about vote fraud
<http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002357.html#2357>

Matt Stoller: another stolen election
<http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002312.html#2312>

oldman: speaks for itself
<http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002313.html#2313>

Barry Ritholtz: mapping out election results
<http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002317.html#2317>

Ian Welsh: Okay, it was stolen
<http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002325.html#2325>

Shaula Evans: fight fight fight
<http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002327.html#2327>

Atrois: The Ohio Code
<http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/11/ohio-code.html>

Sarpy County, Nebraska: More votes than voters
<http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html>

FL: voting machines reject mysterious wet ballots
<http://www.local6.com/news/3883420/detail.html>

Shifting numbers of Florida's election
<http://www.ac.wwu.edu/%7Eadamsb6/elections/> (with graphs and charts)

Bob Fitrakis: Evidence is mounting
<http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983>

97,489 extra votes in Cayahoga County, Ohio
<http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html>

Democracy Now: The E-vote Factor
<http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/1513252>

eRiposte: Election 2004 results
<http://www.eriposte.com/election04/2004_results_1.htm>

No paper ballot recount requests yet in Florida
<http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000720.html> - and
how to start one

Another rigged election? The Elephant in the voting booth
<http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/11/far04038.html>

Electronic voting machine woes reported
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/2004
1103/ap_on_el_pr/eln_electronic_voting>

Machine error gives Bush extra Ohio votes
<http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1131&idq=/ff/story/0
001/20041105/1156851804.htm&sc=1131&photoid=20041104WHRE106>

Gambling glitch mars vote tally
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10103931.htm?1c>

Wired: Watchdogs spot e-vote glitches
<http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65579,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1>

National voting rights monitor documents voting irregularities in the
south
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4598911,00.html>

Warren County, OH shrouds vote count in darkness
<http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/05/loc_warrenvote05.html>

Ralph Nader challenges vote count in New Hampshire
<http://votenader.org/media_press/index.php?cid=400>

Citizen attempt to expose irregularities in Florida
<http://www.legitgov.org/essay_front_lines_in_florida_110704.html>

WI group says, Election stolen
<http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=15673&ntpid=1>

Indianapolis Wish-TV asks, Will Your Vote Count?
<http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886&nav=0Ra7JXq2>

AP gets direct feed from tabulating computers
<http://www.ecotalk.org/AP.htm>

media Black Out Voting Problems
<http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article
&sid=950>

Republicans and Democrats spar over vote tally
<http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news04/110604_news_vote.shtml>

House Democrats Seek election inquiry
<http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html?tw=wn_story_mailer>

Voting irregularities <http://ideamouth.com/voterfraud.htm#FL> (with
charts!)

William Rivers Pitt: Worse Than 2000
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml>

Florida rigged the optical scanners <http://blog.democrats.com/florida>
with stats and charts

Strange election results from Ohio
<http://www.oliverwillis.com/node/view/1152>

Electronic Voting machine woes reported
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=220927>

Defective software lost votes
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10099198.htm>

Over 20 percent of the machines tested failed to record votes properly.
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-11-03-evote-trouble_x.htm>

Electronic Ballots: Major media reporting major problems
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/electronicvoting>

Video the Vote: Documentation from Cleveland Polls
<http://michiganimc.org/feature/display/7770/index.php>

Angry Ohio Residents Storm State House
<http://michiganimc.org/feature/display/7644/index.php>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._Election_controversies_and_irregularities#Evidence_of_electronic_voting_bias
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Bonster Productions
cordially invites you to

The 5th Annual Scorpio Ball

“The Orient Express”
Sat., November 20, 2004 10pm

Mighty Gallery ~ 119 Utah @ 15th, SF

$15 pre-sale tix, $20 @ the Door

**Costumes & Sensual Attire Anticipated**

Featuring Superstar DJs…
Cheb i Sabbah

Lorin (Bassnectar)

Chris Sia

Random Rab

Neptune

Moondoggy

CB

With live performances by…

Aphrodesia

Balinese Monkey Chanting

Korean Drum Dancing

Arabesque Dance Troupe

Fashion Show by Nomadia

*Plus* The Little Tokyo Sushi & Sake Lounge!!

And many more surprises…

www.bonsterproductions.com

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Wednesday, November 17
Built Like Alaska
Audio Out Send
Last of the Blacksmiths
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
$7.00

"Loose, fuzzy indie-rock and nestled, contemplative sweeping pop. Built Like Alaska's debut, Hopalong is a mature, diverse record that proves a weepy acoustic number can, and does, go well next to a bouncy, guitar-soaked rocker. The two sides of the band tug and pull at your emotions as you find yourself crying with them one minute, as you both share a smile and a laugh the next. At times majestic and other times dirty, the serene rock of Built Like Alaska mirrors the cold, light climate of the land in which is takes its name from."
in music we trust
www.builtlikealaska.com

"...from fragile and scattered to dynamic and lush. A full, layered sound flows smoothly between destinations, with a variety of instrumental arrangemnets. Though not always direct in meaning, the songs maintain a level of honesty in their approach."
www.audiooutsend.com

"Last of the Blacksmiths are a wildly talented San Francisco band that makes sparse, harmony-rich music that vibrates with organic warmth. The two main singers trade guitar, Fender Rhodes, and mandolin as the bassist plucks restrained notes and the drummer plays subtle brushes. Their music is slow and stark, evoking an American scene..."
Blue Mag
www.lastoftheblacksmiths.com

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Our Lady of the Highway
Giant Value
Friday, November 19
@ Pier 23
www.pier23cafe.com
San Francisco, CA
8:00 pm
$5.00

"No, this unfailingly polite Oakland band doesn't rawk in the beloved head-banging, dude-passing, fire-breathing sense of the word. Our Lady specializes in early-'90s "college rock," gentle and wispy and sweetly melodic, like that from the era back when rock critics were obsessed with the word "jangly." Vintage REM springs to mind, but Michael Stipe's jumbled grad student wordplay can't hold a candle to Highway frontman Dominic East, a disconcertingly giddy firebrand who delightedly bellows, in a clear, powerful, direct voice, the most down-and-out depressing ex-girlfriend anthems you'll ever hear. From his lips, the chorus I think I'm coming apart at the seams carries the same anthemic joy as I wanna rock 'n' roll all night/And party every day. It's a strange but entrancing card trick -- the Highway's sad-sack barroom pop will make you happier in your sadness and loneliness than you've ever been."
Best of the East Bay Express 2004- rock category
www.ourladyofthehighway.com

"Pop trio Giant Value really lives up to their name. One of those bands where every member is capable of putting on a micro-show for your viewing pleasure, GV gets a lot of mileage out of their infectiously energetic stage presence and catchy sing-along songbook."
Beth Lisick, BuzzTown, sfgate.com
www.giantvalue.net

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Experience the “Best Theatrical Production of 2004” – East Bay Express Reader’s Poll

The Bright River

(a mass-transit tour of the afterlife)

Written and performed by Tim Barsky and the Everyday Ensemble
Directed by Jeff Raz

At Traveling Jewish Theatre: December 1, 2004 – January 1, 2005
470 Florida Street (between 17th & Mariposa St)
San Francisco

At Julia Morgan Center for the Arts: January 5–16, 2005
2640 College Avenue
Berkeley

“When the 20th century impacted the afterlife,
and the killing got so out of control,
the system started to break down.
The backlog in the celestial bureaucracy
began to blur the line between life and death.”

Guided by a fixer named Quick, and moving through an urban landscape that is at once both intensely real and fantastic, The Bright River sends us on a mass-transit tour of the Afterlife.

The Bright River is a unique blend of hip hop theatre, Jewish folklore, klezmer, beatbox, and jazz performed by some of the finest artists in the Bay Area; lead performer and storyteller Tim Barsky, bassist and multi-instrumentalist Safa Shokrai, cellist Jess Ivry, and beatboxer/vocal percussionist Kid Beyond (SF Weekly’s “Best Beatboxer”).

Debuting at Epic Arts Studios in Fall 2003, the Epic crew then moved The Bright River next door to The Transparent Theatre. There it grew, based almost entirely on word-of-mouth, to a sold-out production, earning “Best Theatrical Production of 2004” in the East Bay Express Reader’s Poll. This success captured the attention of Traveling Jewish Theatre, a world-renowned professional theater company. Now, in partnership with TJT, Epic Arts brings you The Bright River in a full professional production. Come see what it has become!

http://epicarts.org/brightriver

Friday December 3rd: Special Epic Arts opening week party with discount ticket price and special post-show performance and celebration. Tickets here (and going fast!): http://www.inhousetickets.com/evinfo.php?eventid=6423.

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep
underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest live and
on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of
speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by
the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack
Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts
across all performance disciplines and
incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous,
starkly beautiful, supremely talented and
horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and
intelligible writing that this type of event is
probably not for the faint at heart or the politically
correct.

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A Russ Meyers Freak Out!

annie — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:10:35 GMT

Come pay tribute to Russ Meyers Friday Night @ 12 Galaxies!

Russ Meyers Freak Out!
Losin`Streaks/The Hutdwellers/The Go-Going-Gone Girls
Friday, November 12
@ The 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
advanced tickets available
9:00 pm
$8!

Live bands, psychedlic DJ's, Russ Meyers Movies, Costume Party, Go-Go dancers and MORE!

"As easy as the three-chord proto-punk tunes found on Lenny Kaye's classic Nuggets compilation might be to play, too many garage revivalists confuse raw primitivism with outright sloppiness. Not so with the Sacramento-based thugs who make up Th' Losin Streaks, who bring the kind of snarling swagger to their raucous debut that would do their fuzzed-out forebears proud. Despite treading the genre's well-worn subject matter of two-fisted romancing ("Beg, Steal or Borrow" and "Your Love, Now") and love gone awry ("The End"), Th' Losin Streaks keep things fresh with razor-sharp hooks and Tim Foster's gruff, authoritative vocals. Sacto guitar legend Mike Farrell deals out one searing, sustain-driven lead after another, helping drive the tracks with the same wild abandon that Jeff Beck brought to the Yardbirds' more unhinged rave-ups. Rounded out by a few choice covers (including the Guess Who's "It's My Pride" and the
Holland/Dozier/Holland chestnut "I'm Leaving"), Sounds of Violence lives up to its name, announcing Th' Losin Streaks as NorCal's new garage-rock contenders. "
Dave Pehling- SF Weekly
http://www.the-troublemakers.com/losinstreaks.html

"The Hut Dwellers had the middle slot, a three piece of gentlemen who like a good freak out in their songs, yet still manage to keep the compositions at pop song length. It helps when you have a guitar player with some of the fastest hands I've ever seen – when he gets going it's like a blur up there, the most rapid strumming I've ever seen! Again, this is a band I've seen before and manages to defy easy pigeonholing – one friend noted a Minutemen similarity, but that was due in part to the outfit of the guitarist mentioned above, Dave. The comparison that I always think of are those house bands you'd see in old Russ Meyer's films, only those groups usually involved swirly lights. Anyways, they play a very unique brand of psychedelic pop, and they play it very well."
Live Show Review
Playing in Fog- Jake
www.hutdwellers.com

The Go-Going-Gone Girls are a live act, a sensory experience that defies auditory limits. Oh sure, they sound, but the G4s are holistic practitioners on pink pedestals, transcending form and fashion, time and technology.* Their performances are not just seen and heard, but felt at a visceral—even primal—level. And though this trio of hair-hopping hoofers may worship at the alter of their frolicking forbearers, they are nothing if not au courant. Backed by an all-star four-piece lineup, they deliver a dexterous and distinctive blend of 60's go-go, soul, bubblegum, girl-group, and garage. Hear them sing, wail, scream, harmonize, plead, beg, and shout from atop their totemic pedestals. See them shimmy, shake,
twist, dog, monkey, duck, bird, funky chicken, and pony like their ancestors of yore. Smell the musk generated by your fellow audience members as they wiggle, jerk, groove, watusi, peel, hully gully, hand jive, and slop to the ancient rhythms. Taste the sweat on your own lips as you are swept away by the sacred rituals of the mashed potato, the Madison, the hanky panky, the frug, the popcorn, and the bugaloo. Feel the band camelwalk, locomotion, skate, swim, stroll, and hitchhike their way into your heart.

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ASS HATS and Russ Meyers

annie — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:27:16 GMT

How depressing that 1/2 of the country thinks that our current administrations actions and goals over the past 4 years are acceptible. If you think about it, considering what's at stake with Iraq and the Christian right wing agenda that those ass hats would do anything to win. I am not overly conspiracy minded, but I hope there is a probe into those voting machines and that the democratic party does not just roll over like it looks like they are doing. Again. The republicans had their buddies building those machines over the past four years--- all the time in the world--to make sure they wouldn't be so obvious as the last go around. I find it hard to believe that the country is still split in half, considering all the events, corruption, economy and day after day of bad news from Iraq.

I know you've only just recovered from the Acid Cabaret, but since no one seems to be paying tribute to the late, great Russ Meyers... I figured I would. About 5 years ago, we had a blow out Russ Meyers themed party and I am telling you, this shit was crazy. It was like the party scene in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, except no one went on a psychotic killing spree. Thankfully.

Held at the same space as recent The ASS CAB, you all know how cozy and comfortable this place is. Inexpensive drinks and a fucking good time. I can't promise an after party this time around though!

We love you all.

Ass Cab

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Russ Meyers Freak Out!

Losin`Streaks/The Hutdwellers/
The Going-Going-Gone Girls

Friday, November 12
@ The 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
advanced tickets through
www.12galaxies.com
doors at 8:00 pm
$8!

Live bands, psychedlic DJ's, Russ Meyers Movies, Go-Go dancers and MORE! Come dressed as your favorite Russ Meyers character and pay tribute to the king of sleaze.

(I am looking for a few extra GoGo Dancers, all shapes and sizes, preferably some hard core Russ Meyers fans who will dress up and shake their booty for an hour or so at the show, please tribe note me asap!)

"As easy as the three-chord proto-punk tunes found on Lenny Kaye's classic Nuggets compilation might be to play, too many garage revivalists confuse raw primitivism with outright sloppiness. Not so with the Sacramento-based thugs who make up Th' Losin Streaks, who bring the kind of snarling swagger to their raucous debut that would do their fuzzed-out forebears proud. Despite treading the genre's well-worn subject matter of two-fisted romancing ("Beg, Steal or Borrow" and "Your Love, Now") and love gone awry ("The End"), Th' Losin Streaks keep things fresh with razor-sharp hooks and Tim Foster's gruff, authoritative vocals. Sacto guitar legend Mike Farrell deals out one searing, sustain-driven lead after another, helping drive the tracks with the same wild abandon that Jeff Beck brought to the Yardbirds' more unhinged rave-ups. Rounded out by a few choice covers (including the Guess Who's "It's My Pride" and the Holland/Dozier/Holland chestnut "I'm Leaving"), Sounds of Violence lives up to its name, announcing Th' Losin Streaks as NorCal's new garage-rock contenders. "
Dave Pehling- SF Weekly
http://www.the-troublemakers.com/losinstreaks.html

The Hutdwellers will be doing "Carrie Nation" songs, the chick band from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls as well as some of their own numbers, fueled by the songwriting and speedstrumming of Dave Leonard on guitar. The Hutdwellers play tightly constructed songs that reach stratospheric overdrive with melodic vocals laid over the top. A completely self taught band, The Hutdwellers smashes formulated molds and plays music strictly for joy and release. Commerce be damned!
www.hutdwellers.com

The Go-Going-Gone Girls (featuring Audrey from Beyond Bitch) are a live act, a sensory experience that defies auditory limits. Oh sure, they sound, but the G4s are holistic practitioners on pink pedestals, transcending form and fashion, time and technology.* Their performances are not just seen and heard, but felt at a visceral—even primal—level. And though this trio of hair-hopping hoofers may worship at the alter of their frolicking forbearers, they are nothing if not au courant. Backed by an all-star four-piece lineup, they deliver a dexterous and distinctive blend of 60’s go-go, soul, bubblegum, girl-group, and garage. Hear them sing, wail, scream, harmonize, plead, beg, and shout from atop their totemic pedestals. See them shimmy, shake, twist, dog, monkey, duck, bird, funky chicken, and pony like their ancestors of yore. Smell the musk generated by your fellow audience members as they wiggle, jerk, groove, watusi, peel, hully gully, hand jive, and slop to the ancient rhythms. Taste the sweat on your own lips as you are swept away by the sacred rituals of the mashed potato, the Madison, the hanky panky, the frug, the popcorn, and the bugaloo. Feel the band camelwalk, locomotion, skate, swim, stroll, and hitchhike their way into your heart.

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Bandit- the racoon fur coat has been found! Hooray! Still gone missing is the Leopard head so please write Claire@lolabrown.com if you have any information. (I gave the wrong addie last time around).

Thanks again for all the good times and memories (?) from the Acid Cabaret. You guys are the fucking best. How rad were Bride of Ozzy and Rosin Coven? We love you, bitches!

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Drunk Horse
Acid King
Coup de Grace
Friday, November 5
12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
$8.00

"Birthed from the soil of Oakland, California, Drunk Horse is a band that celebrates the glorious universal music that is Rock and Roll. The beauty of having one’s head caved in by electric guitars and pummeled by the drums. These things they exalt. The sound of Drunk Horse is recognized as a call to arms, a Return to the Riff, a beacon in the fog for those in search of organic, heartfelt and explosive music. A simple idea, and one whose time is nigh. Rock music is a vast frontier, one that was widely explored, but abandoned prematurely. Drunk Horse are picking up the map and compass and heading back out there. In these latter-days of media saturation, if something doesn’t sound overproduced, laptopped and rap-rocked to death, often the cry of “Retro!” is heard. Perhaps we should take a look over our shoulder and see where we turned off the path."
TeePeeRecords.Com
www.drunkhorse.com

Unlike most hard rock, Acid King comes at you from the bottom up. You feel their music's violence and glacial power deep down, in your spine, your hips, your intestines. From there the sound explodes in slow motion, upwards and outwards. The foundation of Acid King's stoned, distorted, heavy rock sound is principal songwriter Lori S.'s monolithic downtuned guitar riffs, which feel like craggy mountains that poke up into the darkness of night. Guy Pinhas complements her on a rumbling, subterranean bass, and together they down some of the most writhing, sinister sounding grooves this side of Black Sabbath. Add in strangled, Satanic vocals from both Lori and Pinhas, some jittery drumming from Joey Osbourne, and massive distortion, and you get some truly monumental doomy stoner rock.
www.epitonic.com
www.acidking.com

"Coup de Grace (featuring Billy Konkel and Chris Portfolio from the Acid Cabaret), is not a band that can be easily lumped into a scene or category. Emo-hell no, Crunk I think not. They just prefer just ROCK, No hyphen's. With the release of their new CD "The Ventura Threeway" (Sonic Jihad Records). San Francisco's Coup de Grace delivers a stiff back hand of rock, enough to make you forget about pledging your allegiance to just one scene. This a is no-frills band who could care less if you don't like them. For people who like Jesus Lizard, DOA, Motorhead, Queens of the Stone Age and Hasil Adkins."
bikki5@hotmail.com

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THANKS!

annie — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:12:40 GMT

Thanks to everyone who showed up to the Acid Cabaret!
You guys seriously rock and wehope you had a great time.
We certainly did!

Sadly, someone stole a leopard head from the LOLA Gallery after party.
If you saw anything or know about getting it back to them,
please write info@lolagallery.com Thanks!

Also, Bandit-- Partyball's floor length racoon fur coat got snagged from the gallery.
This is something I've enjoyed sporting over the years so I have a vested interest
in seeing it returned. Please do so. Thanks!

Do get out and vote, it's very important.
Bush must be stopped.
Stop Bush. That's right.
There is an election night party at the Rite Spot...
come on down and celebrate a Kerry victory.
If he loses I'll be looking for husbandry out of the country.
www.ritespotcafe.net

POSTERS! Sean O made some cool Acid Cabaret posters
(see attachment) that say VOTE MOTHERFUCKERS which sport a
semi-raunchy photo of Stephen and myself. They are available
via Sean O for 10-20$ sliding scale. Contact him at
dadoc@dr-seano.com . For those of you who mentioned your interest...
give him a shout. He's going to print, the supply is fairly limited so you better
get on that if it's your thing.

xo annie

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Project Pimento Tonight!
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net
9:00 pm
FREE (donation to the musicians)

PROJECT PIMENTO is a san francisco-based lounge band coming at you live with a potent cocktail of hypnotic sounds from the theremin ixed with swanky lounge tunes from the 40s, 50, and 60s and played in a space-age pop style with hints of jazz, swing and bossa nova sprinkled on top - all for your listening pleasure!
www.projectpimento.com

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n. Lannon
Continental
Meric Long
Wednesday, November 3
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
$7.00

"Listening to Chemical Friends is the aural equivalent of receiving a full-body massage out-doors at a twilight in a gentle pulsing mid-summer shower while R2-D2 recites Shakespearean sonnets to you in his unintelligible but comforting robotic chirp. San Francisco based Nyles Lannon (who thought it would be pretty cool to his first initial in lower-case) has taken a break from his slowcore band, FIlm School, in order to record the most depressingly gorgeous album since Elliott Smith's Either/Or. The Smith comparison is a fairly obvious one and doesn't require a press release to figure out, but there's a confessional tenor to Lannon's songwriting here that necessitates a measure of vocal restraint. Fortunately, his voice attains the gossamer predawn quality of Sam Beam's without veering into the coffeehouse kitsch of Ben Gibbard's girlish yelp.
Jason Killingsworth, Paste Magazine 4 stars
www.nlannon.com

"Four-letter Words has more in common with classic slowcore acts like Low and Bedhead, in that there's genuine emotion seeping up through the smarts. "Leonid" may start out with ear-catching gamelanlike tones and a stuttering drum/ bass figure, but over time its parts smear together in a melancholy evocation of summer's end. Of course, you may not like sadness in your sex life; that's why there's "Pacific Sprawl," with delicate guitar work that escalates into rapid riffing, and "The Regrettable Consequences of Our Well-Worn Blinders," with its slow-building, high-arcing climax."
Dan Stracota
SF Weekly
www.thecontinentalwebsite.com

Meric Long
http://www.theglut.com/issue5/mericlong.html

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Drunk Horse
Acid King
Coup de Grace
Friday, November 5
12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
$8.00

"Birthed from the soil of Oakland, California, Drunk Horse is a band that celebrates the glorious universal music that is Rock and Roll. The beauty of having one’s head caved in by electric guitars and pummeled by the drums. These things they exalt. The sound of Drunk Horse is recognized as a call to arms, a Return to the Riff, a beacon in the fog for those in search of organic, heartfelt and explosive music. A simple idea, and one whose time is nigh. Rock music is a vast frontier, one that was widely explored, but abandoned prematurely. Drunk Horse are picking up the map and compass and heading back out there. In these latter-days of media saturation, if something doesn’t sound overproduced, laptopped and rap-rocked to death, often the cry of “Retro!” is heard. Perhaps we should take a look over our shoulder and see where we turned off the path."
TeePeeRecords.Com
www.drunkhorse.com

Unlike most hard rock, Acid King comes at you from the bottom up. You feel their music's violence and glacial power deep down, in your spine, your hips, your intestines. From there the sound explodes in slow motion, upwards and outwards. The foundation of Acid King's stoned, distorted, heavy rock sound is principal songwriter Lori S.'s monolithic downtuned guitar riffs, which feel like craggy mountains that poke up into the darkness of night. Guy Pinhas complements her on a rumbling, subterranean bass, and together they down some of the most writhing, sinister sounding grooves this side of Black Sabbath. Add in strangled, Satanic vocals from both Lori and Pinhas, some jittery drumming from Joey Osbourne, and massive distortion, and you get some truly monumental doomy stoner rock.
www.epitonic.com
www.acidking.com

"Coup de Grace, is not a band that can be easily lumped into a scene or category. Emo-hell no, Crunk I think not. They just prefer just ROCK, No hyphen's. With the release of their new CD "The Ventura Threeway" (Sonic
Jihad Records). San Francisco's Coup de Grace delivers a stiff back hand of rock, enough to make you forget about pledging your allegiance to just one scene. This a is no-frills band who could care less if you don't like them. For people who like Jesus Lizard, DOA, Motorhead, Queens of the Stone Age and Hasil Adkins."
bikki5@hotmail.com

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More ASS CAB details

annie — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:49:43 GMT

The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep
underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest live and
on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of
speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by
the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack
Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts
across all performance disciplines and
incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous,
starkly beautiful, supremely talented and
horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and
intelligible writing that this type of event is
probably not for the faint at heart or the politically
correct.

If you have a freaky talent: fluff it up, bring it on
down and show us what you've got. No scheduled
performances (besides Rosin Coven and Bride of Ozzy)everything is live and in the moment. Enter at your
own risk!

Rosin Coven will start the show @ 9:00 pm
you don't want to miss these lovely people
and music. Bring it on. Early!
www.rosincoven.com

Friday, October 29
@ The 12 Galaxies San Francisco
2565 Mission St @ 22nd
(this is a private party and you are invited)
9:00 pm
www.12galaxies.com

Tickets are on sale for The Acid Cabaret and are
going fast. The password to buy tickets will be
BROMEDOWN and you can get them at
www.virtuous.com which is the advanced ticket
sales medium that 12 Galaxies uses.
I highly recommend you buy tickets in advance.

10$ advance
15$ at the door in costume
20$ at the door in no costume

We are selling a limited number in advance and
once they are gone, we'll have to wait and see
how the night feels before selling many more at
the door with the idea that Halloween is pretty
transient and people hop around some since there
is so much to do. We have a feeling most people
will be committed to the idea of staying at the
cozy and hospitable 12 Galaxies to enjoy the wild
and entertaining ASS CAB, thusly recommending
you purchase in advance.

We are looking forward to your freakiness!

also, there is a poster that will be for sale for $12.00

Partyball and Pussycat say Vote Mother Fuckers! Look on my profile for a low res image of the poster.

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ass cab!

annie — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:34:17 GMT

Hey y'all--

ASS CAB tickets are selling, I recommend hooking that shit up if you want to make Halloween Eve's Eve your party stop destination. It's rock 0'clock bitches, you better get to steppin`.

We are booking only two acts, long time ASS CAB participants Rosin Coven-- early set at 9:00 pm and Bride of Ozzy who are re-uniting for your pleasure and enjoyment. Everything else is unscheduled and we are hoping you bring your freakiest freakshow acts because we want to turn this mother out.

Tickets at www.12galaxies.com look under the ticket link and BROMEDOWN is the password for the partayyy.

There is some possibility for a few people to work trade for tickets, but that would be on the clean up end of things Saturday afternoon. Please email annie if you are interested.

We're also on the look out for two parachutes, some couches and some carpetting. Throw pillows too! anniesouth@earthlink.net

The hostel directly across the street from 12 Galaxies is called Elements. Grab a room if you need... I hear those are going quickly also, especially due to the Halloween weekend.

Can't wait to see you there!

Other news, DPW in San Francisco is going full force on fining clubs, bars and even bands who flyer illegally. Bottom of the Hill is suffering big time from these citations (over 10 grand in fines) and basically getting harrassed by DPW officers coming in during busy business hours and demanding tickets be paid on the spot or private contact information be given up on the bands who are charged. There also trying to hold the other bands responsible that are on the flyer. It all sounds pretty illegal to me and it also sounds like there is going to have to be some kind of class action law suit against the city to get this to stop. The big issue is the problem of the squeeky wheel getting the grease because it's a well known fact that those who complain about stuff like this get hit extra hard with under cover cops, under age stings and make your life a living hell as a bar owner/manager. I'll recommend here that bands and promoters not flyer at all until this all gets straightened out. Here's a link that maps it all out (kind of).

http://www.sfdpw.org/sfdpw/signs/signage_code.pdf

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Friends and Colleagues:
Whether I have mentioned to you or not, the Castro Theatre is in serious trouble. The owner of the business, in his desire for sure profit, has made drastic staffing cuts and is on the verge of fucking things up for good by monkeying with programming. Anita Monga, who has programmed the theatre since 1986, long before this present owner/adminstration, has guided the Theatre through heavy times, the good and the bad years, to be able to make the Castro a unique movie theatre experience, not just locally but internationally. If the Castro Theatre goes, an important cultural institution will forever perish. We all know the state of movie exhibiton, so this is no exageration. The less venues there are to show unique, interesting,
non-mainstream films, the less opportunity filmmakers will have to make those kinds of films.
>>
This might be hard to imagine today, but the current owner's father ran the Castro Theatre into the ground in the late 60s, early 70s, showing third-run in a crappy state of disrepair. He had hoped to turn that piece of land into a seemingly more profitable apartment building. It was the passion of programmer Mel Novikoff who took over operations, and created the beautiful Castro we know today, cultivating an audience for classics and independents. Anita Monga took up Novikoff's vision when he passed away.
>>
Make no mistake: The current owner is cut from the same cloth as his father. He has no passion for film and certainly has no sense of what the Castro Theatre means to people.
>>
I include below a request to you made by the staff of the Castro Theatre. Whether you have, in recent times, come to see theatrical premieres of extraordinary docs like The Corporation or The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, gorgeous revivals of The Leopard, La Dolce Vita or Tokyo
Story, or have come to the Asian American, SF International, Frameline Lesbian and Gay, the Arab or the many other film festivals we host, you know how important this theatre is.
>>
>>Thank You, and please pass this on.
>>CHRISTIAN BRUNO
>>
Dear Friend:
Can you do a favor?
>>
Can you write a simple letter of appreciation for the Castro
Theatre? Some critical points to make (if you’re comfortable doing
so) are:

1) The programming is interesting and intelligent and is one
of the things that sets the theatre apart.

2) The staff is intelligent, knowledgeable and responsive to the
audience’s needs, and is one of the things that sets the theatre apart.

3) The theatre is a vital part of the cultural life of the Bay Area.
Please be positve. Any negativity, including fears about the theatre’s
future or pleas to save the theatre will be extemely counterproductive.
Rather, take the tone of a recommendation letter or a simple thank you note.
You can address it to the Castro Theatre.

This doesn’t have to be long (unless you feel inspired)—a few
sentences will do. If you can write it on letterhead and mail it to
Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco CA 94114, or attach it to
e-mail and send it to castrotheatre@aol.com, that’d be great. If you think of
anyone else who might appreciate what we’re doing, let me know to contact.

If you feel that you can do this, please don’t delay. The next few weeks
are critical.

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Tue Oct 12
n. Lannon
Thee More Shallows
This is a Process of a Still Life
Hemlock Tavern
www.hemlocktavern.com
10pm, $7

"Listening to Chemical Friends is the aural equivalent of receiving a full-body massage out-doors at a twilight in a gentle pulsing mid-summer shower while R2-D2 recites Shakespearean sonnets to you in his unintelligible but comforting robotic chirp. San Francisco based Nyles Lannon (who thought it would be pretty cool to his first initial in lower-case) has taken a break from his slowcore band, FIlm School, in order to record the most depressingly gorgeous album since Elliott Smith's Either/Or. The Smith comparison is a fairly obvious one and doesn't require a press release to figure out, but there's a confessional tenor to Lannon's songwriting here that necessitates a measure of vocal restraint. Fortunately, his voice attains the gossamer predawn quality of Sam Beam's without veering into the coffeehouse kitsch of Ben Gibbard's girlish yelp.
Paste Magazine
www.nlannon.com

"Just when you think independent rock is a lost cause, some unknown band makes an album like this one. Thee Shallows take the middle of the night intimacy of Arab Strap and filter it through the fragility of Neutral Milk Hotel to create music that is powerful, yet so delicate that it seems to fall apart in your head as whispered notes barely travel the space from your speakers to your ears... Simply an awestriking debut... one of those albums that is very hard to write about because when you listen to it, all you want to do is listen to it."
www.theemoreshallows.com

This is a Process of a Still Life are an instrumental band from Missoula, MT, that plays pretty mellow ambient based music. They ’ve drawn comparisons to Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Tarentel, and Sonna.

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October 20
Comets on Fire
EZ Tiger (CD release)
Flying Luttenbachers (CD release)
Le Flange Du Mal
12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission St @ 22nd
9:00 pm
only $5.00!

"Bringing their tales of drug crazed space travelers, grave robbers in love, and cosmic cannibals, COMETS ON FIRE are ready to initiate unsuspecting audiences into their lair of psychosis. Based in Santa Cruz, CA. this enigmatic group of space rockers consists of Noel Harmonson workin' the Echoplex (a delay and echo device that dates back to the early days of rock), Ethan Miller distorting the guitar and vox, Ben Flashman on bass, Ben Chasny on guitar, and Utrillo Kushner assaulting the drums. COMETS ON FIRE deliver dark and damaged acid rock served in a crude and blown out speedball of BLUE CHEER, HIGH RISE, JAMES WILLIAMSON, and a shit-faced-drunk BRIAN ENO-era ROXY music. Methamphetamine and Schnapps drenched lullabies take it straight into the sonic shit storm, shifting from 4/4 power rock to imploding free form."
http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=cometsonfire

"San Francisco has spawned a ton of brainy music freaks...my favorite new comic geniuses: E-ZEE TIGER. The one-man band is an experience all fans of Lightning Bolt/Friends Forever/25 Suaves should jump on ASAP; it fits nicely in that clan of noisy, misbehaved, feedback-rich rock. Live, Tiger (AKA Anthony Petrovic) creates songs like no other musician I've witnessed. Surrounded by more equipment than most fully populated bands...playing a riff on his guitar, looping the sound, setting up a bass line and looping that, pushing some other buttons and adding a layer of delayed noise, looping his vocals, and then playing drums live and singing over the whole cacophony to punch out a fully formed song."
Jennifer Maerz, Seattle Stranger

"The [FLYING LUTTENBACHERS] music draws inspiration from no wave, a spontaneous-sounding and previously little-known early-'80s subgenre that mixed punk, funk, and jazz with much dissonance."
San Francisco Bay Guardian
http://nowave.pair.com/luttenbachers/new_contents.html.

LE FLANGE DU MAL is Jason Stamberger (Crack:We Are Rock), Chris Rolls (Ziegenbock Kopf and Kimosciotic Records), Chris Clones (Subarachnoid Space) and Liz Albee (who's played with Crash Worship, Anthony Braxton, Murder Murder and about every awesome person in the San Francisco Bay Area). The line-up is synth, mutated drums, mutated trumpet, vocals and food.
www.kimosciotic.com/news.htm

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Chris Whitley
Jeffrey Luck Lucas
Saturday, October 23
@ 12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission St @ 22nd
San Francisco, CA
9:00 pm
$12.00

"...dosed with enough hypnotic soul to render a listen rapt and unconscious (to be sure, the guy writes some knockouts). Whitley's spectral vocals and stinging, robust guitar and banjo work (who works a National like Whitley?) again transcend measure, leaving one to speculate as to who posesses the deed to his soul (surely, there has been divine, if not diabolical, intervention). These various talents comprise Whitley's actual gift: the avbility to transport an audience to a place of still beauty with ambrosial air. If it's not the heaven we're admonished to seek, then it must surely be the Hotel Vast Horizon."
Harp Magazine
www.chriswhitley.com

"A blur of cheap whiskey and late, sleepless nights thickens the haze of despair and self-doubt embedded in the music of Jeffrey Luck Lucas. His scratchy voice stews and simmers underneath thick, slow-crawling arrangements, the whole experience coming off like a murky hallucination bubbling from some urban swamp-puddle at your feet. Dark and intense."
Editor's Review C|Net Music
www.jeffreylucklucas.com

:::

Tickets and info for Corn Maze are now available at
http://www.cherrygalaxy.com/cornmaze

Please buy your tickets soon (before this weekend!) so we can get them
to you in time. There will be a will call but it's much better for us if

you buy in advance. There is a ticket limit but if we don't hit it,
we'll sell them at the gate for $5 more. If you're in SF, you could get
them from me in person by calling 415-299-1822.

REMEMBER to COSTUME YOURSELVES WARMLY, people. We can hope this weather
holds up (how freaking nice is it in SF right now), but it prolly won't.

There will be heat lamps and hot buttered rum.

DJ lineup and directions are forthcoming on the web site. Hit me with
questions at stabulence@cherrygalaxy.com.

Yours in corn,
Greg/Bodo/Stabby

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The Dirty Pictures first album, Shuttin' Out the World (produced and
engineered by Desmond Shea)the baby we've been birthing for the past
year and half has finally arrived! It looks fantastic and sounds amazing,
if we do say so ourselves.

It is available for sale online at:

http://www.cdbaby.com/dirtypictures

Enormous thanks to everyone who helped us get it this far, and huge thanks
to all of you who are, even as you read this, logging on to CDBaby to buy
the album and put food in our bellies.

Please help us spread the word, forward this announcement to all your
friends, and remember, The Dirty Pictures makes a great holiday gift.

We'd also love to see you this Sunday, 10/10 at 1pm outside Arizmende's
Bakery on 10th and Judah for a live show and bakery yummies!

Stop by and purchase an album direct from the horses mouth and autographed!

Cheers, enjoy the music!

Pierce & Mac (The Dirty Pictures)

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from Sarah Harbin

Ladies and Gentlemen, SparkleMotion is going on our first tour - with the
OdeonBar. Tell everyone you kow in Portland and Seattle - post it to tribe,
whatever. We have to fill 700 person venues.

The show is likely to be one of the funnest nights ever with all sorts of
rediculousness and absurdity.

Also, for those in SF, we will be warming up our new numbers at the Odeon on
October 15th and 12 Galaxies at the Acid Caberet on October 29th.

Chicken John Describes SparkleMotion:
" Sparkle Motion is 5 girls trapped in a spandex time warped performance
humility experiment. A show that started in a bedroom mirror with a
hairbrush for a microphone… but then Chicken John gave them a stage…"

Tour Details:

Friday Nov 5th
Dante's
1 SW 3rd Ave Portland, OR
(503) 226-6630
www.danteslive.com

AND
Saturday Nov 6th
The Catwalk Club
172 S. Washington
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 622-1863

Show begins at 9:00 with Krob and videos.
9:30 Dr. Hal dinosaur slide show
10:00 Will Franken
10:15 sparkle motion
10:25 famous
10:40 Roky Roulette
10:45 don paul
10:55 yashi
11:10 Hot pink
11:20 rubberboy
11:35 Lonesome Doormen
11:45 Loop Station
12:00 Zoli
12:10 kitten
12:25 Toshio
12:45 Dammit
12:55 Sparlke motion
1:05 Sing along with Chicken & Hal
1:25 show ends
undcheck 6:00. Dinner 7:00. Doors at 8:00. Same show
schedule.

>Greeting. We at the Odeon Bar are pleased to
>announce plans to travel north and do what we do best; confuse the people.

>Krob is our music confabulator. He is a soundscape
>artists and video collage mixer. His work is disturbing and
>hysterical. Undescribable.
>
>Dr. Hal Robins is the founder of the Church of the
>Subgenius. The sage of the Odeon Bar, he is all knowing, all seeing. Hal
>mentally bench presses language and has thousands of poem committed
>to memory including the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the
>Prophet and many JRR Tolkien just to name a few. As a member of the
>scientific community, amateur paleontologist Dr. Hal will give a 30 minute
>slide show of the history of dinosaurs. It may sound a bit wholesome,
>but this show is the most fascinating, relevant and astute social
>commentary on our culture today. No shit.
>
http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/LA-SF2000/1head/
>
>1head.html click through the pictures it's
>fun!
>
>Will Franken weaves countless comedic characters
>into a ridiculious web that captures you and will not let you go. The
>first
>time I saw him I almost peed my pants. He is really funny.
>http://willfranken.com/
>
>Sparkle Motion is 5 girls trapped in a spandex time
>warped performance humility experiment. A show that started in a
>bedroom mirror with a hairbrush for a microphone… but then Chicken John
>gave them a stage…
>
>The Famous are an avant-country group. Their hit;
>Daly City Lady will be blasting out of Caprice Classics’ all over the
>country any minute now. Call their hot line:
>1-800-2FAMOUS
>http://www.thefamous.net/
>
>Roky Roulette is the worlds only pogo stick jumping
>strip tease artist. He takes it all off without ever missing a jump.
>Awesome!!!
>
http://www.loficustoms.com/artshows/mar_2004/images/roky6.jpg
>
>Maxwell Coldpepper, Master of Forbidden Arts will
>perform a mysterious magical re-animation of a GOLEM!!!! SCARY!!!!!
>
>Jascha Ephraim is a new wave leotard disaster. His
>music is urban contemporary. An eclectic mix of Prince, easy
>listening and Devo. But when you listen to the lyrics it’s punk fucking
>rock. His song “It’s raining astronauts” is just plain wrong. But the
>casual laise-faire feel good song of the 70’s vibe is morbid and silly.
>His show includes a wonderment of visuals displayed on mammoth screen
>on stage that he can’t stop looking at as he’s singing. He’s a weird
>guy.
>http://www.jaschaephraim.com/
>
>Kellita from the Hot Pink Feathers has an award
>winning ass. No shit, at the international burlesque festival in NYC last
>year she won an award for having the best ass in burlesque. You’ll
>see why. Kellita will dance to Samba grooves and generally be the
>most energetic and cute thing in our show.
>http://www.hotpinkfeathers.com/
>
>Daniel Browning Smith is the Rubberboy. Star of
>stage and screen (most notably next seasons’ Carnival) Daniel is the son
>Chicken never had. The most flexible man alive, his show will leave you
>feeling like you are 2 dimensional. The only thing more twisted than
>his body is the dialog that you will share with him while he sticks
>his elbow in his ear, puts his chin on his spine and wraps his quaint
>southern demeanor around your heart.
>http://www.therubberboy.com/
>
>The door is a lonely place, especially at the Odeon
>Bar, where a doorman sees a great many things but doesn’t have
>anyone to tell them about. So we gave Burke and Phoenix 15 minutes of
>stage time to recall and recount the endless strange nights that have
>given them the wisdom to help make the word a better place, but not enough
>for them to get a real job.
>
>Loop Station is the name of an effects pedal used by
>singer Robin and chellist Sam to create endless layers of
>sound-on-sound replacing the standard band mold. The result is intimate,
>powerful
>music that totally rocks. Loop Station is the most interesting musical
>act that ever graced the Odeon stage.
>
http://www.pattontrader.com/xtrememusic/portfolio/loopstation.html
>
>Zoli is an idiot.
>
>Kitten on the Keys. What can I say about the best
>piano player in SF? (although I heard she really sucks on the organ!).
>Kitten is a cute-as-button, with foot fetish, a giant vibrator
>and a ukulele. Her song “Grandma sells my panties on E-bay” is going to
>stay in your mind for months. Her voice is in the realm of Keely Smith
>or a gospel singer. And her mind is in the gutter.
>http://www.suzanneramsey.net/
>
>Toshio Hirano. Old tyme country western from way out
>East. Toshio is the most sincere performer I have ever met. He
>learned Jimmy Rodgers’ song repertoire whilst still residing in his
>native
>Japan. Before he learned English. Engrish. He is damn good, and his
>love for country blues is monumental. Adorable.
>
>Dammit the Amazing Wonder Dog is 15 years old this
>year. Dammit has had crowds cheering since her first tour with Circus
>Redickuless in 1994 and shows no sign of stopping. She might not jump as
>high or bite as hard, but she is still the act that no one wants to
>go on after. Her routine of tricks has been witnessed by hundreds of
>thousands of people and every one of them points and says “That damn
>dog!!!”
>http://www.dammit.org/circus/
>
>Sing Along With Chicken & Hal is a small combo of
>musicians including Chicken John on guitar and Dr. Hal singing. A
>ridiculous journey that illuminates the forgotten songs of the past by
>spicing them up and Hal laying them down. A very unlikely but very good
>rockin' romp.... really fun.
>
> > and thank you chicken john

::::

The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest live and on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts across all performance disciplines and incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous, starkly beautiful, supremely talented and horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct.

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Dr. Abacus tonight

annie — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:32:08 GMT

October 11- tonight
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St. @ 22nd
www.ritespotcafe.net
Dr. Abacus (members of Rosin Coven)
9:00 pm FREE

"Complete with their own version of the Sesame Street theme, Dr. Abacus is puttin' it down with what we lovingly call cartoon jazz, Zappa jazz or just crazy jazz. Unleashing an unabashedly quirky, flamboyant and caffeinated weird Jazz composite with enough spunk to keep your nervous twitchin' up to speed, this group, armed with their 64-count jumbo box of half-eaten crayons, is refusing to stay in the lines and keep the glue bottles out of their noses."
Derek Sivers
President, CD Baby & Hostbaby
www.dr-abacus.com

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ASS CAB/Halloween

annie — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:57:14 GMT

Tickets will go on sale for The Acid Cabaret on
October 1st. The password to buy tickets will be
BROMEDOWN and you can get them at
www.virtuous.com which is the advanced ticket
sales medium that 12 Galaxies uses.
I highly recommend you buy tickets in advance.

10$ advance
15$ at the door in costume
20$ at the door in no costume

We are selling a limited number in advance and
once they are gone, we'll have to wait and see
how the night feels before selling many more at
the door with the idea that Halloween is pretty
transient and people hop around some since there
is so much to do. We have a feeling most people
will be committed to the idea of staying at the
cozy and hospitable 12 Galaxies to enjoy the wild
and entertaining ASS CAB, thusly recommending
you purchase in advance.

We are looking forward to your freakiness!

xo annie and stephen

PS we are looking for some carpeting, couches,
pillows and general acid cabaret ish comfort items
for the show. end of summer cleaning? know
someone who does have any of these items? let
me know!

ALSO

There is a brand new, beautiful hostel across the
street from 12 Galaxies you out of towners might
want to check out.

http://www.hostels.com/en/availability.php/HostelN
umber.6906

I think a private room is like 56 bucks a night and
this is literally across the street. There is a nice
restaurant in it and it's a brand new building that
looks pretty sweet. Convenient if nothing else.

Annie

:::

The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep
underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest live and
on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of
speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by
the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack
Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts
across all performance disciplines and
incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous,
starkly beautiful, supremely talented and
horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and
intelligible writing that this type of event is
probably not for the faint at heart or the politically
correct.

posted in Acid Cabaret - 1 reply

mondo porno

annie — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:11:48 GMT

OH NO! More debauched rock, free smut & sexy stars!

Paradox Media, EditrixAbby, MC and kinky event facilitator of New York City's Gomorrah, Kitsch Inn and Click + Drag (among others), joins impresario Lu Read, of DragStrip fame aka Drag King Fudgie Frottage, "The man with the biggest balls in show business, ”to throw San Francisco's third Mondo Porno party:

Fri 9/24 - Mondo Porno Goes to Hell!

Mondo Porno began in downtown Manhattan as a way to “get rid of all the porn that keeps overwhelming my apartment! ”says the Editrix. Who knew raunchy rock bands, sexy strippers and free smut would be such a winning combination?

First held in November 2002 at Arlene Grocery, on Manhattan ’s Lower East Side, Mondo Porno returned is making its third trip to the historically kinky City by the Bay. With four rock bands, two sexy burlesque artistes, an aerialist troupe, numerous local sex celebrities, a screening of the classic XXX flick The Devil in Miss Jones and armloads of free porn, the evening promises to be the sexiest addition to Folsom Street Weekend in years!

THE FACTS:
Friday, September 24, 2004
At Club Six www.clubsix1.com
60 Sixth Street at Mission Street
Doors at 8:00pm
$10 with flier or printout
$15 without

Upstairs:
At 8:30: The Devil in Miss Jones
Then Live Rock Featuring:
Crumpled Napkin www.crumplednapkin.com
Chix Pack
Whipkraft www.whipkraft.com
and from NYC...Erocktica www.erocktica.net/

TheIndra and Dee DeeLuxe twirl their pasties for you!
Plus erotic aerialist antics by The Vau De Vire Society www.vaudeviresociety.com

Downstairs:
FREE PORN while it lasts!
Schmooze and pose with LA ’s Mistress Norma Jean and Coyote Shivers, SF ’s Selina Raven and Polly Pandemonium and NYC ’s EditrixAbby and Violet Sweet!

Sponsored by and Giveaways from:
Good Vibrations, RedBoard Video, Penthouse, Eros.com and CyberNet Entertainment.

For more info, visit www.mondopornoparty.com

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Loveball

annie — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:02:52 GMT

Ms. Allison Lovejoy aka Loveball you may remember as an acid cabaret piano playing chantooosh (primarily NYE @ The Casanova of the Millenium) is gracing the rite spot with her presence tonight. Beth and Annie are working (it) and so should you.

Come hither, young mr's. and ms's.

ALLISON LOVEJOY plays the piano like nobody's business, and seduces with stories that reveal his, her, and your secrets. Her songs draw upon swing, tangos, classical, blues, and groovin pop, taking you to a different time and place with every one. Former member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (rock), I.J. Smith (hip-hop/urban rock), the San Francisco Sinfionietta, and leader of the Lovejoy Lounge, this one-woman orchestra will rock your world and soothe your soul. With scathing, sexy, and funny lyrics, Allison evokes a time and
place where Kurt Weill, Franz Liszt, Nina Simone, and Fiona Apple could be collaborating over some absynthe.

9:00 pm (2 sets)
FREE
www.ritespotcafe.net

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Burning Man and More

annie — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:34:35 GMT

Partyball and the Mrs and Ms. Annie "I'm not going to burning man" Lameass have been convinced that they should go to Burning Man and will in fact be in the hizzle. Along for the ride will be Malcolm "Bad Clown" Dunne and AJ "Smash" Johnson (Church of Funk). Please let God help us get through this storm and back to salvation. Scary AND exciting.

Please come say hello near the deFUNKed posse` (remnants of Funk Camp) within The Fandango Village @ 6:30 and Earth.

There are rumors of a rogue Acid Cabaret way out at 2:00 and ? way in the back and out of the way but we will believe it when we see it. There is a reason we haven't built a Cabaret out there in a few years... it's a bitch of a hard time bringing a piano to the desert, building an ASS CAB shack and making it loungy enough to convince people to stay and see the show. Look for it and us, apparently Speed Levitch and Dave Umlas (Facility 3) are behind the franchise that we whole-heartedly endorse.

We want to see you all! Let's rock and roll.

PS. You had better have October 29th marked off on your calendar! You are ours for the night! Get your outlandish acts together because this could be the last one for a very, very long time if not forever.

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dr hecklepuss & mr jive/WPN #19/Film School this week

annie — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:51:17 GMT

DR HECKLEPUSS (Fiona) be spinning avant-cum-new-wave/horror soundtrack and ROCK and MR JIVE (myself) will be spinning ROCK that makes you look at your feet, shake your booty and lay off the jive.

It'll be weird and good.

Tuesday, August 24
Casanova Lounge
9:30 pm
FREE

:::::

Women's Performance Night #19
The Elbo Room
Wednesday, August 25
9:00 pm
$6.00

Featuring: Dawn Elin Frazer, Julie Zielinski (Staci Twigg), Odessa Chen, Rykarda Parasol, Caroleen Beatty (Waycross) and Shelley Doty.

Dawn-Elin Fraser is part princess and part pugilist, part noise-pop and part neo-soul, part hedonist and part homebody. She"s a speech and dialect expert who also teaches in all three of American Conservatory Theatre’s actor training programs. Ms. Fraser is the editor of the zine, Fully Crushed Out, the live version of which is coming soon to a theatre near you.

Julie Zielinski is best known as the melodic songstress from San Francisco's indie popsters, staci twigg.
She's been compared to artists ranging from Chan Marshall to Johnette Napolitano because of her unique ability to dynamically voice her songs from whisper-loud to an energetic frenzy.
www.stacitwigg.com

"Her voice is haunting, a high, sweet whisp of sound, sometimes no more than a whisper. Oaklander Odessa Chen’s instrument lingers in the mind long after her origional songs have told their tales of love, regret, longing, and death."
The East Bay Express
www.odessachen.com

"The overall picture of Rykarda Parasol's music is one of somber, tarnished beauty with a smoky cabaret atmosphere. Ms Rykarda possesses a powerful voice resembling a melding of Siouxsie and P.J. Harvey -- slightly ashen and achingly empassioned. It's presented prominently amid the reeling piano, organ, violin and guitar. Hearts and wounds are laid bare in deeply wrought fashion."
Aquarius Records
www.shaketown.com

"Vocalist Caroleen Beatty’s voice is astonishing, emotive and revealed. The lyrics are rich and poetic and downright literary. Her writing is powerful and dark, and at times chills me to the bone. "
Bay Times
www.caroleen.com

"Doty is more than one of the best women guitar players in the country. Shelley Doty is one of the best guitarists out there period. She seems to be imbued with the spirit of the guitar."
Cyberworld
www.shelleydoty.com

::::

Thursday, August 26
12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd St
The Lovemakers
Film School
Silversun Pickups (Los Angeles)
9:30 pm
$8.00

"Oakland's THE LOVEMAKERS yank and stroke the grand gestures of mechanical candy-coated pop; their kind of sassy earnestness embraces electroclash in its mannerisms yet never gets gimmicky or loses any of that beer-stained, hole-in-the-wall integrity that comes from keeping it real."
LA WEEKLY
www.thelovemakers.com

FILM SCHOOL takes elements of shoegaze, psychedelia and indie rock to create their own sound. Winding melodies wrap their way around legions of layered chords. Sonic blasts of guitars simmer into thick waves. A wash of droning guitars merge into delicate melodies. This dynamic mix of atmospheric rock and understated pop swirls into a shimmering soundscape underscored by the plaintive vocals of Krayg Burton.
www.filmschoolmusic.com

"Essentially a throwback to the indie pop/rock bands of the mid-’90s (à la Poster Children), THE SILVERSUN PICKUPS tossed off an inspired set of bummed-out anthems, each filled with inventive progressions, blustery vocals and subtle, almost angular guitar solos. "
LA WEEKLY
(no website)
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The Dead Hensons, Dr. Abacus, Kitten on the Keys Wed @ 12 Galaxies

annie — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:30:42 GMT

south presents:

July 21
The Dead Hensons
Dr. Abacus
Kitten on the Keys
12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St
www.12galaxies.com
9:30 pm
$6.00

"Kid-friendly favorites from "The Muppet Show" and "Sesame Street" get a delightfully quirky, dive-bar treatment courtesy of Bay Area rockers The Dead Hensons, who use a multitude of traditionally not-so-rock instruments, like the banjo and the accordion, to give Miss Piggy, Kermit and the other humanimals something to get drunk to after a long, hard day on the set."
SF Examiner
http://www.niver.net/deadhensons.html

"Complete with their own version of the Sesame Street theme, Dr. Abacus is puttin' it down with what we lovingly call cartoon jazz, Zappa jazz or just crazy jazz. Unleashing an unabashedly quirky, flamboyant and caffeinated weird Jazz composite with enough spunk to keep your nervous twitchin' up to speed, this group, armed with their 64-count jumbo box of half-eaten crayons, is refusing to stay in the lines and keep the glue bottles out of their noses.
www.cdbaby.com
www.dr-abacus.com

"Cute, kicky, irrepressible, irresistible, licentious, lewd, dizzy, delightful -- that's Kitten on the Keys."
Silke Tudor- SF Weekly
www.kittymusic.com

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Fandango BM2k4

Avocado Tom — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:38:39 GMT

If you're camping with Fandango and interested in helping with the bar that we're trying to build/raise-funds-for, check this out:

http://slowburn.tribe.net/

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good to be here

atom — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:07:14 GMT

Hey everyone its good to know that you are all on tribes. I am new to this place but looking forward to checking it all out. When is the next acid cab? Are you all gonna be out at burningman this year and if so do you know all the dirty little details?

atom

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The Newsletter...

annie — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:54:54 GMT

Sadly, I hear that Spanganga is closing! Please get out and enjoy it in it's last month of glory.

Thanks Sean Kelly and crew for providing a great space over the past couple of years. The Acid Cabaret thanks you for all the support you've given us over the years.

http://www.spanganga.com/

I also hear Powell's Fried Chicken is closing after this week...get it while it's hot. Not sure the details but I wouldn't procrastinate!

.......

From Jordan Kurland:

Please take a moment to watch this:

www.actnowproductions.com/fired

It’s the first of what will probably prove to be many anti-Bush/Bush Administration e-mails I’ll be sending over the next few months. Please let me know if you don’t want to be included.

And of course, feel forward to forward liberally.

JSK

......

From Terrance Alan, Chair of the San Francisco Late Night Coalition:

The hearing on the Last Call at 4 AM is scheduled for Monday April 19th at 9
AM in Sacramento. We need 100 people to be at that hearing. Not all will
speak, only a few, but we need BODIES!!! Yes folks, it could be this simple,
100 people meet at the End-Up at 6 AM on Monday morning for complimentary
coffee, Red Bull and Krispy Kremes. Then on to the bus we go. You will be
given buttons and badges to wear. Everything will be done for you, but you
need to show up.

So far we only have 37 people and need 100.

We have a bus.

We have coffee and Krispy Kremes.

We have Red Bull.

We need bodies!

Forward this email everywhere you think folks will respond. Time is running
out.

REMEMBER! With your support, anything is possible,

Email confirmation of your desire to ride the bus to: terrance@SFLNC.com

Terrance Alan
Chairman
San Francisco Late Night Coalition.

WRITE LELAND YEE:

we need support e-mails sent to Assemblyman Leland Yee. As a San
Francisco Assemblyman, his support at the April 19th hearing will be very
important, but he has not yet taken a position. Please urge Assemblyman Yee
to join Mayor Newsom, Assemblyman Leno & the Board of Supervisors in
supporting AB 2433 at: Assemblymember.Yee@assembly.ca.gov

......

A Message from the National Association to PROTECT Children
February-March, 2004
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Here's your chance to help:
Read this and SEND IT
to everyone you know!
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Dear Friend:

How many times in recent years have you watched horrible news reports of a
child who was abducted and hurt by a stranger? It made your heart break and
your blood boil, didn't it?

You have a chance to fight back right now.

For every child taken from her bed by a stranger in the middle of the night,
there are thousands MORE whose monsters are much closer to home. There are
no news bulletins or search parties for them. But these little boys and
girls pray in the night just the same that someone will care... and make
their suffering stop.

Please take a minute to stand up for them today!

--------------------------------------
TAKE ACTION NOW FOR THE "BATTIN BILL"
---------------------------------------

Nearly 23 years ago, California passed an unbelievable law. It virtually
DECRIMINALIZED sex with children, so long as it was committed by a family
member! The law said that if you raped or molested the neighbor's child, you
would do prison time. But if you raped or molested your OWN child or
step-child... you were eligible for probation.

Imagine explaining that to a child who has already been betrayed.

Now California state senator Jim Battin has introduced an extremely
important bill to overturn this law. The Battin Bill (SB 1803) will close
the intentional loopholes that reward predators who "grow their own
victims."

This obscene law has stood for 23 years. Now we have a real chance to
overturn it. But we need your help right away. Winning this battle is not
just important for California children -- it will send a powerful message
across all America.

---------------------------------------
HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO:
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1. FORWARD this email to everyone you can -- especially in California! If
you don't know any Californians, don't worry, it will get there eventually.

2. LET US KNOW HOW TO REACH YOU WHEN IT'S TIME TO ACT!! Nobody wins a fight
with just one email. We need to find every possible supporter right now and
get them ready to move swiftly when the time is right. Take half a minute
to visit our website and let us know you are on board. Then we will contact
you when your urgent action is needed the most. (Don't worry, PROTECT will
NOT flood you with unwanted email!) You can also read much more about the
bill there.

Go to: http://www.protect.org/california/caNews.html

3. AND IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA... Contact all of your legislators right
away and ask them to support SB 1803 (the Battin bill). You can find and
email them by clicking here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html We're
not giving you a form letter, because they don't work! Make it short and
positive and please use your local California address. If you have a
business, include that. If you can write an old-fashioned letter, that's
twice as good!

Check back at www.protect.org often for important updates.

--THE STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS AT PROTECT

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PROTECT--The National Association to PROTECT Children
46 Haywood Street, Suite 315, Asheville, NC 28801
PHONE: 828-350-9350 FAX: 828-350-9352
WEBSITE: www.protect.org EMAIL: info@protect.org

35 million senior citizens joined the AARP.
4 million gun owners joined the NRA.
750,000 animal rights advocates joined PETA.
Have you joined PROTECT yet?

PROTECT is a national pro-children, anti-crime membership association
dedicated to providing political strength and leadership for the protection
of abused, exploited and neglected children. Visit us at
http://www.protect.org.

Click on the link below to be removed from the PROTECT Updates List.
http://www.protect.org/cgi-bin/email_list.pl?lookoutliver@hotmail.com

........

CUTTHROAT'S 9, AMBER ASYLUM, THE MASS
TONIGHT!
Wednesday, April 7
12 Galaxies
www.12galaxies.com
Mission @ 22nd
9:00 pm
$8.00

"As with a pot of water left simmering above fire for too long,
Anger Management - Cutthroats 9's second disc - boils over, rather
explodes, with searing heat and violence. With his previous outfit
Unsane, Chris Spencer (guitar/vocals) assisted in pioneering a more
aggressive, less studied direction for noise rock, and for that
matter, hardcore and extreme music in general. While developing the
blueprint for noise-metal bands to follow, Spencer cut a remarkable,
hearing damaged swath through underground music, inspiring a
devoted, cult-like following around the globe for a decade."
http://www.reptilianrecords.com/reptilian/cutthroats09.html

"AmberAsylum...a filmic fusion of modern classical and post-
rock...where arias and Art Songs meet in a pale field of electronic
disturbance. Equally at home in the opera house or the smoky,
raucous din of an underground nightclub, AmberAsylum plumbs the
crevass between noise and beauty. Lyrical, confessional, dark yet
aspirant, their strings, vocals, and spare percussion billow like
furious mists across your consciousness.
Dark as it is beautiful, spare as it is complex, its supernaturally
decadent powers will overtake you in the remote reaches of your
imagination. There's no escaping the Asylum. And no reason you'd
want to. "
www.neurot.com
www.amberasylum.com

"Calling all fans of FantÔmas, The Dillinger Escape Plan or Mr
Bungle, there is a new band in town. The Mass owes most of their
sound to the previously mentioned bands. Not the three minute rock
standards from them , oh no., it's all jagged rhythms and mad sax
breaks. The strangest thing about `City Of Dis' is the fact that it
sounds cohesive. It's not easy listening, but then I suppose it's
not meant to be. Dog Fashion Disco have a more pop mentality,
whereas The Mass probably owe more to Frank Zappa's weirder moments -
I mean, how can you not love an album that contains a song
called `We Enslaved Elves To Build Our Death Machine'? To wrap it
all up in a nice box, The Mass are a euro metal (but from Oakland
CA), art rock, jazz fusion, death metal, pop group. Got that? Good."
-- review of City of Dis in Rock Sound (UK), November 2003
www.themass.us

....

Crackwhore presents:

TONIGHT!

VERONICA LIPGLOSS & THE EVIL EYE
CONDOR
MR&MR&MR&MR&MR EVIL
THE BOY EXPLODES

At The Elbo Room
647 Valencia btwn 17th & 18th
doors at 8pm show at 9
$6 cover

....

Thursday, April 8
WPN # 15
The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St @ Post
8:00 pm
$6.00

in order of appearance:

LIANA ALLDAY can't finish a song in one sitting. Somewhere in the gray area between indecisivness and A.D.D. is a trapdoor that she falls through right after completing a verse. Lucky for you the songs are all written by the
time you come to see her play. Liana Allday will say Carol King if you say Linda Ronstadt. She will say Leonard Cohen if you say Rod McKuen. She will say Mark David Chapman if you say Sirhan Sirhan. Liana Allday was the better half of Ha the Disco Ah!. She is the slice of seitan in the Madera Road hoagie. Come see her as a free radical.
www.maderaroad.com

Suzanne Ramsey, AKA pianist and chanteuse KITTEN ON THE KEYS ,writes naughty ditties that will tickle your funnybone and stir your nethers! Her vaudevillian musical shenanigans won her the SF Weekly Music Award for New Genre/Beyond in 2003. Her 3rd CD ,on her own Rug Burn Records San Francisco, " (It's not a) Pretty Princess Day", is due out late spring!
Kitten on the Keys is representing the San Francisco Burlesque Scene in Nantes, France in March 2004! Oh La La!
www.suzanneramsey.net

JULIE ZIELINSKI is best known as the melodic songstress from San Francisco's indie popsters, staci twigg. She's been compared to artists ranging from Chan Marshall to Johnette Napolitano because of her unique ability to dynamically voice her songs from whisper-loud to an energetic frenzy.
www.stacitwigg.com

The music of Austin's GINGER LEIGH is a cocktail of styles. Her original music takes ingredients from jazz and blues and is topped off with her own brand of pop. www.gleigh.com

"Voice of the Year: CAROLEEN BEATTY of WAYCROSS. When she opens her mouth, sound swells forth with the authority of an orchestra ascending in unison at the conductor's opening cue." -- Ian Brennan, ZERO Magazine
www.caroleen.com

WILLOW WILLOW "Melodically reminiscent of the gentler side of Lennon & McCartney, the first lyrics state clearly a sentiment felt by all music lovers: "When I hear that fine music soft and clear The urge in me is to be
part of all its beauty... " www.performermag.com

"The overall picture of RYKARDA PARASOL's music is one of somber, tarnished beauty with a smoky cabaret atmosphere. Ms Rykarda possesses a powerful voice resembling a melding of Siouxsie and P.J. Harvey -- slightly ashen and achingly empassioned". Aquarius Records
www.shaketown.com/rmp

........

From Zoetrope April Newsletter
SAN FRANCISCO

~ Thursday, April 8, 8:00 PM ~

In the age of stem cell research, the magazine joins forces with local storytelling series Porch LighT to deliver an evening’s entertainment all about twins. Anchoring the program will be a performance of "Twin Study," a story by National Magazine Award–winner Stacey Richter from Zoetrope: All-Story’s spring release, “The California Issue.” There will be twin comedians, dueling songsmiths, mini-duets by a cast of local musicians, and more storytelling by Porch Light vet and father of twins, Chris Mittelstaedt.

Doors open at 7:00 PM. Show starts at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $10 and available at the door. The Italian-Athletic Club (1630 Stockton Street at Union Street in North Beach) hosts.

......

[the]Caseworker
Minmae
Built Like Alaska

Friday, April 9
Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck AVe
Berkeley, CA

9:00 pm
$6.00

There is a nice little preview of this show at:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-04-07/cal-urban.html/1/index.html

"[the] caseworker have found a sonic medium that's both blissfully charming and provocative, giving it an overall soothing, yet unharnessed, sound. These Weeks Should Be Remembered is evident of their conscious desire to keep things simple. It's simply gorgeous".
-- All Music Guide.
www.caseworkermusic.com

MINMAE Sean writes excellent songs - there's a general melancholy about them, I feel, but not in an obnoxious Lou Barlow-way. His voice is fragile, but it's his voice that holds this project together. This is your basic 3 piece (guitar, bass, drums) in one way, with a big of a shoegaze feel, but Sean Brooks creates moments that you remember.
www.digitalindustries.com
--Minmae's record True Love remains an all time favorite of mine, it's perfection all the way around. This band is incredible live and I hope to see you East Bay and non-east bay people out at this show. GREAT line up. (annie)
www.minmae.com

Loose, fuzzy indie-rock and nestled, contemplative sweeping pop. Built Like Alaska's debut, Hopalong is a mature, diverse record that proves a weepy acoustic number can, and does, go well next to a bouncy, guitar-soaked rocker. The two sides of the band tug and pull at your emotions as you find yourself crying with them one minute, as you both share a smile and a laugh the next. At times majestic and other times dirty, the serene rock of Built Like Alaska mirrors the cold, light climate of the land in which is takes its name from. www.inmusicwetrust.com
www.builtlikealaska.com

.........

@ Hemlock Tavern
Wednesday, April 14th
Neung Phak, The Soft
10pm, $8

[Neung Phak is the alter ego of the band Monopause who appeared on ACTV]
Pronunciation: 'noong' pAHk, Function: noun, Etymology: Thai language

1 a : Southeast Asian bar band b: a Bay Area Southeast Asian bar band c: Mono Pause in a different guise d: Mono Pause plus and minus additional personnel

2 a: Intercepted trans/emissions from the airwaves and cassette libraries of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Oakland, China and elsewhere b: a group field recording exercise

3. Another fine Lao specialty (hoo mok kai- neung pak ) consists of steamed chicken marinated with spicy herbs, then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed again. Inside the leafy packet the chicken simmers in coconut milk for a dense, creamy consistency, while an artful spray of green onions carved like flowers accompanies these plump envelopes.

Soft hail from Kyoto, Japan. They are part of Japan's psy-trance movement (along with friends and gig-mates the Boredoms). They've been performing since 1993. Musically, Soft are on the quieter, ambient, rhythm driven, dub side of things. Their guitar player, Shimizu, describes the experience of seeing them live as, "moments of looking up through dry winter air there lies Mt. Fuji...going back and forth between this place and that."

......

An American Starlet (cd release)
Ray's Vast Basement
Rykarda Parasol
Thursday, April 15
Cafe Du Nord
9:00 pm
$7.00

AN AMERICAN STARLET combines the heartache of classic country with the minor-key flare of Northwest indie rock. The Duchess of Hazard, the band's second outing, might as well be its first; following the release of 2001's overlooked Sweet Country Melodies [sic], singer-songwriter Ian Parks disbanded the group (then based in San Francisco) and relocated to Seattle to meet up with longtime friend Liz Green. The two quickly discovered a vocal chemistry in the vein of Gram and Emmylou.
No Depression
www.starletsweb.com

Finally, the second and final (?) installment in the epic musical/fictional world that is RAY'S VAST BASEMENT. Smoke-y and murky song-stories following the life and times of the residents of Drakeville. Dreamy and surreal, By A River Burning Blue is equal parts Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, classic Nebraska-era Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Butch Hancock, Dire Straits, etc. Slow melancholy classic sounding rock songs, lushly produced, intimate and hushed. Sweet and lovely.
Aquarius Records
www.raysvastbasement.com

The overall picture of RYKARDA PARASOL's music is one of somber, tarnished beauty with a smoky cabaret atmosphere. Ms Rykarda possesses a powerful voice resembling a melding of Siouxsie and P.J. Harvey -- slightly ashen and achingly empassioned.
Aquarius Records
www.shaketown.com

........

From the Guardian UK

On the Brink of Anarchy
US Now Fighting on Two Fronts

by Julian Borger in Washington and Jonathan Steele in Baghdad
Published on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 by the Guardian/UK

The Bush administration was last night facing a nightmare scenario in Iraq, fighting on two fronts against Sunni and Shia militants less than three months before it is due to hand over power to an Iraqi government.
Facing a critical moment in the effort to pacify the country, President George Bush vowed he would not budge from his June 30 deadline for the transition to self-rule, while US forces in Iraq opted for a high-risk strategy of attempting to crush both insurgent groups simultaneously.

American officials in Baghdad announced an arrest warrant for a radical Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, whose black-uniformed Mahdi militia revolted against coalition forces at the weekend, killing seven American soldiers in the Baghdad district known as Sadr City. Up to 30 Iraqis were also killed in the clashes, the worst the capital has seen since its fall to US troops a year ago.

In another sign of their tougher strategy, US forces used Apache gunships to attack targets in Baghdad for the first time since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime. The helicopters opened fire over the Shia neighborhood of Shulla after militants destroyed a US armored vehicle.

Meanwhile, a force of 1,300 US marines and Iraqi troops began moving into the town of Falluja in an attempt to regain control of the Sunni stronghold, which signaled its defiance last week by the torching, dismemberment and display of the bodies of four American private security guards, ambushed in the town center by insurgents. The marines imposed a curfew and closed the Baghdad-Amman road that runs past the town.

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, the foreign minister of US ally Qatar, said last night: "We fear that we are facing a civil war in Iraq, reminding me of what happened in Afghanistan and Lebanon."

Faced with a rapidly deteriorating security situation and the prospect of a civil war following the transfer of power to a yet-to-be-determined Iraqi government, the US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, cancelled a visit to Washington to deal with the crisis.

The US military commander, General John Abizaid, was considering the reinforcement of his 105,000-strong army of occupation. According to Pentagon officials, Gen Abizaid gave his aides 48 hours to come up with ideas on where fresh troops, American or allied, could be found.

Mention of reinforcements has been taboo in the Bush administration as it faces re-election in November, but the revolt in Shia majority areas on Sunday, a few days after the Falluja killings, triggered profound anxiety in Washington.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said last night: "The administration really seems to be stubbornly refusing to do what's necessary to avoid the kind of disintegration that's taking place, and now we see continued violence."
Mr Kerry echoed senior Republicans and Democrats who called for a rethink of the June 30 deadline. But Mr Bush insisted the date remained firm.

"The message to the Iraqi citizens is they don't have to fear that America will turn and run, and that's an important message for them to hear," he said. "If they think that we're not sincere about staying the course, many people will not continue to take the risk to ward freedom and democracy." The president committed US forces to tracking down Mr Sadr. "This is one person who is deciding that rather than allow democracy to flourish, he's going to exercise force. And we just can't let it stand. As I understand, the CPA today announced the warrant for his arrest."

However, officials of the Coalition Provisional Authority said the warrant was issued months ago by an Iraqi judge investigating the murder a year ago of a rival Shia cleric, Abdel Majid al-Khoei. The warrant remained secret and no overt effort was made to detain Mr Sadr. Making the warrant public staked the credibility of the occupation authorities.
Asked when Mr Sadr would be picked up, Dan Senor, a CPA spokesman, said: "There will be no advance warning."
Mr Sadr, 30, the scion of a line of revered Shia leaders, was reported to have sought sanctuary in a mosque in his home base of Kufa near the holy city of Najaf, and his supporters pledged to fight to the death in his defense.

"I'm accused by one of the leaders of evil, Bremer, of being an outlaw," Mr Sadr said in a defiant statement. "If that means breaking the law of the American tyranny and its filthy constitution, I'm proud of that and that is why I'm in revolt."
He ordered his followers into the streets after the arrest of one of his top aides, Mustafa al-Yakoubi, and 13 other followers, for al-Khoei's murder, and the closure a week earlier of his movement's weekly newspaper, al-Hawza.

At the same time as Sunday's clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City, 24 Iraqis died in gunfire between Mahdi militiamen and Spanish-led forces in Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, where a Salvadoran coalition soldier was reported killed. Mr Sadr's forces also demonstrated in the British-run cities of Basra, Amara and Nassiriya.

Western diplomats had predicted that the occupation would remain tenable as long as the Shia majority acquiesced in the expectation that transition to a representative democracy would bring it political power.
Yesterday, US officials played down the significance of Mr Sadr's movement. The Pentagon said he commanded only 600 militiamen and a few thousand supporters. However, the Iraqi Shias' most senior religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a relative moderate, was reportedly ambivalent in his response to the Mahdi revolt.

"The good news here is Sadr is just one extreme cleric we already knew was an extremist and by resisting firmly we will send a message," said Michael O'Hanlon, a strategic analyst at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "The more nerve-racking news is that Sistani seems to be divided in his instincts."
Senator Joseph Biden, the Democrats' most prominent voice on foreign policy, compared the US quandary to a 1920 revolt against British colonial rule. "We are caught in the middle. The greatest concern here is a two-front war like the Brits faced." The 1920 revolt was suppressed only after 2,200 British troops and an estimated 8,450 Iraqis were killed or wounded.

The UN special envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to discuss the transition and elections scheduled for January, but there is no consensus on what form of government should take office in the interim.
© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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Events. Lots of them....

annie — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:47:46 GMT

Slow music for slow people.
You know who you are.

DJ Anso (me) and special guest Steve Courtney
(Fandango) are djing at The Casanova tonight and
you should come and listen.

9:30 pm
FREE

527 Valencia St. @ 16th

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April Fool's Day Garage Bash!
Thursday, April 1
The Sermon
The Sleaves
The Flakes
@ The Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. @ 17th
San Francisco Ca
9:00 pm $7.00

"The Sermon delivered. They got out of their heads; they inspired
the crowd to do the same; there was screaming, a few blaring guitar
solos, a theremin warbling underneath the parts of songs that were
the offspring of that middle section in "Loose" by the Stooges. The
set was made up almost entirely of originals, and the music followed
a pretty straight Sonics-Stooges blueprint, with a heavy dose of
soul à la the Detroit Cobras to get the people dancing.
--Mike McGuirk SFBG.com
www.thesermon.com

Formed in March of 2002, The Sleaves unleash a breed of rock 'n roll
that blends the smart arrangements and harmony rich melodies of
the '60s with a heavier power pop sound more relevant to today.
www.thesleaves.com

The Flakes have been sticking around like a bad lung infection since
the long-ago year of 1998. . . from the twillight of the famed
Purple Onion, through the RocknRoll un-friendly years of the
Internet Boom/Bust, to the heady nights of Rock Slop madness at the
Parkside on 17th St.
www.theflakes.net

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From Dave Eggers/Jordan Kurland:

Hey all,

On April 1, 826 Valencia is having their big yearly fundraiser. In
our usual fashion, we are not charging much for tickets, and thus we
need to sell a bunch. We're having a Comedy Night, held in the
theater at Everett Middle School in the Mission. We desperately need
you to come. There are 1000 seats there and if we wanna make any dent
on our yearly budgetary needs, we have to sell most of those seats.

Details:

- The comedians and comedy troupes represented are *amazing*.

- Kaspar Hauser is one of the funniest groups I've ever seen. Last
year, while watching them, I could not breathe.

- Patton Oswalt is a comedian/actor who's on every episode of King of
Queens and who tours with David Cross. I saw him at Cobb's a few
months back (with Cross) and he was astoundingly funny, and also very
politically incisive. I personally hunted him down and begged him to
come to this benefit.

- Al Madrigal is a great comedian who hosts the event and who kills
every time. He's been on all the talk shows and has a sitcom in
development. He is a very nice man, too.

There are many other acts, all of them very professional and good,
and the show will bustle along quickly. If you've ever wanted to
attend one of our events -- or have before and they were too crowded
or someone named Andrew tried to assault you -- now is the time to
come, or come again, or something. I guarantee a good time. I really
do.

Buy tickets online at www.826valencia.org or at 826 Valencia, or the
night of the show.

* Key fact: Everett has a HUGE PARKING LOT. You can park inside the
school lot, and not have to deal with Mission parking woes.

More details below:

- Tickets are $12 - $20 sliding scale
- 7 PM, Thursday, April 1, Everett Middle School Auditorium
- 450 Church Street, between 16th and 17th Streets
- Parking available in entrance on 17th Street.
- More info at www.mcsweeneys.net and www.826valencia.org.

Thank you, good people. See you there. Please tell anyone else about
this, without, of course, giving my email address out everywhere.

Your true friend,
D

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LORD OF THE DRINKS
A viewing experience you’ll never remember!

Friday, April 2nd, 8pm – Midnight
The Illbilly Rhodehouse, 1300 Rhode Island St. @
24th
$7 at the door (includes all-you-can-drink)

Each month, LORD OF THE DRINKS features a new
large-screen film masterpiece, a rowdy dance
intermission, and hilarious commentary to guide
your trip!
This is not your mommy’s movie theater (unless
your mommy is a drunk hobo).
The illbilly rhodehouse 1300 Rhode Island Street (@24th) San Francisco 415-642-0669
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Subject: Kitten on the Keys plays One Man Army Show Odeon 4/2 Message: Solo Musical Offerings from:

Esmerelda Strange
Ricky Lee Robinson
Kitten on the Keys
Broken guitars
brian kenny FRESNO!
toshio hirano (Japanese Yodeler....hear he is
great!
Odeon Bar 3223 Mission at Valencia
Friday April 2nd
(6 bucks cover)

FATBACK featuring DJ Oaty Love and Sasquatch Borracho
Saturday, April 3rd 9:30 p.m.
The Rickshaw Stop (http://www.rickshawstop.com)
155 Fell Street near City Hall, Van Ness Muni/Civic Center BART Stations

FREE!

Anyone who has caught DJ Oaty Love throwdown one of his ridiculous mixes of blazing funk, old-school hip-hop joints and preposterous mash-ups at the Attic has probably thought to themselves "Damn, with a few extra square feet this could be a raging dance party..."

You wish for more elbow and booty room is granted this Saturday when the Oatman drops science at a new secret squirrel hangout in NoMa (north of Market and yeah, I did just make that up) called the Rickshaw Stop. A converted old TV studio with nice ambiance, high ceilings, full bar with food and a sound system that will be getting put through the paces, the Rickshaw Stop is an undiscovered gem of a night spot. Check it out before it gets overrun by people you don't neccessarily want to hang out with. Sasquatch Borracho kicks things off w/ a mix of funk 45s, full-throttle hip hop, Latin and Brazilian jams and whathaveyou before Oaty gets loose for a solid 2+ hours of mayhem.

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THE SOLACE BROTHERS @ THE ARROW BAR ON SATURDAY, APRIL 3.
10 6th Street @ Market FREE

"From a tune that sounds like Gang Of Four playing Kinks songs in an
Indian ashram (the sitar/fuzz guitar thump of "Reaction") to a New
Wave funk number headed up by a whoopin' soulman falsetto vocal
that'd make Jon Spencer turn pale ("Set The Sun On Fire") to a
Cobra Verde-meets-Bowie glam-slam ("2000 Miles"), this Arizona combo
is sassier than a slap on the cheek from a nymphet cheerleader."
Magnet Magazine

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Beginning April 7th, Jen D'Angelo (The Attic) and Annie (The Rite Spot) will be bartending at the new and great 12 Galaxies. Every Wed. Ursula from Bottom the Hill is booking Wednesdays, so they should be good. Really good. The first show is with Cutthroats 9, Amber Asylum and The Mass. It will rock, we promise. Please come.
2565 Mission St. @ 22nd.
$8
9PM

www.12galaxies.com

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Thursday, April 8
WPN # 15
The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St @ Post
8:00 pm
$6.00

in order of appearance:

LIANA ALLDAY can't finish a song in one sitting. Somewhere in the gray area between indecisivness and A.D.D. is a trapdoor that she falls through right after completing a verse. Lucky for you the songs are all written by the
time you come to see her play. Liana Allday will say Carol King if you say Linda Ronstadt. She will say Leonard Cohen if you say Rod McKuen. She will say Mark David Chapman if you say Sirhan Sirhan. Liana Allday was the better half of Ha the Disco Ah!. She is the slice of seitan in the Madera Road hoagie. Come see her as a free radical.
www.maderaroad.com

Suzanne Ramsey, AKA pianist and chanteuse KITTEN ON THE KEYS ,writes naughty ditties that will tickle your funnybone and stir your nethers! Her vaudevillian musical shenanigans won her the SF Weekly Music Award for New Genre/Beyond in 2003. Her 3rd CD ,on her own Rug Burn Records San Francisco, " (It's not a) Pretty Princess Day", is due out late spring!
Kitten on the Keys is representing the San Francisco Burlesque Scene in Nantes, France in March 2004! Oh La La!
www.suzanneramsey.net

JULIE ZIELINSKI is best known as the melodic songstress from San Francisco's indie popsters, staci twigg. She's been compared to artists ranging from Chan Marshall to Johnette Napolitano because of her unique ability to dynamically voice her songs from whisper-loud to an energetic frenzy.
www.stacitwigg.com

The music of Austin's GINGER LEIGH is a cocktail of styles. Her original music takes ingredients from jazz and blues and is topped off with her own brand of pop. www.gleigh.com

"Voice of the Year: CAROLEEN BEATTY of WAYCROSS. When she opens her mouth, sound swells forth with the authority of an orchestra ascending in unison at the conductor's opening cue." -- Ian Brennan, ZERO Magazine
www.caroleen.com

WILLOW WILLOW "Melodically reminiscent of the gentler side of Lennon & McCartney, the first lyrics state clearly a sentiment felt by all music lovers: "When I hear that fine music soft and clear The urge in me is to be
part of all its beauty... " www.performermag.com

"The overall picture of RYKARDA PARASOL's music is one of somber, tarnished beauty with a smoky cabaret atmosphere. Ms Rykarda possesses a powerful voice resembling a melding of Siouxsie and P.J. Harvey -- slightly ashen and achingly empassioned". Aquarius Records
www.shaketown.com/rmp

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Friday, April 9
Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck AVe
Berkeley, CA

[the]Caseworker
Minmae
Built Like Alaska
9:00 pm
$6.00

"[the] caseworker have found a sonic medium that's both blissfully charming and provocative, giving it an overall soothing, yet unharnessed, sound. These Weeks Should Be Remembered is evident of their conscious desire to keep things simple. It's simply gorgeous".
-- All Music Guide.
www.caseworkermusic.com

Sean writes excellent songs - there's a general melancholy about them, I feel, but not in an obnoxious Lou Barlow-way. His voice is fragile, but it's his voice that holds this project together. This is your basic 3 piece (guitar, bass, drums) in one way, with a big of a shoegaze feel, but Sean Brooks creates moments that you remember. www.digitalindustries.com
www.minmae.com

Loose, fuzzy indie-rock and nestled, contemplative sweeping pop. Built Like Alaska's debut, Hopalong is a mature, diverse record that proves a weepy acoustic number can, and does, go well next to a bouncy, guitar-soaked rocker. The two sides of the band tug and pull at your emotions as you find yourself crying with them one minute, as you both share a smile and a laugh the next. At times majestic and other times dirty, the serene rock of Built Like Alaska mirrors the cold, light climate of the land in which is takes its name from. www.inmusicwetrust.com
www.builtlikealaska.com

......

Neung Phak
The Soft
April 14
Hemlock Tavern
10 pm
$8.00

Neung Phak performs East Asian bar band music. With a repertoire based upon intercepted trans/emissions from the airwaves and cassette libraries of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Oakland, China and elsewhere. Fronted by vocalist Diana Hayes, its members also can be glimpsed in the San Francisco Bay Area group Mono Pause.

........

An American Starlet (cd release)
Ray's Vast Basement
Rykarda Parasol
Thursday, April 15
Cafe Du Nord
9:00 pm
$7.00

AN AMERICAN STARLET combines the heartache of classic country with the minor-key flare of Northwest indie rock. The Duchess of Hazard, the band's second outing, might as well be its first; following the release of 2001's overlooked Sweet Country Melodies [sic], singer-songwriter Ian Parks disbanded the group (then based in San Francisco) and relocated to Seattle to meet up with longtime friend Liz Green. The two quickly discovered a vocal chemistry in the vein of Gram and Emmylou. No Depression
www.starletsweb.com

Finally, the second and final (?) installment in the epic musical/fictional world that is RAY'S VAST BASEMENT. Smoke-y and murky song-stories following the life and times of the residents of Drakeville. Dreamy and surreal, By A River Burning Blue is equal parts Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, classic Nebraska-era Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Butch Hancock, Dire Straits, etc. Slow melancholy classic sounding rock songs, lushly produced, intimate and hushed. Sweet and lovely.
Aquarius Records
www.raysvastbasement.com

The overall picture of RYKARDA PARASOL's music is one of somber, tarnished beauty with a smoky cabaret atmosphere. Ms Rykarda possesses a powerful voice resembling a melding of Siouxsie and P.J. Harvey -- slightly ashen and achingly empassioned. Aquarius Records
www.shaketown.com

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annie — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:22:38 GMT

Hey Everyone--

We are looking for a space to have an Acid Cabaret in May or June and would love your help, ideas and/or suggestions. Facility 3, we MISS you! God damn!

Please email anniesouth@earthlink.net with information.

thanks!

Acid Cabaret Crew

.......

Care for some disgusting and mindless entertainment?

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pingu2.php

......

Rite Spot Cafe tonight
Sunday, March 7
JULIE Z (STACI TWIGG), NIK FREITAS, PAT JOHNSON
(PENELOPE HOUSTON), AND JASON FINAZZO.
8:00 PM $5.00

JULIE ZIELINSKI is best known as the melodic songstress from San
Francisco's indie popsters, staci twigg. She's been compared to
artists ranging from Chan Marshall to Johnette Napolitano because
of her unique ability to dynamically voice her songs from whisper-
loud to an energetic frenzy.

Those lazy, warbling keys go a long way toward establishing the mood
of NIK FREITA's mellow but consistently unpredictable pop songs,
hearkening back to the sun-baked West Coast psychedelia of the
late '60s and the gentle AM radio fare of the early '70s.
www.epitonic.com

PAT JOHNSON "has red-dirt country and roots-rock blood pumping
through his veins." www.sfbg.com

JASON FINAZZO is one of our favorite bartenders around town and word
is he is the shit. He has a band called The Naysayers but tonight
he's going to be playing solo. Come see him.

....

Tuesday, March 9
Sean Hayes
Rube Waddell
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. @ 18th
San Francisco, CA
9:00 pm $7.00

"Regardless of the words that float from Hayes' lips, his wistful tenor pulls the mind along dark roads and through mountain passes to murky pools choked with vanishing dreams and fading hearts."
www.sfweekly.com
www.seanhayesmusic.com

"The high jinks are strange, but the Rube Waddell sound is even stranger. The proprietor of the Starry Plough in Berkeley, where the Rubes often play, describes it as "junkyard blues." A flyer for a forthcoming show at the Odeon calls it "postapocalyptic hootenanny music." They make hillbilly soul music, with a strong streak of country and a nod to European folk tunes. Henderson, the main percussionist (no member plays just a single instrument), prefers the phrase "Southern Memphis soul." Or even "river music."
www.sfgate.com
www.rubewaddell.org

AND

Film School, Low Flying Owls and Thee More Shallows
Wednesday, March 10
The Elbo Room
San Francisco
www.elbo.com
9:00 pm
$7.00

THEE MORE SHALLOWS
http://www.theemoreshallows.com/
A sparkling finger-picked guitar and hushed and melodic vocals typically reside close to the front of the mix, backed by a clear river of sound that blends piano and synthesizer lines, and sometimes more exotic sounds likeviolin, cello, banjo, accordion, and glockenspiel. Additional subtle found sounds give the dreamy, swooning songs the quality of a reverie, a flight of fancy that removes the listener from the cold, abrasive reality of the real
world, which is heard only at a distance through a gauze of tender, pretty sound. Thee More Shallows thoughtful debut record, A History of Sport Fishing, appeared on Megalon Records in the spring of 2002. www.epitonic.com

LOW FLYING OWLS
www.lowflyingowls.com
The druggy wall of sound that was British space rock's signature is certainly a major element here, but so too is the meandering acoustic psychedelia of Syd Barrett and the raffish tuneful whine of the often overlooked New Wave power pop combo The Only Ones. Low Flying Owls synthesize all of this into something confidently and completely their own that's equal parts dreamy ambience and
swaggering balls-out rock. Without question one of the finest rock efforts of 2003, Elixir Vitae heralds the arrival of a major new talent. www.epitonic.com

FILM SCHOOL
www.filmschoolmusic.com
Their soulful, layered songs expand dramatically then slowly rotate around their subjects, inspecting them with huge sense of purpose and exacting proportions of drone and melody. But far from deliberate, the effect is utterly natural, with songs that sometimes pulse and shimmer, other times swell and slowly roll, but always expand, getting exponentially bigger and fuller like they are working themselves into high tide. Lyrically the songs are speci fic enough to be evocative but abstract enough to be suggestive, with the not-quite-rhyming scheme of "P.S." perfectly matching its displaced mood.
www.playinginfog.com

www.southbooking.com

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BOOTIE
WEDNESDAY MARCH 10
CHERRY BAR & LOUNGE, 917 Folsom at 5th, San Francisco
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with special guest DJs:
AXEL -- superstar L.A. bootlegger -- http://www.djaxel.com -- 11:30 - 12 mid
REVEREND SLICK 1%er -- spinning his own custom mash-ups, with goth-indus/hiphop flava -- 12 mid - 1 AM
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and your resident Bootie DJs:
ADRIAN
THE MYSTERIOUS D
PARTY BEN -- http://www.partyben.com -- 10:45 - 11:30 PM
MATTY C -- spinning rock 'n' roll mash-ups from 9 - 10 PM
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Midnight performances by:
PRINCESS KENNEDY and BEA DAZZLER
TRIXXIE CARR and CHEYNE
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And as always:
FREE ten-track Bootie sampler CD to the first 20 people through the door!
More Bootie CD giveaways throughout the night!
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"Guess That Mash-Up" and win a free haircut and color from:
ADRIENNE at the CHOP SHOP
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Hot go-go dancers: Marcy Meow, Steven Satyricon, and Xanadu
Drink special: $2 Kami-Cosmo shots
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9 PM - 2 AM, $5 cover
For more info: http://www.blue-period.com/bootie

This month, we're proud to present one of our favorite bootleggers, all the way up from Los Angeles, it's DJ AXEL. He'll be doing a short set from 11:30 to midnight. His booty-shakin' mash-ups include Lil' Kim vs. The Commodores, and Clipse vs. Queen, which can both be downloaded -- along with others -- from his web site at: http://www.djaxel.com. Click on the 'music' section and give them a listen!

Also, we have REV. SLICK 1%er back, spinning his own brand of gothic-industrial/hiphop mash-ups! These must be heard to be believed. Also in the mix, we're happy to present our newest resident DJ, PARTY BEN! You can download his own custom mash-ups at his very funny web site -- http://www.partyben.com.

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ICAN has open mic night on Mondays...

ICAN is located at 1310 Mission Street at 9th directly across
from the Guitar Center store in San Francisco's SOMA district.
415-863-9326

Also, The Hotel Utah is back! Apparently Guy from Cafe Du Nord- ex Utah booker from back in the day bought it. MC Taylor from Court and Spark and Joe Raaen are booking it. I'd recommend dropping off your press packages and demos I know they are looking for performers!

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Playing in Fog presents:

My Life is on the Line
The Herms

March 13 , 2004
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street, SF
$6.oo • 10pm

My Life is on the Line is an orchestral quintet consisting of guitar, bass, drums, cello, and violin. Most of the band lives in San Francisco. The original idea for the music was wrought on a self-notating, plastic keyboard James Nestor bought for himself as a Christmas gift in January of 2002. The cello and violin sounds on the keyboard were tolerable, and so they were used to color in some piano-based ideas on which JN had spent a few weeks working. Curious to hear how the songs might sound in a recording with real string players, JN queried his friends to see if anyone knew any players: a coworker lived with a erstwhile violinist; a friend's ex-girlfriend had lived with a cellist years ago in Berkeley. String manuscripts were scored out. A wild drummer was procured.

The group— Libby Miller, cello; Ugo Costa: violin; Geoff Reed: drums— met in a steel-roofed woodworking warehouse in Emeryville a few weeks later. In tow was a finicky 8-track analog tape recorder and some vintage ribbon mics; behind the knobs was engineer Jeff Byrd. Rhythm tracks were recorded live that afternoon; string overdubs were recorded in a few hours the next week.

playinginfog.com

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www.mandeadonmeturn.com

Mon. March 15th
TURN ME ON DEAD MAN
Coupe De Grace

12 GALAXIES
2565 Mission @ 22nd
$2 Shiner Bochs
$2 Fernets after Midnight!

....

Tuesday 23rd
@ The Make Out Room
Dr. Abacus
The Voodoo Organist
Slow Poisoners
8:30pm $6

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Sean Hayes at Church of the Friendly Ghost Austin 2/26

annie — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:36:37 GMT

One of the Acid Cabaret's favorite performers is out on tour and is going to be playing on KUT and then at a brand new venue called Church of the Friendly Ghost. It's funky and fun and probably a little spooky. Spread the word, Sean's great. Many sound clips on his site. We'd love to see you out!

SEAN HAYES
WWW.SEANHAYESMUSIC.COM

"Regardless of the words that float from Hayes' lips, his wistful tenor pulls the mind along dark roads and through mountain passes to murky pools choked with vanishing dreams and fading hearts. Even when singing about Bob Ross, the fortunetelling chicken who inspired this album, Hayes is never distant from his languid melancholy..." Silke Tudor SF Weekly

WWW.KUT.ORG
90.5
Noon on February 26, 2005

then later that night...

Church of the Friendly Ghost
209 Pedernales St
Austin, TX
512 220 1428
8:00 pm
$6.00
www.churchofthefriendlyghost.com

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Some music...

annie — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:39:48 GMT

Monday, January 26
MARK GROWDEN
9:00 PM FREE
Rite Spot Cafe
17th and Folsom
2 drink minium

"His dark, melodic and twisted music drags one ears to some backwoods cabaret inhabited by what sounds like Tom Waits, Joel Phelps, the Tiger Lillies and a slew of Vaccination label-type post-Residents musicians in some kind of bizarre musical carnival. MARK GROWDEN utilizes all the best instrumentation: whistles, glass bottles, distrorted accordian, saxophone, guitar and anything else under the sun." WFMU.ORG

...

Thursday, January 29
Staci Twigg, Frank Jordan and Odessa Chen
Elbo Room
On Valencia between 17th and 18th St.
9:00 pm
$6.00

Turning drink tickets into moments, San Francisco's STACI TWIGG makes upbeat and unabashed pop a la The New Pornographers, The Breeders, and Throwing Muses. Staci Twigg features dynamic female vocals and twangular guitars over romping bass and up-front drumming. Hi-fi production and catchy songwriting combines with indie flavor but avoids electroclash and garage bandwagons. The band is known for high-energy shows full of spilt drinks, spitfire playlists, and unintended comedy. www.stacitwigg.com

FRANK JORDAN release their third record, their first with Devil in the Woods on February 17, 2004. Frenzied, thoughtful, dyanamic and kinetic, 'Milk the Thrills' is the band at their best. "These guys rip it up. There were moments I swear I thought I was listening to some basement Ghosts in The Machine-era Police tapes." BH Alive & Kicking www.frankjordan.com

With the lonesome feel of slow core indie-rock and a fingerpicking guitar style that is almost classical, ODESSA CHEN'S music has been described as delicate, wintry, intelligent and haunting. Her voice is substantial, matching the intimacy of Cat Power with the ethereal intensity of Jeff Buckley. www.odessachen.com

AND

Playing in Fog Presents
[the] caseworker
Rykarda Parasol

January 31, 2004
Hemlock Tavern
$6 . 10pm

Visit www.playinginfog.com for MP3s!

[the] caseworker is Conor Jonathan (guitars, vocals)
and Eimer Devlin (bass, vocals) and they're loosely
based in San Francisco. Conor and Eimer were formerly
in Half Film, who put out a handful of nice mellow
records a couple of years ago. They also toured around
the world, got written up and all the usual stuff.
When that band broke up they asked their good friend
Monte Vallier (ex-Swell) to record and produce some
new songs they'd written. They also asked him to ask
Sean Kirkpatrick - the old Swell drummer - if he'd be
interested in coming out of his retirement in Santa
Barbara to play drums with them. Sean agreed, and the
[the] caseworker was born. The resulting album is
called these weeks should be remembered, and took over
a year to put together. The ten songs are lush,
spacious, colorful and atmospheric; sometimes it
sounds like a doze under the palm trees, and other
times it sounds like a highway at night. Either way,
mood is everything. Imagine a darker Yo La Tengo or
Radar Bros. Think of time, distance, movement, water,
sky and music. Released by Manifesto Records on
September 2nd 2003.

Rykarda Parasol has an authentic storyteller's
voice--an eerie, expansive, lost highway kind of
voice, with undercurrents of bourbon and swagger. Her
sexy EP has been in regular rotation at my place for a
couple of weeks, making bedroom eyes while it tells
noirish tales of a dangerous South. Given how
confidently it seduces, I was a little suprised by how
stoic Rykarda's life performance was. She played
guitar almost solemnly--a stylish American Gothic, and
although it added to her mystique, I admit wanting to
see some of the warmth and raciness I could hear in
that bluesy Siouxsie voice. Rykarda's cover of "She's
Like Heroin" deserves special mention for the
cascading, falling leaf motions it makes along the
lines of the Gun Club's urban shanty. - Shannon
Coulter, Playing in Fog

The band, which includes Colleen Browne (White
Hotel/Pale Saints-4AD), Chris Sipe (Joe Buck), and
Greg Benitz (Jean Paul Special), has recently released
a 6-song EP on The Blood of the Young Records (Bright
Eyes/Har Mar Superstar), a Minneapolis based indie.
Rykarda and band are currently recording a full length
album.

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A good and important read

annie — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:16:56 GMT

http://truthout.org/docs_04/011504A.shtml

Please forward this

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Happy New Year...

annie — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:27:35 GMT

Well hello and HAPPY NEW YEAR! Things are starting out fast and furious, yes indeedy. Partyball the Mrs. returned safely from doing their time in Thailand. It looks like Anthony is gearing up for a rare and final Resineators show on Friday night at the Hemlock. Annie is running around booking and promoting shows locally and nationwide, getting ready to move (with mixed feelings) out of the Mission to 14th and Sanchez. Chris Lyman and Scott Shanks new band 'Turn me on Deadman' is playing out as is Billy and Chris Portfolio's band 'Coup de Grace'. Tracey Lyman a lovely devilette and she's got a big show on Sunday at DNA. Pat and Lisa: engaged. Alex and Tara : knocked up with a sibling for cute little Finn. Performers are all seemingly doing quite well and I try to get the news to you when I can (remember to and can track down the information). The Hemlock Tavern is going under some new sound proofing in the lovely and cozy back room. The sound bleed between the bar and the backroom should be cut way down. Very exciting. Casanova continues to kick ass, Donovan is booking great DJ's. The Rite Spot just got a new ice machine (finally) no buzzing ice making noises,! Yay! Lots of great music there as always and those god damned Irish Coffee's keep a comin`.

No news on any Acid Cabaret shows or the DVD. We know you know we are busy and it's hard to synch up Annie, Anthony and Stephen's schedule but it's coming. We promise. Did you guys catch the cable 29 airings? Any of them? There were about 10 so, hopefully you did. We got lots of good feedback, thanks!

On to the event announcements... we hope to see you out!

...

Tonight.

ARA ANDERSON & DAVE MIHALY DUO
{free & open improvisation}
at The Luggage Store Gallery
Thursday January 15th 8pm
Alexander Kort, cello & Kitundu, unique phonograph instruments 9pm
1007 Market Street
at 6th Street
$6-10 no one turned away
all ages

....

Friday, Jan 16th
Country Teasers, Resineators
10pm, $7
Hemlock Tavern
Polk and Post (at Hemlock Alley)

The Hemlock Tavern is deliriously happy to welcome back the Country Teasers for an entire weekend of shows!! For the uninitiated, Country Teasers are Scotland/London/NYC miscreant misanthropes plying their trade in late 70's Fall aggro-skiffle, late 80's Pussy
Galore trash tactics, and a very refreshing and timeless form of palpable loathing of the Industry and you, the Audience. Actually, they hate pretty much everybody and everything, so it's strictly an equal opportunity gig, dig? They've recorded albums for Crypt and Fat Possum. Their new In the Red album "Full Moon, Empty Sports Bag" is in stores now. Who's a country tease? I am.

"Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire offers the broadest range of the Country Teasers' styles, from the most savagely raw post-punk stomps to experimental electronic blow-outs. This collection is absolute proof that the Country Teasers are one of the most original bands around today." - Midheaven.com

SF's Resineators dish out an over-the-counter array of psych-expanded rockers, white-line fevers, and black-hole crawlers. Panic-stricken rock music in barely digestible horse pellet form. As long threatened, Dave Nudelman's moving to Hawaii in February to realize his slack-key godhood destiny, so this is your LAST chance, maybe forever, but definitely until the reunion show at Don Ho's luau.

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Rosin Coven, Paradox Media, Abby Ehmann & The Cat Club kindly reprimand You…

Come now, my child. Misbehaving will only get you so far…tonight it seems as far as The Cat Club. Pull up a tuffet and prepare yourself for “Cautionary Tales For Children”, a sprightly series on the foibles of youth and their disproportionate punishment. Add a dash of puppetry, the World’s premiere Pagan Lounge Ensemble, the finest Edwardian disc jockeys this side of Newcastle, parlour games, and a nursery full of maligned toys and you have…

THE FOURTH ANNUAL EDWARDIAN BALL
(A splendid San Francisco tradition since The Turn of The Century)

FRIDAY JANUARY 16th at THE CAT CLUB
1190 Folsom at 8th Street, SF
9pm-3am, tickets $12 adv/$15 door
Advance tickets at Cat Club or http://www.catclubsf.com

http://www.rosincoven.com/edwardianIV/

Starring:
ROSIN COVEN (Pagan Lounge Music & Theatre) http://www.rosincoven.com
Puppets & Pie (Playful & Suspicous Puppetry) http://www.puppetsandpie.com
Allison Lovejoy (Enchantingly Edwardian Piano & Songs) http://www.allisonlovejoy.com
Editrix Abby Ehmann (Reknowned NYC Host & Producer) http://www.editrixabby.com
DJs Shane, Fernando & Jay T Tempura
and of course,
Your elegant self.

Also featuring live performances from
“Cautionary Tales for Children”
by Hilaire Beloc & Edward Gorey

with an all-star cast including
Jay Broemmel (Cyclecide, Seemen), Lu Read (Fudgie Frottage, DragStrip), Maya Culbertson (Liminal, Fou Fou Ha!), Rose Barber (Firetribe 451), $teven Ra$pa, and many more.

Questions? Cautionary Tales? Nonsense? Write edwardianIV@rosincoven.com.

* Scenes from Last Time -- http://www.rosincoven.com/Gallery/Photos/GoreyBall3/index.htm
* The Time Before That -- http://www.rosincoven.com/Gallery/Photos/EdwardianII/index.htm
* And The One Before That -- http://www.rosincoven.com/Gallery/gallery_photos_Edwardian.htm

“People such as me and you
Who pretty nearly all day long
Are doing something rather wrong.”

-Hilaire Beloc

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http://www.rosincoven.com
http://www.paradox-media.com

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CONDOR
The Weegs
The Cold War
The Manifolds (LA)

This Saturday Jan 17
At the 40th St Warehouse in North Oakland
All Ages BYOB
379 40th St (betw Broadway & Telegraph)
8PM - Midnight (early show so don't be too fashionable)
$4 (what an entertainment bargain)

....

Sean Hayes is O. G. A. C (original Acid Cabaret-- yes, the FIRST year out on the playa). Come out and support his new and beautiful CD 'Alabama Chicken' on Sunday at Cafe Du Nord.

south presents:
SEAN HAYES' ALABAMA CHICKEN CD RELEASE PARTY--with MARK GROWDEN'S ELECTRIC PINATA and JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS/DAN CANTRELL
Sunday, January 18
Cafe Du Nord-- On Market near Sanchez
www.cafedunord.com
8:00 pm
$6.00
--Monday, Jan 19 is a holiday--

Regardless of the words that float from Hayes' lips, his wistful tenor pulls the mind along dark roads and through mountain passes to murky pools choked with vanishing dreams and fading hearts. Even when singing about Bob Ross, the fortunetelling chicken who inspired this album, Hayes is never distant from his languid melancholy: "Possum trot/ Copper ring round/ And the dog needs something to eat/ Old Ned Barry in a Cadillac hearse/ Down a Birmingham street," he croons while Jolie Holland weaves an Appalachian widow's harmony behind his back.
January 14, 2003 SF Weekly Silke Tudor
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2004-01-14/tudor.html/1/index.html

JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS follows a long linage of Texas troubadour singer/songwriters in new tradition and timeless spirit. Rasied in Houston lowered in California, his music conjures the lost highway and endless skies between; border waltzes, funeral marches, odes to both heaven and hell, the loved and the loveless.
www.jeffreylucklucas.com

"His dark, melodic and twisted music drags one ears to some backwoods cabaret inhabited by what sounds like Tom Waits, Joel Phelps, the Tiger Lillies and a slew of Vaccination label-type post-Residents musicians in some kind of bizarre musical carnival. MARK GROWDEN utilizes all the best instrumentation: whistles, glass bottles, distrorted accordian, saxophone, guitar and anything else under the sun." WFMU.ORG

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Cabaret Verdalet

Sunday, January 18th

8:30pm-2:30am

$15, $13 in Advance, $12 before 10:00

----> Event Description <-----------------------------------------------

Cabaret Verdalet returns with a spicy new stage show and
celebration set to the theme of Weimar Berlin, January 18th at the
DNA Lounge. Step out to an evening of glamour and jazz with
some of the brightest talents in burlesque and beyond performing
acts from saucy dance numbers to sultry songs and aerial antics.
Smoky dance tunes from twenties jazz to early rock and eclectic
lounge keep the rhythm right, swinging into the late hours for a full
night on the town in the style of decades past revamped with a
modern flair. Cabaret Verdalet only appears once or twice a year,
so break out the top hats, flashy shoes and enjoy the show.

Featured performances include the comedic and scandalous
escapades of Dane's Dames Burlesque, Kitty Kitty Bang Bang with
slick vintage dance routines and spellbinding solos in the air on
rope and trapeze from Honey and Darling le Bang, the exotic and
dazzling samba shake of Hot Pink Feathers, charming and
vivacious go-go girls The Devil-Ettes, campy Berlin toe-tapping
from The Verdalet Vixens und der Wiener Schnitzels, the sweet
and sinister vocal talents of Ariela Morgenstern and Frau Goodloe,
a seductive solo spin with The Flying Fox and a gender-bending
ride with Fudgie Frottage. The show kicks off early at 9pm with a
break for dancing and starts up again with all new acts at 11pm.
DJ's Sage and Brian Cox play all night.

Admission is 21 and over with ID, please.
Advance tickets are only available on-line at www.virtuous.com.

DNA Lounge
375 Eleventh Street (at Harrison)
San Francisco
415-626-1409
http://www.dnalounge.com...

...

Thursday, January 29
Staci Twigg, Frank Jordan and Odessa Chen
Elbo Room
9:00 pm
$6.00

STACI TWIGG www.stacitwigg.com

FRANK JORDAN "These guys rip it up. There were moments I swear I thought I was listening to some basement Ghosts in The Machine-era Police tapes." BH Alive & Kicking www.frankjordan.com (the band)

With the lonesome feel of slow core indie-rock and a fingerpicking guitar style that is almost classical, ODESSA CHEN'S music has been described as delicate, wintry, intelligent and haunting. Her voice is substantial, matching the intimacy of Cat Power with the ethereal intensity of Jeff Buckley. www.odessachen.com

...

From Anti Records newletter:

Jolie Holland's debut album, Catalpa, continued to astound critics with her haunting mix of styles. Rolling Stone called her music a blend of "vocal jazz, backwoods blues and moaning Appalachia" and that her "log-cabin vocals are rife with graceful trills (that) float ghostlike through crooked melodies on songs that are ... mesmerizing." Coming up soon will be Jolie Holland's NEXT album; Escondida will come out in late April and takes Holland's musical vision to a whole new level. Look for tourdates coming from Jolie and her band in the spring.

...

Jeffrey Luck Lucas made it onto the Will Oldham Tribute record and will also be on Tract Records Eye of the Beholder V 4 series both set for release in March!

From Pitchfork Media:
Tract Records now plans to release its Oldham tribute album, I Am
Cold Rock. I Am Dull Grass, on March 29th. Tract sent along this list
of selected tracks for the record, which appear in no particular
order:

The Strugglers: "Riding"
Sodastream: "Southside Of The World"
Calexico: "I Send My Love To You"
Scout Niblett: "Trudy Dies"
Racingpaperplanes: "Careless Love"
Rivulets: "You Will Miss Me When I Burn"
Joel Martin:"Wolf Among Wolves"
Boy Omega: "A Sucker's Evening"
Thistleblossom: "Allowance"
Adrian Crowley:"West Palm Beach"
Pinetop Seven: "A Minor Place"
Moyra Mc Bride and Maxon Blewitt: "Disorder"
Pale Horse And Rider: "Work Hard/Play Hard"
Jeffrey Luck Lucas: "Agnes, Queen Of Sorrow"

...
A couple of tours Annie booked for bands she works with/for. Come out and support these bands on the road...get your friends and family out to see them.

Film School in LA www.filmschoolmusic.com

Feb 6 at UCLA 7:30 pm FREE with Silversun Pickups
Feb 7 KOOS Long Beach 9:00 pm $5.00 with Bedroom Walls and Let's go sailing.
Feb 8 Spaceland 9:00 pm with Silversun Pickups and Timonium

Sean Hayes is gearing up for a Southwest Tour! Send your people out to these shows! There are still a few holes in the tour, especially in Austin... so if you can help out with ideas or connections please email anniesouth@earthlink.net | www.seanhayesmusic.com

Feb 17 Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles
Wednesday, February 18 UCLA

Thursday, February 19 The Paper Heart Gallery and Studio Phoenix

Friday, February 20 KXCI Tucson live at 5:00 with Kristi Lloyd the

Red Room at the Grill Tucson, AZ

Saturday, February 21 Solar Culture Tucson, AZ

Sunday, February 22 Atomic Cantina Albuquerque

Monday, February 23 Eske’s Taos, NM
Tuesday, February 24 OFF

Wednesday 25 Rubber Gloves Denton, Texas

Thursday 26 Austin TBA

Friday 27 Austin TBA

Saturday 28 Texas TBA

Sunday 29 Cowgirl Hall of Fame Santa Fe, New Mexico

Monday, March 1 Plush, Tucson with Nels Andrews

Tuesday March 2 AZ TBA

Wednesday March 3 Hot Licks Bisbee, AZ

Thursday march 4 Pappy and Harriets Joshua Tree

Friday, March 5 San Diego TBA

Saturday, March 6 The Derby Unconfirmed

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Hemlock shows you should see in January: www.hemlocktavern.com

16
The Country Teasers
Resinators
10pm $7

18
The Speakers
Kate Klaire
10pm $5

21
Low Flying Owls
Bonfire Madigan
10pm $7

31
Playing in Fog
Presents
[the] caseworker
Rykarda Parasol
10pm $6

Shows at the Rite Spot you should see in January www.ritespotcafe.net

16

Michael McIntosh (Blue Room Boys)

9:00 pm free

18

Nickel Beer Riot

5:00 pm free

19

Drizzoletto (Ted Savarese and Ashley Adams)

and

Libby Kirkpatrick (Austin)

9:00 pm free

22

Frisky Frolics

9:00 pm free

24

Blue Room Boys

9:00 pm free

25

Truth is Fiction

with Paula Frazer

6:00 pm $3.00

26

Mark Growden

9:00 pm free

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From Vanessa Morrison:

We at the house of love are looking for a roomate to move in to cheap ass beatiful room priced at $471 in private part of house-Fulton and lyon
Move in date is January 25th
Call me at 415-305-7233 if you know of anyone interested female or male
Please please pass this on to your friends

From Nancy Beach:

Howdy Folks,

I just found out that my lovely roommate Stephanie is going to be moving out
at the end of the month, and we will need to find a new person to take her
place.

Please feel free to forward to anyone that you might know that would be
interested. We are going to wait a day or two before posting on Craigslist,
'cause we'd like to have a friend or friend of a friend before we go the
total stranger route.

So, here's the pitch:

Our house is a nice, three bedroom flat at Duboce and Valencia. The
Zeitgeist is spitting distance, and the delicious cocktails of the Orbit
room is about a 2 minute walk. BART, MUNI, Rainbow, Safeway, The Mission,
Lower-Haight and Hayes Valley are all easy walks from our pad.

The room itself is nice sized....with a fairly good sized closet to boot.
Wood floors all over the house. We also have a HUGE hall closet that all of
us use for storage. The flat is sunny...we have the luck of living next to
the scenic oil change, but what it means for us is that we don't have
another building right next to us on the east, so it's bright and sunny. We
also have a nice big bathroom, a kitchen with a super rad old Wedgewood
stove, and laundry in the apartment! Yay! Oh yes, and central heating and
wireless DSL connection.

Ours is a fairly communal household (but we're not hippies!). We make
dinner together often (and we make some super yummy stuff). We have a "food
sharing" system that involves all of us putting a certain amount into the
kitty each month, and we "pay ourselves back" when we buy groceries. We
started doing this because we noticed that we were all eating similar food
anyway, and we would loose track of whose broccoli was whose, and then it
would go bad. We waste less doing it this way.

There are 3 of us living in the place - Doug (35) and Shannon (27) (they're
a couple) and me (Nancy, 32). Doug is my brother. There is very low drama
here, and we would prefer to keep it that way. I think we just want someone
that is friendly and respectful that can pay their rent and other bills on
time.

There is also a cat in the house. He's fuzzy, neurotic and very cute. I
think he would be really unhappy if another animal was introduced into the
house, so we would prefer someone without pets.

Money Stuff:
Rent: $650 + utilities
Last month's rent: $650
Deposit: $650
Please note: There is some flexibility on when you pay the deposit and the
last month's rent....but you have to work it out with Steph.

nancy@yowstar.com

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FWD from Jon Bernson:

Hey all,

To follow up on a topic that was mentioned at staff
meeting on Tuesday, I want to let folks know that
tonight I learned that the Discretionary Review Board
(which was deciding the fate of the proposed
Starbucks at Judah and 44th Ave) decided in a 5-2 vote
to reject Starbucks' application to bring a store to
the Outer Sunset.

Apparently, community turn-out to the hearing (which
started at 2:00 pm and ran well into the evening) was
stellar...about 50-60 Sunset residents came out!
Whatever testimony they gave must have been
compelling...3 DR Board members stated that they
actually came into the meeting in support of
Starbucks, and then changed their minds after hearing
what residents had to say.

I guess Starbucks learned tonight that there's a
sleepy strength in the Sunset community...I just
thought y'all might be interested in this news.

Go give some love to the Biscuit when you get a
chance...

Megan

Megan Agee
Community Organizer, Safety Network Program
Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center
3925 Noriega Street
San Francisco, CA 94122
(415) 759-3690
magee@snbc.org

...

The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts across all performance disciplines and incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous, starkly beautiful, supremely talented and horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct.

For more information contact: anniesouth@earthlink.net

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Weekend music...

annie — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 05:20:18 GMT

Saturday, December 27
Jeffrey Luck Lucas and Ray's Vast Basement
The Hemlock Tavern.
On Polk @ Post
10:00 pm $6.00

JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS "...seamless, elegant nearly abstract wash of countrified loveliness, and though his imagery speaks in a darkly romantic southwestern vocabulary of parched landscapes, rusty tin wall crosses and abandoned haciendas, I sometimes also found myself thinking of one of those rural towns of the American south with dirt roads and sugar white hilltop chapels--so peaceful as to be surreal. www.playinginfog.com
www.jeffreylucklucas.com

"One of the most refreshing listens we've heard in a long long while, RAY'S VAST BASEMENT is a collection of perfectly-crafted, honest-to-gosh SONGS written in the tradition of gravelly-voiced observers-of-life such as John Prine, Bob Dylan... "On the Banks of Time" is a fully formed aesthetic triumph complete with a lyric booklet and a stunningly executed, heartbreakingly poignant series of 60 cards detailing the 100,000,000-year history of Ray's Basement, the fictional cave in the town about which all the songs are written. Wow!" - Aquarius Records, San Francisco www.raysvastbasement.com

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Sunday, December 28
Free show
The Rite Spot Cafe
17th and Folsom
8:00 pm

RICHARD MARSHALL is the singer-songwriter frontman of SF indie rock band The Slings. He's also known for his work with Alice Donut, Carlos!, and Fields of Gaffney (featuring Eric Gaffney from Sebadoh). His haunting and evocative melodies propel stories of
superheros with everyday problems, lost love, and the apocalypse. See him in a rare solo performance at his favorite local bar.

PIERCE HEALY's (Vocal Disorder) music has been proven to stop aging and remove wrinkles. He takes a break from recording with The Dirty Pictures to air some new tunes. Sweet and Dark all at once the voice of Healy will drip like maple syrup through your filthy ears.

JULIE ZIELINSKI is known by Bay Area dwellers as the front person for San Francisco melodic indie popsters, Staci Twigg. She is also a talented solo artist that has played and toured throughout the region. Julie Z. has been compared to artists ranging from Chrissie Hynde to Johnette Napolitano because of her unique ability to dynamically voice her songs from whisper-loud to an energetic frenzy.

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Late night with ACTV channel 29- San Francisco

annie — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:33:24 GMT

More viewing dates for you...

Dec. 12, 15, 19 @ 12:30am & 1:30 am

witness the mayhem

xo annie

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Free music at the Rite Spot Cafe...

annie — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:13:05 GMT

www.ritespotcafe.net
17th and Folsom

Sunday, December 14...J THACKRAY'S SINGER/SONGWRITER SHOWCASE...featuring...DAN CANTRELL, ENZO GARCIA, KRISTINA FORESTER, PHIL CRUMAR AND TED SCHRAM. 7:30 pm FREE

DAN CANTRELL- www.bellowhead.com
Has been playing the accordion for the last 10 years;
focusing on Balkan music. He performs in several
groups in the SF bay area; including the Toids,
Peoples Bazarre and Orkestar Shopov.

ENZO GARCIA- www.enzogarcia.com
Has been a professionally performing musician for 10
years. He is a singer and songwriter who accompanies
his voice and guitar, accordion, 5 string banjo, and
harmonica. Garcia is a seasoned performer who conveys
comfort and ease in his performance style. This
enables him to quickly develop a warm rapport with any
audience; save the drunken belligerent sea faring
pirate crowd.

KRISTINA FORESTER-
Bay area improviser and cellist who has played with
Fred Frith, Eddie Polland, Christian Kiefer and is in
the improv group Mosthumbz.

PHIL CRUMAR-
This hip Mission performer will be doing a solo spot
he also has a very exciting "hip hop get down and
boggie rock in roll extravaganza band" that will be at
the Make Out Room for New Year's eve! Phil will wow
you with his urban stylish licks and looks.......

TED SCHRAM- www.tedschram.com
multi-instrumentalist; Ted's music is wacky, funny,
experimental and sometimes just plain weird. He has
released three recordings and is about to have
another.

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Monday, December 15...SEAN HAYES and FELLER QUENTIN...8:00 PM free

(PLAYING FIRST) SEAN HAYES is a San Francisco based, anodyne-voiced, dark folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who captivates and enchants audiences with the incomparably deft presentation of his songs. Sean’s are the songs that numerous notable musicians cover, including The Be Good Tanya’s, Jolie Holland and Erin McKeown.

FELLER QUENTIN thinks a lot. He tries to play guitar just like John Fahey. He likes hip-hop. He writes a bunch of songs. A lot of them are funny. Most of them bear an underlying darkness. It probably seems like you've heard a bunch of musicians just like this but you are probably wrong.

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Rite Spot Election Day Event

annie — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:25:32 GMT

Come down to the Rite Spot and watch the results! Kitten on the Keys plays at 9:00 or after the results comes in.

FREE

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acid cabaret newsletter from mail list

annie — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:14:53 GMT

The Mayoral Race is very tight and this is a chance to get out and excercise your vote. Everyone probably knows it at this point, but each vote counts and please get your friends to vote. MUY IMPORTANTE!

LONG VOTING LINES GETTING YOU DOWN?
Why not vote early since you can?

Department of Elections
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 48
@ City Hall
usually starting 29 days before an election
http://www.smartvoter.org/

Election night party at The Rite Spot Cafe with Kitten on the Keys!

See Matt's fundraising events in the next week at the bottom of this mail out.

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some interesting/important links:

Yes, our president is at it again... http://www.moveon.org/looting/

Interesting Mayor Race Perspective: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1202-07.htm

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JOIN THE ACID CABARET TRIBE ON TRIBE.NET
it's your opportunity to promote your own events and find
out about performance opportunities and discuss all things
ASSCAB if that's what you really want to do.
www.tribe.net
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SEAN HAYES*** IS THROWING A BIG PARTY THIS FRIDAY, december 5th, to play for you his BEEEAUTIFUL SOUL-HUGGING MUSIC, and to celebrate the completion of his new album, ALABAMA CHICKEN! details below...

f.y.i., this party is FREE (donations and CD purchases welcome!), while the official CD release party at Cafe du Nord (january 18th) is NOT!

*** if you do not already know the beeeautiful music of my friend SEAN HAYES, please do yourself a big favor right now and get a taste of it via his website-- seanhayesmusic.com.
no, really, you will thank me for it. (...you're welcome!)

location: 57 Stillman, between 2nd and 3rd, parallel to harrison and bryant, south of market area, san francisco.
time: doors at 9 pm

performances by:
The Boneless Children's Foundation (9:30 pm)
Sean Hayes with friends The Sonic Background Explorers (10 pm)
DJ Noah (late night fun!)

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TURN ME ON DEAD MAN at The Pound on Friday, December 5...

The line up -
TURN ME ON DEAD MAN
KEPLER
SORROW TOWN CHOIR
VADEMECUM

The Pound (www.poundsf.com) is at 100 Cargo Way
off 3rd St.

www.mandeadonmeturn.com

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from billy/coup de grace:

Coup de Grace will be hitting the streets literally.
On Saturday Dec 6th CDG will be playing the Rock Out SF for Matt Gonzalez.
We will be playing @ 1pm sharp in front the of Casanova Lounge (527 Valencia
St) the Rock Out SF is an event where artists & musicians play from 1 to 2 pm on
the streets of SF to show solidarity and raise awareness to important
issues.

So come out to support the musicians and Matt Gonzalez.

VOTE TUESDAY DEC 9th

.....you can't bitch if you don't VOTE...

I'm tired of bitching.......

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CONDOR

Show Date: Sat, 12/6 - 9:30PM

Bands/Acts Set times:

Bugs 10:00 (from Portland)
Condor 11:00
Caesura 12:00

Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street @ Post
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 923-0923 club line

Cover Charge:$6

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Ray's Vast Basement is playing at Amoeba on Saturday, December 6th. 2 pm FREE
www.raysvastbasement.com
Jolie Holland is playing at Amoeba on Saturday, December 12th 2 pm FREe
www.jolieholland.com
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Go see the Japonize Elephants this weekend...

Friday December 5th
in San Francisco
at Club Galia (Mission at 22nd)
with Rube Waddell and Nanos Operetta
9:30 pm
$8 cover

AND

Saturday December 6th
in San Francisco
at a Rally for Green Party mayoral candidate Matt Gonzales
at Studio Z (11th and Folsom)
10 pm to 10:30 pm SHARP
cover is a sliding scale

Questions? Comments?

www.japonizeelephants.com

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wondering what rosin coven is up to:

http://rosincoven.com/Shows/upcoming_shows.htm

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JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS AND DAN CANTRELL at the RITE SPOT CAFE
Election's Eve, Monday, December 8th. 9:00 pm FREE
The Rite Spot Cafe is on the corner of 17th and Folsom. Easy parking, full bar and dinner menu. Come for dinner and stay for music.

www.ritespotcafe.net
www.jeffreylucklucas
www.bellowhead.com

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Women's performance night, normally held at the Rite Spot Cafe goes uptown for the month of December and we'd love to see you at the show. 1/2 performances from amazing female singer/songwriters from the Bay Area and beyond. Come down check out the great menu, have a few drinks and enjoy the night out supporting local music!

South Booking presents The WPN #13

Wednesday, December 10
Cafe Du Nord 9:00 pm
1970 Market St.
www.cafedunord.com

JOLIE HOLLAND has a voice that attempts to transcend the new and encompass the old through the medium of American music. Her songs liken stylistically to early jazz, country blues and old time music. www.jolieholland.com

"Voice of the Year: CAROLEEN BEATTY of WAYCROSS. When she opens her mouth, sound swells forth with the authority of an orchestra ascending in unison at the conductor ’s opening cue." -- Ian Brennan, ZERO Magazine www.unitedmeat.com

With the measured, lonesome feel of slow core indie-rock and a fingerpicking guitar style that is almost classical, ODESSA CHEN's music references a variety of influences while remaining distinct. Her substantial voice whispers and soars matching the intimacy of Cat Power with the ethereal intensity of Jeff Buckley. Accomplished lyrics and sparse arrangements call to mind early Leonard Cohen, while at times the music builds into dense textures similar to Sigor Ros. www.odessachen.com

BONFIRE MADIGAN is an avant-pop, chamber-rock band. A configuration of combustible collaborators orbiting the songs and spit of Madigan Shive. Madigan ignites the Bonfire with a shebeen of soul-art-string-sounds. Since her performing songwriting first appeared ten years ago with Seattle's first generation riot grrrl band, the seminal acoustic songwriting duo, Tattle Tale, to her Mad art, advocacy and activism of today -- Madigan doesn't play for safety. www.bonfiremadigan.com

San Francisco based RYKARDA PARASOL plays melodic gothic American rock that generates moody atmospheres as well as gin-inspired romanticism. Elements of and comparisons to the Bad Seeds, Black Heart Procession, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power, and Johnny Cash will come to mind. Like those artists, Rykarda Parasol centers its sound around shadowy gestures and storytells in a relatively slow and quiet setting. www.shaketown.com/rmp

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Playing in Fog Presents
Lower Forty-Eight
Greenlight the Bombers

December 12, 2003
Hemlock Tavern
$6.oo . 10pm

Lower Forty-Eight was formed in May 2000 with the
intent of playing music that has the heaviness of
metal, elements of progressive rock and the political
intensity of punk and hardcore. In January 2001, Lower
Forty-Eight began playing shows in the San Francisco
Bay Area and released their first EP, "Gentle
Tyranny". Less than a year later, LFE's first
full-length LP "Halfback" was released. The newest
album "Skin Failure" is finished and set for release
in UK and Europe on Monotreme Records in October 2003.
LFE will also be touring UK, Belgium, Holland,
Luxembourg and Germany in early 2004 with The Mass.

With most of their influences disbanded, Oakland
post-hardcore outfit Greenlight the Bombers ( aka
SixtyFootTime ) formed in 1998, moving forward with
the aggressive and angular sound bands like Drive Like
Jehu and Steel Pole Bathtub had helped develop.
Initially, they didn t fit into the bay area music
scene and played random shows withpunk, metal, and
even ska bands. Luckily however, other bands arose
with similar musical styles such as From Monument to
Masses, Moggs, Replicator, the Mass, Caesura, and
Lower Forty-Eight. A noiserockcommunity was born and
Greenlight the Bombers had a happy home. Later in
2003, the band went in hiatus when guitarist Todd
Grant went on the road as drum technician for a
touring band. While M.I.A., drummer Shannon Corr
and vocalist Paul Warner formed a side project with
bassist Craig Eastman. Upon Todd's return, they all
decided tomove forward with Craig since former bassist
John Hansen's schedule was pretty hectic. They have
written an album's worth of new material since their
last release and hope to get back in the studio early
2004.

http://www.playinginfog.com
http://www.lowerforty-eight.com
http://www.greenlightthebombers.com

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For all you randoms with no place to go on XMAS EVE or just would rather get smashed with some friends... THE RITE SPOT CAFE will be open and KITTEN ON THE KEYS www.suzanneramsey.net will be playing some perverted XXmas carols. Come get drunk, there is talk of an appetizer potluck, so write ritespotcafe@hotmail.com if this interests you.

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Music to watch out for this month...

Hemlock Tavern:
www.hemlocktavern.com

December 16
Dynasty Handbag
Ana Oxygen
willpower (Will from Imperial Teen)
10pm $6

December 17
The Music Lovers
Low Water
10pm $5

December 27
Ray's Vast Basement
Jeffrey Luck Lucas
10pm $6

Rite Spot Cafe
www.ritespotcafe.net

The Buckets and Nickel Beer Riot
Sunday, December 8
early show, free
6:00 pm

J Thackray's singer/songwriter night
Sunday, December 14
7:30 pm FREE

Sean Hayes and Feller Quentin
Monday, December 15
8:00 pm FREE
www.seanhayesmusic.com
www.fellerquentin.com

Our Lady of the Highway
Tommy Guerrero
Sunday, December 21
8:00 pm FREE
www.ourladyofthehighway.com
www.tommyguerrero.com

Pierce Healy
Julie Z
Richard Marshall (The Slings)
Sunday, December 28
8:00 pm FREE

Mark Growden
Monday, December 29
9:00 pm FREE

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MATT RAISERS, SITINGS, and EVENTS

CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR & D.A. @ SACRED SPACE COMMUNITY MEETING
Friday, December 5th 2003 3 PM
Sacred Space Healing Center 776 Haight Street (@ Scott)
Hear the candidates views on holistic health services and alternative healing in San Francisco.

Dolores Huerta Press Conference
Friday, December 5th 2003 1:15 PM
474 Valencia Street
1:15 PM Dolores Huerta Press Conference
Centro del Pueblo
474 Valencia Street

Matt Live on KTVU from Mission HQ
Friday, December 5th 2003 8:30 AM
KTVU - Ch.2 KTVU - Ch.2
KTVU - Ch.2

KPIX Interview - Ch.5
Friday, December 5th 2003 1:45 PM
KPIX Channel 5
Matt Live on TV from Mission HQ - KPIX Channel 5

Chinatown Merchant Walk for Matt!
Friday, December 5th 2003 2:00-5:00 PM
Grant Street gate at Bush (Chinatown gate). Chinatown Gate
Join us for a merchant walk and signage mobilization. Bilingual volunteers are highly encouraged to attend. Let's reach out to the Chinatown community!

Mattical Mass!
Friday, December 5th 2003 6:00 PM
Justin Herman Plaza
Meet at Justin Herman Plaza at 6pm- outfit your self and your bike with the orange and yellow- we'll ride through the Mission, the Haight, and SOMA, joined by Niko and his mobile sound system pumping the disco. This will be a legal ride (we will obey all traffic laws).

Bay Voice - 1400AM - Chinese Community Radio
Friday, December 5th 2003 6:15 PM
1400AM
Chinese Community Radio - 1400AM

WRITERS FOR GONZALEZ: Get Lit for Matt (as in literary)
Friday, December 5th 2003 7:00 PM
The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd Street (between Mission and Valencia)
Join local authors as they read in support of Matt's campaign. Matt Iribarne, Micheline Marcom, Peter Orner, Julie Orringer, plus more fabulous writers...

District 5 Volunteer and Supporter Rally
Friday, December 5th 2003 7:30- 9pm
Mad Dog in the Fog 530 Haight St (between Fillmore & Steiner)
Voluneers and Supporters rallying for the final weekend push. Come out, raise a glass, and help us get organized for the final days of the campaign

Party with Matt & Peter Camejo
Friday, December 5th 2003 8:00-10:00 PM
855 Fillmore (@Fulton)
Party with Matt & Peter Camejo
Live Music & Green Party Candidate for Governor Peter Camejo
855 Fillmore (@Fulton)

Benefit for Matt Gonzalez, Fundraiser
Friday, December 5th 2003 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM
2050 Bryant St. 2050 Bryant St.
Come join us at a fundraiser for Matt at the Cell Space! Artists will be creating work LIVE as bands perform!

Rock and Roll Politics #7 a fundraiser for Matt Gonzalez for Mayor of S.F.
Friday, December 5th 2003 8PM to Midnight
26 Mix 3024 Mission St. (@ 26th)
Do You Believe In The Rock and Roll Revolution???
Rock and Roll Politics #7
A fundraiser for Matt Gonzalez for Mayor
Live music by: Vikter VZ Xperience, Campfire Girls, Haze
Politics to be interjected between sets.
Starts electric, ends acoustic
26 Mix, Mission/26th

Good Bye Phil Willkie, Hello Matt
Friday, December 5th 2003 8 PM
Home of Lisa Niebauer and Mindy Oppenheim 855 Fillmore (@ Fulton)
Going away party/Matt fundraiser for gay Green Party activist Phil Willkie. Featuring legendary poets Harold Norse and Thom Gunn, musicians Blackberri and Garrin Benfield and special guests Peter Camejo and Jeff Adachi. RSVP: 415.401-0179 or ljniebauer@yahoo.com

Party with Matt on Clement Street at the 540 Club
Friday, December 5th 2003 9:00-11:00 PM
540 Cement Street (7th Ave)
Party with Matt on Clement Street (Matt is planning on stopping by, unsure as to when)!
540 Cement Street (7th Ave)

Sonoma Musicians Rally for Gonzalez and the Greens
Friday, December 5th 2003 9 PM
Jasper O'Farrell's in Sebastopol 6957 Sebastopol Ave.
(Sebastopol, CA) Performing artists and the group Derivative are
performing two shows to support San Francisco mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez and provide entertainment to supporters of the Gonzalez campaign.

Richmond for Matt
Friday, December 5th 2003 9:00 PM - 2:00 AM
540 Club 540 Clement St. (between 6th and 7th Aves)
Local restaurants will provide vittles. "Best jukebox in San Francisco!" The bar will provide a free refreshment for anyone donating. This is a fundraiser, folks, so come prepared to support Matt with your dollars...

Noise Rock and Poetry for Matt
Friday, December 5th 2003 10:00 pm
The Werepad! 2430 3rd St. (between 20th and 22nd)
Featuring: Eric Shea, Show Me State, Elephone and a late night set by LESSICK. Poetry of Micah Ballard, Sunny Lynn Thibodeaux, Eric Noonan, and Ryan Newton.

CANCELLED SORRY! - GOTV/Party Bus Project - Albion Castle
Saturday, December 6th 2003
BAYVIEW/HUNTERS POINT - Tha Albion Castle

Weekend Visibility Mobilization!
Saturday, December 6th 2003 10:00 AM
Mission Campaign Headquarters 1751 Mission (@ 13th)
This is the final weekend visibility mobilization. Come into Mission headquarters and pick up literature, signs tabling materials, and fellow Matt volunteers!

MATT MOBILES!
Saturday, December 6th 2003 10:00 a.m-12:00p.m.
Mission HQ
MATT MOBILES! Turn your car into a MATT MOBILE- let it speak for your support as you drive around the city-Matt signs in the windows, on the doors- be creative- come to the 13th & Mission St. parking lot or Mission Headquarters for materials & ideas this Sat.

Sunset Mobilization
Saturday, December 6th 2003 11:00 AM
Other Avenues Grocery 3930 Judah St.
Mobilize for Matt! Meet in front of Other Avenues Cooperative, 3930 Judah, near 45th Ave. for precinct walking and visibility.

Art Cars for Matt
Saturday, December 6th 2003 12noon
Fort Mason Parking Lot (Marina Blvd & Buchanan)
Car caravans aren't a new idea in political campaigns, but having an ART car caravan just might be. We are going to get at least 5 cool art cars, attach some Matt for Mayor signs on them, and drive around the City encouraging people to vote Dec. 9 for Matt.

ROCK OUT for Matt!
Saturday, December 6th 2003 1p.m.-2p.m.
Everywhere across San Francisco All Disctricts
Artists and musicians! Participate in Rock Out for Matt Gonzalez on Saturday, December 6th from 1pm-2pm. Set up your own show at an outdoor location of your choice (rooftop, street corner, park, etc.) or set up a show with a local shop (bookstore, coffee house, video rental shop, etc.) and join other artists and musicians as they perform SIMULTANEOUSLY for one hour throughout San Francisco to show support for Mayoral Candidate Matt Gonzalez. Register with us at http://rockoutsf.org

"Marina / Cow Hollow (District 2) Motorcade and Merchant Walk
Saturday, December 6th 2003 1:30PM to 3PM
2325 Union at Steiner (Meet at the Church of St. Mary's)
Meet Matt Gonzalez and talk to voters on Union Street. We will be
highly visible and rally our supporters in Gavin's home district by
simultaneously doing BOTH a motorcade and merchant walk!

Musicians for Matt at El Rio
Saturday, December 6th 2003 3-8pm
El Rio 3158 Mission St. (@ Cesar Chavez)
Benefit for Matt with 6 bands at the lovely El Rio. Bands include: The Quails, London Calling, Run Return, Roots of Orchis, Inventing Edward, Paper Trail, Plum. Recommended donation $5.

The Green Century Institute Presents Progressives United for Gonzalez
Saturday, December 6th 2003 6:00pm-10:00pm
The 3220 Building, Penthouse 3220 Sacramento (@ Lyon)
Awareness outreach to political progressives, Greens, and Democrats co-sponsored by Chris Daly, Aaron Peskin, and Tom Ammiano.
Semi-upscale cocktail party. Bar. Live music. Co-produced by the Anon Salon and Ursa Minor. $25 donation, no one turned away.
Entertainment by Spencer Sutherland (Spanish guitarist). DJs and others TBA. Catering by Miss P Segel formerly of Cafe Proust.

Love in the Time of Elections
Saturday, December 6th 2003 7:30PM
Back to the Picture 934 Valencia Street (between 20th &21st)
The Mission Latino Writers Group presents an evening of chocolate, music, and Spanish bilingual love poems.

Musicians for Matt at StudioZ
Saturday, December 6th 2003 8pm
Studio Z 314 11th Street (@ Folsom), SOMA
Musicians play for Matt! Performers are Harold Ray Live in Concert, Onelinedrawing, Japonize Elephants, The Evening, and Alicia van den Heuvel of Aislers Set. DJs Nick Tangborn, Eric Shea, John Pruett. Only three days till the election, folks, come on out...
Show starts at 8pm $10 - 15 cover (sliding scale)

Weekend Visibility Mobilization!
Sunday, December 7th 2003 10:00 AM
Mission Campaign Headquarters 1751 Mission (@ 13th) San Francisco 1751 Mission (@ 13th)
This is the final weekend visibility mobilization. Come into Mission headquarters and pick up literature, signs tabling materials, and fellow Matt volunteers!

Sunday in the Sunset
Sunday, December 7th 2003 11:45 AM
Skylight Cafe 1722 Taraval (between 27th & 28th Aves)
Meet at the Skylight Cafe, 1722 Taraval, between 27th and 28th Ave. One last chance to meet Matt in the Sunset, followed by mobilization to take our message to the neighborhood

VOTESTRATION part 2
Sunday, December 7th 2003 10am-4pm
Civic Center Plaza
Artists and musicians converge on Civic Center Plaza in an all day concert/rally to turn out the vote in support of Matt Gonzalez for Mayor. This event is a follow up to the Votestration Rally on November 22 in Dolores Park, where hundreds registered to vote and showed their support for progressive mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez. Boogie while you cast your vote at City Hall, open for polling from 10am until 4pm. Musicians, dancers, comedians, poets and speakers who will be performing at this event. There will be a big stage with lots of great talent; click above for details on specific performers.

City Ride: Motorcycles for Matt
Sunday, December 7th 2003 10:30am
Citywide ride starting at Dolores Park Cafe (501 Dolores at 18th) and ending at Zeitgeist on Valencia
This ride is for everyone -- girls and guys -- from the leftist activisty lefts to your dirtbag friends who don't really give a f@%# and just want to go for a ride. Even your friends with cars are welcome, if they can keep up. We meet at 10:30am and leave at 11am sharp, so come early if you want coffee! If you aren't able to make the ride, please join us at the Zeitgeist for raffle, feast, and swill. We will probably start showing up around 12 or so.
Raffle prizes donated by Scuderia West Motorcycles.

Meet and Eat BBQ
Sunday, December 7th 2003 3:00 - 4:00 PM
St. Francis Square (located at Western Shore and Laguna, one block from Geary and Laguna).
Come on down and enjoy delicious BBQ and great company!

KUSF 90.3 FM Interview with Matt
Sunday, December 7th 2003 4 - 6 pm
KUSF 90.3 FM
Interview with Matt Gonzalez by Josh Willson on KUSF 90.3 FM. A partial trascript is also online.

UNCOVERED Film Screening and Party for Matt
Sunday, December 7th 2003 Doors@6pm, Film screens@7pm, Music til midnight
Punch Gallery 155 Tenth Street (@ Mission)
"Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War" film screening and get out the vote party for Matt Gonzalez. The event will feature some of the Bay Aresa's best folk, jazz, and spoken word artists including Alphabet Soup, Mokai, Sandfly, DJ Metasense, and Anthem Salgado.

Pilates "Matt"
Sunday, December 7th 2003 6-8 pm
Ellie Herman Studio 1452 Valencia Street (@ 25th)
Come strengthen your core and support a Green Mayor for San Francisco. Pilates Mat, equipment classes and private sessions available on the hour at 6pm & 7pm at Ellie Herman Studios at 1452 Valencia Street @ 25th. Beginners welcome. Donations of $20 and up; all proceeds benefit Matt Gonzalez for Mayor. Call 285-5808 to reserve a spot, or just drop by. For more info see www.ellie.net.

Meet the Next Mayor of San Francisco
Sunday, December 7th 2003 7PM-9PM
USF Presentation Theatre in the Education Building 2350 Turk Street (@Tamalpais, just west of Masonic)
Matt Gonzalez will speak on the topic of "Progressive Politics". If you are undecided, come hear Matt speak and answer questions. Only first 500 people will be admitted, so come early. Admission is free.

Sonoma Musicians Rally for Gonzalez and the Greens
Sunday, December 7th 2003 9 PM
Club Galia 2565 Mission St. (between 21st and 22nd)
(San Francisco, CA) Performing artists and the funk, hip-hop, blues group Derivative are performing two shows to support San Francisco mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez and provide entertainment to supporters of the Gonzalez campaign.

Punks for Matt at Slim's (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)
Monday, December 8th 2003 9pm
Slim's 333 11th St. (@ Folsom), SOMA
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (punk's premier covers band!) along with Jello Biafra, Pepperspray and Hot Pink Feathers (girls burlesque). $15 recommended donation. High profile event, please come!

The last Galia event for Matt!
Monday, December 8th 2003 9pm
Club Galia Mission Street between 21st and 22nd
Four bands donating the night's proceeds to Matt's campaign: Switchblades, Orbit to Leslie, War Bunny, and October Allied. Come on out.

Election Night Party
Tuesday, December 9th 2003 8pm-2am
Mission Headquarters 1751 Mission (@ Duboce/13th)
Par-tay! We're going to tent up the backyard and have two stages with DJs and live bands representing the best of SF's music scene. Come rub shoulders with your fellow Matt supporters as we await election results and congratulate everyone on a job well done.

Note: this party is taking place at Mission Headquarters, not 111 Minna. Open to the public. Free.

Performers include: Broun Fellinis, Folk This, Tussle, and DJs Laird, Pollywog, Cari Campbell, Shakatura, Eric Quesada, and Allan from Aquarius Records. Other performers TBA.

Election Day GOTV Phonebanking
Tuesday, December 9th 2003 9:00am-8:00pm
Mission Headquarters 1751 Mission (@ Duboce/13th)

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts across all performance disciplines and incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous, starkly beautiful, supremely talented and horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct.

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Gonz/Newsom debate this evening...

annie — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:22:39 GMT

will be on at the rite spot cafe if anyone wants to come out and watch. come say hi, I will be the bartender.

annie

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Pickin' Trix at Odeon Mon. Dec. 1

Amykins — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:05:34 GMT

Hello one and all... hope everyone's Thanksgiving went well.. we're still digesting, fo' sho'!

Hopefully the long weekend will find ya'll ready to come out on a Monday night to a crazy show at the Odeon bar in San Francisco. Pickin' Trix opens for Loretta Lynch at 9:00 pm. This is a FREE SHOW, by the way, and in the Mission's craziest dive bar.. not the usual dive-type bar we play in, but actually a cool one!

Monday night will be a fabulous night to par-tay, know why? Because WE will be par-tay-ing in full-ass fashion, know why? Because it's the kick-off to these damned holidays and we have no choice but to numb ourselves through just to tolerate 'em! Stress, overwork, low funds, saying "Thank you sir may I have another?!" while the boss hauls off another ass-beating, long lines, and a surly capitalistic atmosphere of never-ending ads clamoring for our attention and our money. Heads up, ya'll... the holiday bull is charging toward us, horns aimed.

Doncha think we oughta kick off the season properly... with friends- old and new- gripping a mug of your drink-o-choice and getting out some aggressions with some mean gnarly jokes and bad pick-up lines? We say uh-huh!!! Come join us!

The uplifting part of the evening will be the chance to hear the lovely Loretta Lynch perform! These broads, in case you haven't heard, are the greatest girlie group around. Don't let them fool you with their good looks, sweet smiles, and beautiful soaring 3-part harmonies. Like all good sirens, they're just reeling you in. Listen closely to those lyrics and you'll find some dark naughtiness dwelling in there. Truth, at last.

The details:

Monday, December 1, 2003

Odeon Bar
3223 Mission Street
San Francisco

9:30 showtime
Pickin' Trix
Loretta Lynch

HOLIDAY DEBAUCHERY.

Can't wait to see you!
XOXO
Camille & Xenia

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multi-form cabinet

banjolismo — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:07:28 GMT

seeking performers to add to our east-oaklandish krewe, it is a variety show for magical musicians, performance art puppeteers, mad poets, and all manner of vaudvillian hobohemian jug band burelsque side show spectaculars and whatever what have you. I invite you to participate in this event and to join our tribe, 37
Dr. Leopold

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Sun 11/16--Stork Club--Save Open Mic Night!

alih — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:01:39 GMT

Oakland is close to losing it's Sunday night open mic at the Stork Club. Girl George, who runs the night, tells me that if they don't get a good turnout this week it's CURTAINS for them.

They're welcoming ANY kind of acts (it's generally a music open mic), with the exception of fire and such.

Come out for a drink, perform or just watch, or to say 'hi'.

Stork Club's at 2330 Telegraph Ave (23-24th), walkable from 19th Street BART.

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News...or what went out to the ASS CAB mail list a few minutes ago

annie — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:08:33 GMT

Partyball and Mrs Partyball are off in Thailand, I got a note from each of them from some internet cafe in the middle of nowhere...they have arrived safe and sound and are muchly enjoying "paradise", words they both used separately. I am very envious, needing a vacation badly!

ACTV will be on again on Channel 29 this Monday at 12:30 am and 1:30 am. Turn on and tune in, man. I will probably watch it again down at the Rite Spot, should you care for a late Monday pm. There are going to be other showings on Channel 29 but it will always be late night due to the "adult" content, I recommend setting your TiVo's or whatever to record it. It is pretty cool to see you beautiful stars on the television set. Hurrah and congratulations and thanks and happy birthday to Tina Gordon for hooking that shit up! You rock!

Sarah Harbin is designing a website for Acid Cabaret which will link all you contributors and performers eventually. If anyone wants to contribute to this, please let me know. Any and all pictures, graphics or old flyers you have would be cool to have to scan. Please send them to me at anniesouth@earthlink.net asap!

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Votestration Festival for Matt Gonzalez in Dolores Park Saturday, November 22, from 1 to 4pm in San Francisco.s scenic Dolores Park, located at Dolores and 18th Street.

http://votestration.com

If you haven't registered to vote, or need to re-register because you've moved, or need to come out and see puppets, dancers, bands, artists, the general arts community in force during the day at the park... please do so. Drag your friends... register then vote. There was only a 39% turn out for the previous election... PLEASE vote.

There is a comprehensive fundraiser, voter rally, get involved list at the bottom of this newsletter... pick a few and make a go at it. It's fun to care and it's evener more fun to vote. The earlier the better, vote anytime until December 9 at City Hall.

To vote early in person and avoid long lines at the polls on election day:

Go to the Department of Elections beginning October 9:
Room 48, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett,
Monday - Friday-- 8:00 am. to 5:00 pm.
Saturday - Sunday--10:00 am. to 4:00 pm.

You don't have to give a reason for voting early.

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from a nice guy named fucko:

MYSDOM needs performers

grettings.

Mysdom is a interafctive show using big puppets, dancers, blacklights and tons of atmosphre shit. (Sort of a "Where the Wild Things Are meets Tron."
I know everyone is so busy, but We need your help. We are building a Mysdom to go to Burningman 2004 with some pre shows as venue and fundraising allow. To be honest, we are all artist not performers and don't know shit about performance. Acid Cabaret has tremendous energy and more importantly to us, experience. Anyone who can give us advise about audience participation venues, lighting, sound, pressence or anything, we are all ears. You can check our concept page at:

www.imaginaryartstudios.com/mysdom.html

we are having our first production meeting on;

december 2 2003 at 9:oo pm in Berkeley (bart access)

Don't know if we can help out with your projects (besides attending )but would be gald to help out if we can. burn well and see you guys at the next show.

write fucko @ mysdom@imaginaryartstudios.com
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Friday, November 28... Diana Darby and Sonya Hunter at The Epic Arts Tea House in Berkeley. The performance space is at 1923 Ashby (at MLK) directly across from Ashby Bart.

Doors open @ 8... Diana starts the show about 8:30 pm $7 -$10 sliding scale- children are welcome...unfortunately the room is not wheel chair accessible.

"Diana Darby achieves a rare mixture of softness and strength on Fantasia Ball. The album is unassuming, mostly based on guitar and Darby's voice, but that voice is so dreamy and lovely that it's plenty enough. Just try to imagine an earthier Kendra Smith, or perhaps a less cloying Hope Sandoval."
--Elisabeth Vincentelli Time Out NY

Sonya Hunter- "Her songs fall forth like conversations casually exchanged, their strengths lie not in grand statements but in the quiet turn of a phrase, a word repeated and played with until it means a whole range of things. This is the stuff of daily life, set to tunes you'll find yourself humming under your breath." — Ann Powers (NY Times Pop Critic)

Also

Sunday, November 30, Ray's Vast Basement, Gris Gris and Diana Darby
@ The Make Out Room 8:30 pm $6.00

Also

Wednesday, December 10...

Women's Performance Night #13
Jolie Holland, Caroleen Beautty (Waycross), Odessa Chen
Diana Darby, Bonfire Madigan and Rykarda Parasol

1/2 sets each beginning @ 8:30 pm
@ Cafe Du Nord 1970 Market Street @ Sanchez
$6.00

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petition to keep bart running til 3 am

http://www.petitiononline.com/BART3am/petition.html

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Playing in Fog Presents
Beam
Willow Willow

November 22, 2003
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street, SF
$6.oo . 10pm

Beam's self-titled debut album pays homage to the
gently psychedelic folk-pop of the late sixties with
enough originality to pull it off without sounding
'retro' or 'retreaded.' Led by Helene Renaut, a French
ex-pat who busked gypsy songs on the violin to finance
a move to San Francisco in 1995, Beam wears it's
eclectic pop sensibility on it's sleeve, smoothly
flowing from driving baroque pop to dreamy canyon
rock.

Beam's songs are full of complex, brooding melodies
and dark psychedelia but Helene also understands the
payoff of a good hook. Singing mostly in English, she
tells her stories of love, loss, and renewed hope in a
voice that is world-weary and yet still recklessly
naïve. Beam's self-titled debut features performances
from members of Call and Response, Subtle/Themselves
(anticon), the Moore Brothers, and Cat Five. It was
recorded by Jeremy Goody and Mikel Garmendia (Beam's
lead guitarist), the duo responsible for recording
Mikel's other band, Winfred E. Eye.

Willow Willow are Miranda and Jessica, childhood friends, now
all growed up into one of the sweetest vocal harmonizing,
acoustic guitar pop folk acts in SF. (Hemlock mail list)

Wednesday, November 26th
Casual Dots, Husbands, The Dishes
Hemlock Tavern
10pm, $6

Washington, D.C.'s Casual Dots features vocalist, Christina
Billotte of Quix*o*tic, along with Kathi Wilcox from Bikini Kill.
"Sparse, soulful, poppy and absolutely refreshing," says Kill
Rock Stars about their forthcoming album.

The Husbands are two guitars, drums & percussion primitive
rock. They will be hot off their 30-date US tour.

Hailing from Chicago, "The DISHES' third outing is a dirty,
guitar-fueled rock 'n' roll romp that makes no attempt to educate,
innovate or indulge; it simply kicks out the jams all loud and
nasty-like. You will thank them for this." - Spendid E-Zine

http://members.cox.net/thehusbands/
http://www.thedishes.com/bio.html

also from the hemlock mail list courtesy of Anthony Bedard

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Matt-Raisers list....
Club Galia
Thursday, November 20th 2003 TBD
MISSION - Club Galia

Ferlinghetti for Matt
Thursday, November 20th 2003 8:30pm - 11:30pm
NORTH BEACH - City Lights Books

Hayes Valley Neighborhood Assoc. Town Hall Meeting
Thursday, November 20th 2003 7:00-8:00pm
First Baptist Church--7 Octavia St @ Waller
Townhall format.

Phonebanking
Thursday, November 20th 2003
Mission Headquarters--1751 Mission St
The campaign has launched an aggressive telephone outreach program for the runoff election. We've got 38 phone lines that we are using to identify Matt Gonzalez voters. Come on in and we'll give you a list of voters and talking points and get you started.

Lions and Friends for Matt at the Latin
Thursday, November 20th 2003 6:30-9:00 PM
Latin American Club
Join a group of Columbia alums and friends for a drink at the Latin American Club on Thursday to support (or just find out more about) Matt Gonzalez' (CC'87) campaign for mayor.
See some old friends, catch up, get involved in the future of our City.

Potrero Hill Pub Crawl
Thursday, November 20th 2003 9:00 pm
Mission HQ
After meeting at Mission HQ, we'll go to Potrero Hill bars to pass out lit, register voters, and generally get people excited about Matt.

Bernal for Matt - Wild Side West
Friday, November 21st 2003 6:30pm
BERNAL - Wild Side West, 424 Cortland

Bash and Cash for Matt for Mayor
Friday, November 21st 2003 8pm-2am
26 Mix-on Mission @ 26th HELP MAKE MATT GONZALEZ OUR MAYOR! KEEP SF A HUMANE CITY FOR EVERYONE! DJs Cliché 26:Jonah Sharp, Polywog and Dagny PLUS Creeper and Citroën Suggested Donation: $20 and up. Donations above $20 are strongly encouraged and payable by credit card or check to “Matt Gonzalez for Mayor.” No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

It's Yoga Fundraiser
Friday, November 21st 2003 7:30 PM
4th & Folsom - Everyone is welcome to attend this event please bring good vibes and your support. We will have food and drink and great music.
Everyone is welcome to attend this event Tickets are not required!! Please bring good vibes and your support. We will have food and drink and great music.

See you there!!!

District 5 volunteer coordinating party
Friday, November 21st 2003 7:30pm
Mad Dog in the Fog
Mad Dog in the Fog
Haight, at Fillmore
The great district 5 team is getting together again this Friday at 7:30pm to organize, train, and have fun for the coming weekend.

House Party
Saturday, November 22nd 2003
341 Willard North (off of Fulton between Stanyan and Arguello)
4 Bands and Readings

Musicians For Matt
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 TBD

Enviromental Press Conference
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 11:00-12:00pm
Bay View Office

Dolores Park Voter Registration
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 3:00-4:00pm
Dolores Park
Voter registration drive.

Mission Headquarters Rally
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 10:30am
Mission Headquarters--1751 Mission St

Phonebanking
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 1:00-5:00pm
Mission Headquarters-1751 Mission St
The campaign has launched an aggressive telephone outreach program for the runoff election. We've got 38 phone lines that we are using to identify Matt Gonzalez voters. Come on in and we'll give you a list of voters and talking points and get you started.

Pachanga Art Auction/Sale
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 7:00-9:00pm
Galeria de la Raza--2857 24th St
Pachanga Art Auction/Sale hosted by Coco Lopez and Rene Garcia at Galeria de la Raza

Parkmerced Residents Organization Special Community Meeting
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Parkmerced Shopping Center
A special public meeting sponsored by the Parkmerced Residents Organization will be held on Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 77 Cambon Drive (Parkmerced Shopping Center), from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Steve Riter, Mission Valley Properties developer will present his firm's proposal for an 183-unit planned housing development on an 8-acre undeveloped parcel at Parkmerced. All Parkmerced residents and interested citizens are encouraged to attend this important meeting.

Rock the Richmond for Matt
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 10:00 a.m.
Zazen Coffee House
Speakers will include Matt Gonzalez, Supervisor Jake McGoldrick (invited) and School Board Members Mark Sanchez and Sarah Lipson get out the vote in the Richmond District. After
the rally, help us hand out literature about Matt's campaign throughout the Richmond.

Lower Haight House Party
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 9pm
607 Waller Street (btw pierce and scott)
come by the lower haight to feel the support for Matt. you are welcome to donate to the Matt for Mayor cause, or just come by for some awareness and enthusiasm! we will have voter reg forms plus some refreshments.

VOTESTRATION! part 1 -- REGISTER TO VOTE
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 1-4pm
Dolores Park
Mobilize for voter registration and other campaign activities, and just have a great time! Participants include the Xeno Dance Troupe, machine art by Kal Spelletich, bicycle art, stilt walkers, Vanessa Marrison singing, Beat poets, SF Liberation Radio, and more. Matt will appear sometime between 3-4pm.

Bookstores for Matt
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 3:00pm
Bird and Becket Bookstore--2788 Diamond St
Bookstore meet and greet

Artists For Matt at The Loft
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 8:00pm - 11:00pm
The Loft
Musicians, Poets, Artists, Storytellers, Performers, and Activists come together to help make History. Admission Free.

Harvey Milk Memorial March
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 5-6:00pm
Market & Castro
Candlelight March

**CANCELLED** Eddie Cantrell House Party
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 7-11:00pm
1417 15th St (@ Folsom)

Phonebanking
Sunday, November 23rd 2003
Mission Headquarters--1751 Mission St
The campaign has launched an aggressive telephone outreach program for the runoff election. We've got 38 phone lines that we are using to identify Matt Gonzalez voters. Come on in and we'll give you a list of voters and talking points and get you started.

The Big House Fundraiser
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 6:00-11:00pm
The Big House--1417 15th St (@ Folsom)
Live music and art.

Mission Headquarters Mobilization
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 11:00am
Mission Headquarters Mobilization

Excelsior Merchant Walk
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 11:00-1:15pm
4754 Mission St @ Russia Ave

Skate for Matt
Sunday, November 23rd 2003 12:00-4:00pm
Mission Branch Headquarters
Quality Bad, the baddest roller skating gang, will be decked out in our finest glittery costumes, skating for Matt, on Sunday, November 23rd. We'll hang posters, make noise, hand out flyers and make heads turn as we roll around town. Roller skaters, skateboarders, and even (Gasp!) inline skaters (this is no time for segregation) welcome. Wacky costumes encouraged.

Comedians for Matt
Monday, November 24th 2003
MISSION - Hyena Theatre 2
MISSION - Hyena Theatre 2

Get Out The Vote UN Plaza
Monday, November 24th 2003 12-6:00pm
UN Plaza
Get Out The Vote in UN Plaza

KGO Debate
Monday, November 24th 2003 1:30-3:00pm
KGO Studio
KGO Debate

"Mattsimum" Rock 'n Roll Show and Fundraiser
Monday, November 24th 2003 8pm-2am
Galia
Three local bands come out to support Matt and you should too. THE ACCIDENTAL BEAUTIES, PIRATE RADIO, WOLFDOGS and after the bands, DJ BABY DADDY. $6.

SF Motorcycle / Bike Coalition
Tuesday, November 25th 2003 8:00pm
MISSION - Club Galia

Comedians for Matt
Tuesday, November 25th 2003 8:00pm
SUNSET - Canvas Lounge

Phonebanking
Tuesday, November 25th 2003 6:00-9:00pm
Mission Headquarters--1751 Missio nSt
The campaign has launched an aggressive telephone outreach program for the runoff election. We've got 38 phone lines that we are using to identify Matt Gonzalez voters. Come on in and we'll give you a list of voters and talking points and get you started.

"The Lab" Art Auction
Tuesday, November 25th 2003 6:00-9:00pm
2948 16th St @ Capp
Sponsored by the Redstone Tenants Association

Chinese Radio Broadcast
Tuesday, November 25th 2003 9:00-10:00am
1400am

Clement Merchant Walk
Tuesday, November 25th 2003 11:00am
TBA

**CANCELLED** Cafe du Nord Party
Tuesday, November 25th 2003

Phonebanking
Wednesday, November 26th 2003 6:00-9:00pm
Mission Headquarters--1751 Mission St
The campaign has launched an aggressive telephone outreach program for the runoff election. We've got 38 phone lines that we are using to identify Matt Gonzalez voters. Come on in and we'll give you a list of voters and talking points and get you started.

Critical Mass
Friday, November 28th 2003 5:45pm
Justin Hermann Plaza - foot of Market St.
CITYWIDE: Outfit your bike with Matt signs, and bring literature to pass out!
After party at Galia Club - 2565 Mission Street (between 21st & 22nd)

SAVE OUR CITY! - Matt Gonzales for Mayor Fundraiser
Friday, November 28th 2003 8:00pm
MISSION - Club Galia, 2565 Mission @ 22nd street
Come out for a post-turkey day stretch and bask in some of the best local entertainment while lending support to the rapidly growing grassroots phenomenon that is the Matt Gonzales for Mayor run-off campaign.

Redrock Cocktail Lounge
Friday, November 28th 2003 8:30-9:30pm
699 Chennery

MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS
Friday, November 28th 2003 11:59pm
4-STAR Movie Theatre
Filmed right on the tip of Alternative Rock's nipple, 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE documented an amazing amount of footage from NiRVANA, SONiC YOUTH, MUDHONEY, DiNOSAUR JR., and THE RAMONES. The interviews are truly hilarious & poignant, while the performances give you an extremely rare look at NiRVANA & SONiC YOUTH before both "Nevermind," & "Dirty" respectively came out. The film rilly does define the early ninties in all of it's "fudge-packin, crack-smokin, devil-worshippin" glory. And with the sad news of Elliot Smith recently commiting suicide, the performances by Kurt Cobain and Joey & DeeDee Ramone are even more timely & relevant than ever before. The proceeds of the night will be donated to the MATT GONZALEZ campaign. Show up around 11:30pm for tons of music, giveaways & trailers before the film.

Go-Go GONZALEZ!

"Soulflow" Yoga w/Michael Cooper
Saturday, November 29th 2003
Yoga for Matt - Volunteer Headquarters

Moms for Matt Glen Park Location TBA
Sunday, November 30th 2003 2-4 pm
Glen Park Rec Center, Bosworth & O'Shaughnessy
Come meet the candidate and hear his views on parks, education and raising kids in San Francisco. (Dads included!)

Mystery Celebs for Matt
Sunday, November 30th 2003 8:00pm
TENDERLOIN - Great American Music Hall
Great America Music Hall

Poets for Mayor Matt Gonzalez
Sunday, November 30th 2003 6:00-9:00 PM
Studio Z, 314 11th Street @ Folsom, San Francisco
A Poetry Reading

The Eagle Bar Event
Sunday, November 30th 2003 3:15-5:00pm
The Eagle Bar--12th & Brannon

Poetry Event w/George Evans
Sunday, November 30th 2003 7:00pm-9:00pm
Studio Z
George Evans, Ferlinghetti, and others

Townhall Meeting
Sunday, November 30th 2003 5-6pm
Noe Valley Ministry
Free Townhall Meeting and Q&A
You've heard his opponent's platform -- Now come ask the President of the SF Board of Supervisors MATT GONZALEZ all the tough questions you need answered to make an informed choice for Mayor of San Francisco.

House Party
Monday, December 1st 2003 8:00pm - 10:00pm
COLE VALLEY

Event/Art Auction
Monday, December 1st 2003
UNION SQUARE - Shelton Theatre
UNION SQUARE - Shelton Theatre

LGBT Event
Monday, December 1st 2003 7:30-8:30pm
TBA

Musicians for Matt
Tuesday, December 2nd 2003
MISSION - Make Out Room

Filmakers for Matt
Tuesday, December 2nd 2003
MISSION - Club Galia

League of Women Voters Debate
Tuesday, December 2nd 2003 6-7:00pm
KPIX studios
Televised Debate, Chronicle, KPIX, KCBC, Chamber of Commerce (SOLD OUT)

Turntablists for Matt
Wednesday, December 3rd 2003
SOMA - DNA Lounge

Poets for Matt
Thursday, December 4th 2003 6:30-9:00pm
MISSION - New College

Richmond for Matt
Friday, December 5th 2003
RICHMOND - 540 Club

Noise Rock and Poetry for Matt
Friday, December 5th 2003 10:00 pm
Werepad: 2430 3rd St (between 20th and 22nd Sts) in San Francisco, CA
Featuring: LESSICK w/ the Poetry of Micah Ballard and Friends

Sean Adhern Fundraiser
Friday, December 5th 2003 7:00pm-9:00pm
Marina TBA

Musicians for Matt
Saturday, December 6th 2003
SOMA - Studio Z
SOMA - Studio Z

GOTV/Party Bus Project - Albion Castle
Saturday, December 6th 2003
BAYVIEW/HUNTERS POINT - Tha Albion Castle

BAMCC
Sunday, December 7th 2003
CITYWIDE - Motorcycle Run for Matt

Punks for Matt at Slim's (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)
Monday, December 8th 2003 9pm
Slim's
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (punk's premier covers band!) along with Jello Biafra and other guests to be added. Check this site for updated info. $15 recommended donation. High profile event, please come!

Election night party
Tuesday, December 9th 2003
111 Minna

Election Day GOTV Phonebanking
Tuesday, December 9th 2003 9:00am-8:00pm
Mission Headquarters--1751 Mission St

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts across all performance disciplines and incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous, starkly beautiful, supremely talented and horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct.

For more information contact: anniesouth@earthlink.net

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MYSDOM needs performers

fucko — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:11:12 GMT

grettings.

Mysdom is a interafctive show using big puppets, dancers, blacklights and tons of atmosphre shit. (Sort of a "Where the Wild Things Are meets Tron."
I know everyone is so busy, but We need your help. We are building a Mysdom to go to Burningman 2004 with some pre shows as venue and fundraising allow. To be honest, we are all artist not performers and don't know shit about performance. Acid Cabaret has tremendous energy and more importantly to us, experience. Anyone who can give us advise about audience participation venues, lighting, sound, pressence or anything, we are all ears. You can check our concept page at:

www.imaginaryartstudios.com/mysdom.html

We are looking to start our production meetings in late Nov in the San Fran Bay area (berklyish).

Don't know if we can help out with your projects (besides attending )but would be gald to help out if we can.
burn well and see you guys at the next show.
fucko

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Acid Cabaret TV (ACTV) on Cable Access Channel 29 the next two Monday nights!

annie — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 04:52:46 GMT

For the next two Mondays Acid Cabaret TV (ACTV) will be on at 12:30am(ep.1) and 1:30am(ep.2). Tune in on Ch. 29!!

If you don't have cable, come on down to the Rite Spot where we will be watching it!

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A Fundraiser for Matt Gonzales

The Uptown - Sunday 11/16 4pm
17th and Capp in the Mission, SF
BBQ - Bakesale - Fundraiser
"Get Fat For Matt"
Live Music, Phil Crumar and Others....
www.philcrumar.com

To donate baked goods, contact Alison @ 415-587-
8228

I am also tossing around the idea to have a voter rally on Monday, December 8 at the Rite Spot... election's eve. Maybe some acoustic performers. Anyone interested in helping? Also looking for someone who can and will help me make some tshirts to wear/give out/sell for cost saying "Vote you Idiots". Any one have connections and inclinations to help with this? email anniesouth@earthlink.net

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and if you are still home tonight... check out Joe's Party

What:
GRAZIE! GRAZIE! GRAZIE!
A fun-raising benefit to support Joe Mangrums Trip to Florence Biennale
http://www.florencebiennale.org

When:
Friday November 14th 2003
10pm-2am
!
Music and more 10pm til late
$5-$15 Sliding Scale

Where:
111 Minna Gallery San Francisco between 2nd and New Montgomery and Mission
and Howard streets http://www.111minnagallery.com

Live installation and Photography by Joe Mangrum
With Supporting guest performances by.........

DJ SOULSALAAM (Future JUJU)
GOOFERMAN http://www.gooferman.com
DJ OTTER http://www.lolabrown.com
Sean Hayes ....ambient folk-hop http://www.snailbluerecordings.com/
Enzo Garcia (acid cabaret) http://enzogarcia.com
DJ NOME

Tarot by BIG AEION
And special guests......

Silent Art auction auction ends at 12midnight get your bids in early
-auction of great prizes !!! Raffle's and more!!

Some items up for auction:

Yoga lessons
Legal Services
Chiropractic care
Tarot readings
Astrology chart
Concannon Wine
CD's
Photos from ACTV
Facility3 Archive
Joe's Monkey
And OHHHHH LORD what a CxxK

Joe Mangrum
411 Pierce Street #9
San Francisco Ca. 94117
(415) 551-8180
joe@facility3.com

Please Check my website http://www.joemangrum.com
Also check http://www.facility3.com for details on Facility3 Artspace

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or

Rosin Coven's Odeon Menagerie

Friday, Nov 14th AND Saturday, Nov 15th

9:00pm-2:00am

$10, cheaper if you're a wild animal.

----> Event Description <-----------------------------------------------

What do the Pagan Lounge,
a one-man cowboy show,
and the world’s heaviest kitchen-appliance band
have in common?

NOTHING...except the fact that they, and a star-studded cast including Mr. Lucky, The
Fou Fou Ha! Dancing Girls, and David Hasselhoff (maybe) are appearing this weekend at
the infamous Odeon Bar! So join the Menagerie!*

(*Menagerie: a collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially for exhibition)

TWO NIGHTS!
Fri Nov 14th & Sat Nov 15th

The doors go a-flyin’ open at 9pm
and then we’re not really responsible
for what madness ensues...

Featuring:

** The World Premiere of CAST IRON MAIDEN and their awesome onslaught of Kitchen
Appliance Metal Madness
** The TOWNE DANDIES’ unforgettable western epic “Stay Cowboy 3000”
** NEVER BEFORE SEEN music & theater from ROSIN COVEN, including Broadway hits,
Sesame Street classics, and Czech drinking songs

Oh, and, um...don't wear your *best* clothes, ok?

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The Odeon
3223 Mission (at Valencia)
San Francsico
415.550.6994
http://www.odeonbar.com

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Reminder, Scorpio Party:

The Mercy House 1360 Mission St. (between 9th & 10th), San Francisco, CA
Saturday, November 15, 10:00pm

10p-11:15 DJ King Coffin (Sexotica)
11:15- 1 DJ Cheb i Sabbah (Six Degrees Records)
1-2:45 DJ Lorin (Bassnectar.net)
2:45-4:30 DJ Soulsalaam (Future JuJu)
4:30+ DJ Shawna (Aspara)

Brain-Washing Visuals by:
Doctor Spook

Pulsate to the nebulistic undulations of...
Irisius!
Nanna Candelaria & Troupe Tabu!
Melodishiva!
The Storm Sisters!
Barbarella & The Space Vixens!

Fashion Show by: NOMADIA *Tribal Style*

*Take a ride on the Space Harem Dance Floor!
*Wander the Outer Limits of The Planet Psychodelia!
*Lose yourself in the Labyrinth of the Scorpio Love Lair!
*Or Blast off in the Retro-Rocket Bar!!
w/ Rock Star Bartenders & $1-$2 drink donations!

IT'S A BONSTER PARTY, SO GET YOUR BOOTY IN COSTUME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

21+ w/ ID!! *SCORPIOS w/ ID get a Birthday Present!!!*

$15 - In Super Space Harem Costume! Futuristic Exotica!
$20 - Everyone Else!

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http://www.aphrodesia.org

Ezra and Mully's (Church of Funk, Funkmobile) Afro-cuban booty shakin` good time band.
Thursday, November 20:
The Temple Bar, 1026 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, Aphrodesia hits at 10 PM.
Friday, November 21:
Fais Do Do, 5257 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, benefit for AIDS Project LA
w/ Fela tribute Afrobeat Down. Aphrodesia hits at 11 PM.

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts across all performance disciplines and incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous, starkly beautiful, supremely talented and horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct.

For more information contact: anniesouth@earthlink.net

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Busy, Busy... So much to do!

annie — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:07:59 GMT

Go, Matt Gonzales! Vote! Harrass your friends into voting. It's *that* fucking important and so very exciting that we are *this* close to having Matt Gonzales as our mayor.

If you are not registered to vote... it's very easy. Information here. Do not delay. www.smartvoter.org
It's amazing the amount of people I run into that say, I don't vote. You must vote. Please vote. You *do* matter. Do what you can, get involved.

Matt needs help! Volunteer!

30 parties in 30 days for Matt Gonzalez!
For more information, please contact Marlena Sonn:
marlenasonn@juno.com or tamararibas@hotmail.com

Schedule subject to change and add ons

Adobe, Ebb Tide, and City Car Share benefit at 111 Minna already took place

Tues 11/11, 9pm, POTRERO - Lingba Lounge, 1496 18th Street, Tiki for Matt

Wed 11/12, 7.30pm, RICHMOND - Cultural Integration Fellowship 2650 Fulton, Meditation for Matt

Thurs 11/13, 6-9pm, NOE VALLEY/GLEN PARK - 157 Randall (x Church), private house party

Friday 11/14, 6pm, CHINATOWN - New Asia Restaurant, 772 Pacific Chinese Banquet, $250 donation per person, please

Sat 11/15, 7pm, WESTERN ADDITION - 1955 McAllister Street (at Lyon), Private Karaoke Party

Sat 11/15,10pm, EMBARCADERO - Dub FX at Pier 23, Reggae for Matt

Sun 11/16, 4-7pm, OUTER RICHMOND - Café Bazaar, 5927 California, Café Visit with Matt!

Sun 11/16, time TBD, MISSION - Guillermo Gomez Pena/Keith Hennessey, private house party

Mon 11/17, 6-9pm, LOWER HAIGHT - 375 Hermann Street (x Fillmore), house party - public

Tues 11/18 TBD

Wed 11/19, 6.30-10.00, POTRERO HILL - Club Cocomo, 650 Indiana, Musicians for Matt

Thurs 11/20, 5.30-8.30, SOMA - Martini Bar, Hall of Justice party

Thurs 11/20, 8.30-11.30, NORTH BEACH - City Lights Books, 261 Columbus), Ferlinghetti for Matt

Fri 11/21, 6.30pm, BERNAL - Wild Side West, 424 Cortland, Dykes for Matt

Sat 11/22, time TBD, EAST BAY rocks for Matt, Musicians for Matt

Sun 11/23, TBD

Mon 11/24, MISSION - Hyena Theatre 2390 Mission #304 (at 20th), Comedians for Matt!

Tues 11/25,8-10pm, NORTH BEACH Seth Katzman 530 Chestnut #411, private house party

Tues 11/25, 8pm, SUNSET - Canvas Lounge, 1200 9th Ave (at Lincoln), Comedians for Matt!

Wed 11/26 , TBD

Thurs 11/27, BLACKOUT - THANKGIVING

Fri 11/28, CITYWIDE- Critical Matt - SF Bike Coalition, bike ride to party TBD

Sat 11/29, Yoga for Matt - Location TBD,"Soulflow" Yoga, Michael Cooper

Sat 11/30, Glen Park - Moms for Matt, Location TBD

Mon 12/01, 8-10pm, COLE VALLEY, private house party

Mon 12/01, UNION SQUARE - Shelton Theatre, Event/Art Auction

Tues 12/2, BLACKOUT - DEBATE

Wed 12/3, SOMA - DNA Lounge, Rockers for Matt organized by Jeff Ray

Thurs 12/4, MISSION -New College, 776 Valencia, Poets/Open Mike for Matt

Fri 12/5, 9pm, RICHMOND - 540 Club, Richmond Hipsters for Matt

Sat 12/6 8pm, BAYVIEW/HUNTERS POINT - Tha Albion Castle GOTV/party bus project (NEED HELP ORGANIZING!!!)

Sun 12/7 10am TBD, CITYWIDE - Motorcycle Run for Matt, GOTV

Mon 12/8, TBD

Tues 12/9, SOMA - 111 Minna, Election night party

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We are working on airing ACTV 1 and 2 on cable access... we will keep you posted. Also, tossing around the idea of a New Years Acid Cabaret. Any venue ideas? Please write me at anniesouth@earthlink.net if you have any suggestions or have one yourself. We'd love to make this happen.

If you have events you want to promote or want to discuss anything performance, event or Acid Cabaret please join the Acid Cabaret tribe on www.tribe.net It's good over there.

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TONIGHT!

Wednesday, November 12
BOOTIE, the monthly
mash-up bootleg party at the Cherry Bar, 917
Folsom at 5th, San Francisco. (old CW
Saloon)

flyer/info: www.blue-period.com/bootie

We're the first ALL-bootleg club in the U.S.,
spinning only bastard pop -- two songs
mashed-up into one! It's going to be a blast,
with myself and the Mysterious D spinning,
along with Matty C doing a set of rock 'n' roll
mash-ups early in the evening, and the
Reverend Slick 1%er doing a set of his own
custom-made bootlegs -- Rev Slick has some
interesting stuff in store for you guys.

Princess Kennedy and Precious Moments will
be doing a mash-up lip-sync performance,
along with Trixxie Carr doing a performance of
the Bjork vs. The Cure bootleg that was the
inspiration for this month's flyer. And not only
that, but hot go-go dancers!

Free Bootie mix CDs to the first 20 people thru
the door! Did we mention free Bootie mix
CDs? You can't find this sh*t in stores!

Free bootie for your booty! Free panty
giveaways from Frisk Innerwear --
http://www.frisk-me.com
"Bootie" panties!

What the hell else are you gonna do on a
Wednesday night? Get your ass out to
BOOTIE! $5 cover. See you there!

From the immortal words of Amy Doan: Don't
be afraid to dress up!

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Thursday, November 13
Hotel Utah
4th and Bryant- on the corner- they have good
food, so come eat!
8:30 pm
$7.00

JOLIE HOLLAND, JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS and friends,
DAN CANTRELL, AND
MADERA ROAD.

information on the other musicians/bands playing
that night:

JOLIE HOLLAND has a voice that attempts to
transcend the new and encompass the old through
the medium of American music. Her songs
liken stylistically to early jazz, country blues
and old time music. www.jolieholland.com

JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS (The Morlocks, The Heaveners,
The Sorrows) slow, dark, haunting tunes that
evoke visions of desert emptiness, country
torch and border music. Jeff's songwriting
influences are broad in detail and spirit,
ranging from Townes Van Zandt, Joe Ely, Alejandro
Escovedo and other Texan troubadours to the
Velvet Underground, Gavin Bryars and Tom
Verlaine. www.jeffreylucklucas.com

DAN CANTRELL has been playing accordion for the
last 10 years, focusing primarily on Balkan
music. He performs in several groups in
the San Francisco Bay Area, including The Toids,
People's Bizarre, Orkestar Shopov and Rosin
Coven. For the last 8 years Dan Cantrell
has created high quality musical scores that are
rich with acoustic instruments and sound design
for film and video. www.bellowhead.com

MADERA ROAD is old-timey country, sometimes pop,
and occasionally truck-stop rock, comprised of
Marc Dantona (guitar, bass, piano, vocals),
Jason Kocol (guitar, mandolin, vocals), and
Liana Allday (guitar, vocals). Their music is
enough to make you miss your dead dog, make out
with strangers, and stumble home drunk (in no
specific order). To listen to a few songs, go to
http://thissite.kicks-ass.net/fourtwenty/audio

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Joe Magrum of Facility 3 is having a benefit to support his trip to study art in Italy... information below.

What:
GRAZIE! GRAZIE! GRAZIE!
A fun-raising benefit to support Joe Mangrums Trip to
Florence Biennale http://www.florencebiennale.org

When:
Friday November 14th 2003
9-10pm art preview
Silent Art auction -auction of great prizes !!! Raffle's and
more!!!
Music and more 10pm til late
$5-$15 Sliding Scale

Where:
111 Minna Gallery San Francisco between 2nd and
New Montgomery and Mission and Howard streets
http://www.111minnagallery.com

Live installation and Photography by Joe Mangrum
http://www.joemangrum.com
With Supporting guest performances by.........

DJ SOULSALAAM (Future JUJU)
GOOFERMAN http://www.gooferman.com
DJ OTTER http://www.lolabrown.com
Sean Hayes ....ambient folk-hop http://
www.snailbluerecordings.com/
Enzo Garcia (acid cabaret) http://enzogarcia.com
DJ NOME

Tarot by BIG AEION
And special guests......

OR

ART AND ACTION AGAINST AIDS

What : ART AND ACTION AGAINST AIDS
When : Friday, November 14, 6pm-2am
Where : Studio Z: 314 11th Street @ Folsom, SF

21+w/ID Free Admission
Every cent goes to the AIDS Marathon/SF AIDS Foundation

On Friday November 14th, Studio Z will host a free party and art auction to
benefit the AIDS Marathon and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Come by
right after work and stay late into the night.

--Enjoy beer from the Lagunitas Brewery and food provided by Fig & Truffle
Catering and the Asqew Grill

--Check out a long line up of music and performance including:
Miss Kitty and Flash will be your Mistress and Master of Ceremonies.
Dina Amsterdam of Yoga Tree
Break Beat Buddha
DJ TK Disko
FutureTrybe
Intense Elvis and The Teetering Ballet
Tom Jonesing
Acrobatics by the Vau de Vire Society
DJ Vordo
Xeno
and other special guests...

--Bid on a huge collection of art including work by:
Leo Bersamina, Michael Christian, The Crucible, Chris Fischer, Flash, Terry
Hoff, Christian Horan, Doug Inglish, Fred Nocella, Gage Opdenbrouw, Ben
Prince, Yuri Psinakis, $teven Raspa, Laurel Roth, Karl Seifert, Elizabeth
Sher, Natan Solar, Steve Valdez, Scot Velardo, Justin Young, Alex Zecca

--Buy raffle tickets!

"People come in all denominations and are the only currency of any value." -
$teven Ra$pa

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Bonnie's super Scorpio bash on Saturday...

THE SEXADELIC SCORPIO SPACE HAREM!

From: Bonster Productions
Location: The Mercy House 1360 Mission St.
(between 9th & 10th), San Francisco, CA View Map
When: Saturday, November 15, 10:00pm

It's Bonster's Birthday & The 4th Annual Scorpio
Ball!!...
So set your Ray-Guns to Stun and let the blast-
off begin!!! Travel thru time and space to our
futuristic exotic place where Scorpios rule the
mystikal planet and love rules all!!

Prepare to be mind-melted by the hypnotic beats
of...
10p-11:15 DJ King Coffin (Sexotica)
11:15- 1 DJ Cheb i Sabbah (Six Degrees Records)
1-2:45 DJ Lorin (Bassnectar.net)
2:45-4:30 DJ Soulsalaam (Future JuJu)
4:30+ DJ Shawna (Aspara)

Brain-Washing Visuals by:
Doctor Spook

Pulsate to the nebulistic undulations of...
Irisius!
Nanna Candelaria & Troupe Tabu!
Melodishiva!
The Storm Sisters!
Barbarella & The Space Vixens!

Fashion Show by: NOMADIA *Tribal Style*

*Take a ride on the Space Harem Dance Floor!
*Wander the Outer Limits of The Planet
Psychodelia!
*Lose yourself in the Labyrinth of the Scorpio
Love Lair!
*Or Blast off in the Retro-Rocket Bar!!
w/ Rock Star Bartenders & $1-$2 drink donations!

IT'S A BONSTER PARTY, SO GET YOUR BOOTY IN
COSTUME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!

21+ w/ ID!! *SCORPIOS w/ ID get a Birthday
Present!!!*

$15 - In Super Space Harem Costume! Futuristic
Exotica!
$20 - Everyone Else!

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CAST IRON MAIDEN, ROSIN COVEN, and The TOWNE DANDIES AT ODEON -
Friday & Saturday
What do the Pagan Lounge, a one-man cowboy show,
and the world’s heaviest kitchen-appliance band have in common?

Nothing, except the fact that they, and a star-studded cast including Mr.
Lucky, The Fou Fou Ha! Dancing Girls, and David Hasselhoff (maybe) are
appearing this weekend at the infamous Odeon Bar! So join the Menagerie!

TWO NIGHTS!
Fri Nov 14th & Sat Nov 15th
only at The Odeon Bar
3223 Mission at Valencia
(just south of Caesar Chavez)
http://www.odeonbar.com
$10 clams, less if you come dressed as a wild animal.

The doors go a-flyin’ open at 9pm
and then we’re not really responsible
for what madness ensues...

Featuring:

** The World Premiere of CAST IRON MAIDEN (you’ll never look at your kitchen
the same way again)
** The TOWNE DANDIES’ unforgettable western epic “Stay Cowboy 3000”
** NEVER BEFORE SEEN music & theater from ROSIN COVEN, including Broadway
hits, Sesame Street classics, and Czech drinking songs

http://www.rosincoven.com

Oh...and, um...don’t wear your *best* clothes, ok?

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PaulAn Elegant Evening of Music, Magic and Dance
Nathan presents the 5th DARK KABARET
www.darkkabaret.com
Live Circusy Music by Eric McFadden
Starring Daniel Browning Smith The Rubber BOY!
Hosted by Paul Nathan-Mr Fire Magic!
The Lollies- the sultry sirens of Burlesque
Kitten On the Keys- new songs
The Yo Yo King-Yo Yo Yo
Sterling Johnson Bubblesmith
Frank Olivier-Funny with A Twist
Bob Hartman-Puppets
Dancing after the show with DJ Delechaux

All info on the Website!
Mill Valley at the Throckmorton theater Nov 14 and 15
Old Vaudeville Theater!

In San Francisco Nov 21st at the Opulent GREAT American Music Hall!
(Sally Rand used to dance there!)
Tickets Available online
www.darkkabaret.com
415 364-1411

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Upcoming Rite Spot Cafe Shows:

Tonight... New Rite Spot All Stars, featuring Church of Funk's Ezra Gale. 8:30 pm free
Sunday, November 16... Motel Fresno...8:00 pm free
Monday, November 17...Joel Murach, Jeff Stevenson (Granfaloon Bus) and Rachel (Verevein) and Jeff Hicks. 9:00 pm free
Monday, November 24... Mark Growden... 9:00 pm free
Sunday, November 30...Truth or Fiction... words meets music.. a poetry free event. $3.00 5:00 pm

Upcoming November Make Out Room shows of note:

Monday 17
Antisocial Club
Norfolk and Western
Winter Blanket
Jeff Ray (Zmrzlina)
8:30pm $6

Tuesday 18
Joy (Shrimper)
Sean Hayes
Stretch
8:30pm $6

Sunday 23
Oranger
Hello from Waveland
Golden Shoulders
8:30pm $6

Friday 28th
28th Day reunion
featuring Barbara Manning, Cole Marquis and Mike Cloward
6-9:30 early show!

Sunday 30
Ray's Vast Basement
Gris Gris
Diana Darby (Nashville)
8:30pm $6

And Brent- aka King Coffin spins at the Make Out Room on Fridays.

Upcoming Hemlock Tavern shows:

November 22
Playing in Fog
Presents
Beam
Willow Willow
10pm $6

Cafe Du Nord:

Monday, November 24
OUR LADY OF THE HIGHWAY
CHRISTIAN KIEFER
THE PUFFIN BILLIES
Show: 9:30 PM
Door: $5.00
Ages: 21+

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts across all performance disciplines and incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous, starkly beautiful, supremely talented and horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct.

For more information contact: anniesouth@earthlink.net

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Our beloved President Bush's stunning accomplishments...

annie — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:14:02 GMT

President Bush's Record:

just so you know:

"I attacked and took over 2 countries.

"I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US
Treasury.

"I shattered the record for the biggest annual
deficit in history (not easy!).

"I set an economic record for the most personal
bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

"I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

"I am the first president in decades to execute a
federal prisoner.

"In my first year in office I set the all-time
record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).

"After taking the entire month of August off for
vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.

"I set the record for most campaign fund raising
trips by any president in US history.

"In my first two years in office over 2 million
Americans lost their jobs.

"I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work
Americans than any other president in US history.

"I set the all-time record for most real estate
foreclosures in a 12-month period.

"I appointed more convicted criminals to
administration positions than any president in US history.

"I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president, since the advent of TV.

"I signed more laws and executive orders amending
the Constitution than any other US president in history.

"I presided over the biggest energy crises in US
history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

"I cut health care benefits for war veterans.

"I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

"I dissolved more international treaties than any
president in US history.

"I've made my presidency the most secretive and
unaccountable of any in US history.

"Members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in US history. (The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.)

"I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.

"I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.

"I am the first president in US history to order a US attack AND military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community.

"I have created the largest government department
bureaucracy in the history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security"(only
one letter away from BS).

"I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I did it!!).

"I am the first president in US history to compel
the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.

"I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.

"I removed more checks and balances, and have the
least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

"I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. I withdrew from the World Court of Law.

"I refused to allow inspectors access to US
prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

"I am the first president in US history to refuse
United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.

"I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

"The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign,
who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

"I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

"I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

"I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

"I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

"I am the first US president in history to have a
majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggestthreat to world peace and stability.

"I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

"I set the all-time record for the number of
administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.

"I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties
for Americans than any other president in US history.

"I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

"RECORDS AND REFERENCES: I have at least one
conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).

"I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war.

"I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any
questions about drug use.
(wink,wink)

"All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

"All records of any SEC investigations into my
insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

"All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

"Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

With Love,
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House, Washington, DC
Note: this information should be useful to voters in the 2004 election. Circulate to as many citizens you think would be helped to be reminded about this record

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Acid Cab #3

annie — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:16:03 GMT

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE... Matt Gonzales for mayor!

www.smartvoter.org

interesting endorsement blog on the local election

http://www.granick.com/blog/11.4.slate.htm

also, the tenants union recommendations:

www.sftu.org/tuendorsements03.htm

Dr. Abacus - yes *that* Zappa-like cartoon jazz, Rosin Coven spin off band is playing at the Rite Spot tonight, sometime shortly after 9 pm for free. The Rite Spot is having a $2.00 all beer bottles special if you come with your voting ticket stub. That's cheap! Come see the boys play and hang with Beth and Annie at Ye Olde Rite Spot.

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In Acid Cabaret news, we entered the freshly re-vamped Episode One into the SXSW film festival. By the way, the deadline for submissions are VERY close as in this Friday. www.sxsw.com. Cross your fingers for us... wouldn't that be a hoot!? Also, there are talks of a NYE Acid Cabaret but we are looking for a good and big space to use...since the beloved Facility 3 didn't end up making it. Any ideas?

We also still don't have an Acid Cabaret website, so if anyone is up to the task to help here... we'd love the help with something kooky and functional, mostly in order to have much needed web presence, but also mostly to promote the musicians, artists, film makers, events and anyone and thing else that needs promoting and has anything remotely to do with The Acid Cabaret.

Also, Joe from Facility 3 is looking for a space for a fundraiser on November 14 (I think) email joefac3@yahoo.com if you know of anything to help this man out.

There is a tribe set up on www.tribe.net for the Acid Cabaret. Please come and join and discuss and promote and fuck things up. Look for me under my first and last name.

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from the squid list...this looks GOOD. I will be looking for a live-work space come February... keep your eyes/ears open for me! thanks- annie See ya there!

Nov. 7th, Live/Work benefit @ SOMARTS

We are trying to pave the way for legal Live/Work for real artists.
We’ve put together a benefit show to raise awareness, money and
support.

Save the date! November 7th Live/ Work Benefit @ SOMARTS.
Not only will this be the best collection of performers from the bay
and beyond but The Extra Action Marching Band will be giving a sneak
preview of their Black Sabbath set with Extreme Elvis as Ozzy and the
flag team will be bringing the rarely scene and highly sought after –
Mobile Ghetto $trip Club.

You can also expect that the Seemen will be up to no good in the side
yard flaunting their “contribution” to the art world while the pirate
cat radio DJs play music you actually want to listen to, Daniel
Browning Smith (the Rubberboy) will do disgusting things with his body,
David Cappuro (the Yo Yo pro) will rock, Cookie Mongoloid will metal,
Black and Blue Burlesque will be a nice break from all of this boy
shit, the Bike Rodeo will continue to amaze the masses because they are not
severely injured or dead yet, and Kitten on the keys will make you feel
clean and innocent all over again.

All this and much more... many performers will grace the stage
impromptu to show support and crank the vibe. It has been a bit of a
tug of war to get the permits to legally occupy our space, and this
show will help alot! Thanks to Anchor brewry, Fernett Branca, Laughing
Squid, SOMARTS, the Coalition for Jobs, Arts and housing and all the
performers that are playing in kind!!! Thank you!!!

WARNING: Rockstar Bartending with Flash and friends

WHAT: Live/Work benefit
WHERE: Somarts 934 Brannan
WHEN: Friday Nov. 7th 9:00-2:00
How Much: $10-$20

FEATURING:

SF Cyclecide Bike Rodeo
http://www.cyclecide.com

SEEMEN
http://www.seemen.org

Extreme Elvis
http://www.extremeelvis.com

Cookie Mongoloid
http://www.wearemongoloid.com/cookie/

Kitten on the Keys
http://www.suzanneramsey.net

Black and Blue Burlesque

Pirate Cat Radio DJ's (87.9)
http://www.piratecatradio.com

The Extra Action Marching Band + The Mobile Ghetto Strip Club
http://www.extra-action.com

David Cappuro (The Yo-Yo Pro)

Daniel Browning Smith (The Rubberboy)
http://www.therubberboy.com

Rockstar Bartending with Flash and friends

hosted by Chicken John
http://www.dammit.org

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And, if you haven't been to *THE* Scorpio Party then you haven't lived. Bonnie is known for throwing the best, most outrageous, wild, ass kicking parties ever. Don't miss this one! Be warned!

The Sexadelic Scorpio Space Harem!

From: Bonster Productions
Location: The Mercy House 1360 Mission St. (between 9th & 10th), San Francisco, CA View Map
When: Saturday, November 15, 10:00pm

It's Bonster's Birthday & The 4th Annual Scorpio Ball!!...

So set your Ray-Guns to Stun and let the blast-off begin!!! Travel thru time and space to our futuristic exotic place where Scorpios rule the mystikal planet and love rules all!!

Prepare to be mind-melted by the hypnotic beats of...
10p-11:15 DJ King Coffin (Sexotica)
11:15- 1 DJ Cheb i Sabbah (Six Degrees Records)
1-2:45 DJ Lorin (Bassnectar.net)
2:45-4:30 DJ Soulsalaam (Future JuJu)
4:30+ DJ Shawna (Aspara)

Brain-Washing Visuals by:
Doctor Spook

Pulsate to the nebulistic undulations of...
Irisius!
Nanna Candelaria & Troupe Tabu!
Melodishiva!
The Storm Sisters!
Barbarella & The Space Vixens!

Fashion Show by: NOMADIA *Tribal Style*

*Take a ride on the Space Harem Dance Floor!
*Wander the Outer Limits of The Planet Psychodelia!
*Lose yourself in the Labyrinth of the Scorpio Love Lair!
*Or Blast off in the Retro-Rocket Bar!!
w/ Rock Star Bartenders & $1-$2 drink donations!

IT'S A BONSTER PARTY, SO GET YOUR BOOTY IN COSTUME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

21+ w/ ID!! *SCORPIOS w/ ID get a Birthday Present!!!*

$15 - In Super Space Harem Costume! Futuristic Exotica!
$20 - Everyone Else!

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To view event flyer and to join Bonster Productions' mailing list for future events please visit : www.bonsterproductions.com (up 11/1/03)

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support your local musicians

calendars:

www.ritespotcafe.net
www.hemlocktavern.com
www.makeoutroom.com
www.cafedunord.com

and local music/musician celebrities djing nightly at the casanova lounge! DJ Kenball next Monday, November 10!

xo annie

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The Acid Cabaret is the notorious and deep underground, pro/am, survival of the fittest on screen mayhem dedicated to freedom of speech and the politically incorrect. Hosted by the mercurial Partyball, a one-man lysergic/Jack Daniels collision fiasco, The Acid Cabaret, cuts across all performance disciplines and incorporates elements of the sublime, ridiculous, starkly beautiful, supremely talented and horrifically abject.

The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct.

For more information contact: anniesouth@earthlink.net

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Free music at the Rite Spot Cafe...

annie — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:25:28 GMT

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Monday, November 3... PROJECT: PIMENTO... 9:00 pm free

PROJECT: PIMENTO is a San Francisco-based lounge band coming at you live with a potent cocktail of hypnotic sounds from the theremin mixed with swanky lounge tunes from the 40s, 50, and 60s and played in a space-age pop style with hints of jazz, swing and bossa nova sprinkled on top.

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Tuesday, November 4...DR ABACUS...9:00 pm free

Election Party with DR. ABACUS. $2.00 bottled beer all night long... get out and VOTE.

DR ABACUS (Rosin Coven side project) is puttin' it down with what we lovingly call cartoon jazz, Zappa jazz or just crazy jazz. Unleashing an unabashedly quirky, flamboyant and caffeinated weird Jazz composite with enough spunk to keep your nervous twitchin' up to speed, this group, armed with their 64-count jumbo box of half-eaten crayons, is refusing to stay in the lines and keep the glue bottles out of their noses.

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Wednesday, November 5...DOWN NOT OUT...9:30 pm free

DOWN NOT OUT founded by San Francisco favorites Andrew Freeman and Eric Kurtzrock, is an Americana/Roots band performing original and cover music. Featuring Brad Russell on upright bass (Rick Derringer, Kevin Russell, Pat Travers, Jeff Watson), Down, Not Out is an acoustic powerhouse, combining elements of Bluegrass, Folk, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Country, and Pop.

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Thursday, November 6...THE FRISKY FROLICS...9:30 pm free

From the Panic of 1907 to the Great Depression, an economically shattered populace found comfort in the light, cheerful tunes of Tin Pan Alley. The jury's still out on the current economy, but there's no doubt that THE FRISKY FROLICS have mastered a full repertoire of those cheerful tunes – just in case. (SFBG Best of the Bay 2001)

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Friday, November 7...CONSCIOUS CONTACT...9:30 pm free

jazz

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Saturday, November 8... MAS QUE NADA...9:30 pm free

MAS QUE NADA performs an exciting blend of flamenco and Afro-Cuban music. Jeannie Mckenzie on violin, Daniel Fabricant-bass, Chloe Scott-flute, Darren Morgan- guitar, Jake Lawlor- percussion, Jesse Wolf - cello.

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Sunday, November 9...J THACKRAY'S SINGER/SONGWRITER NIGHT. 7:30 pm free

Garth Steel Klippert
The Lowdowns
Stara Nova Acoustic
Jason Kleinberg

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Monday, November 10...OCTOMUTT (Ashley Adams and Ted Savarese from Drizzoletto) with special guests.

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VOTE on Tuesday.

SUPPORT local music go see shows and buy CD's from local bands

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CHECK OUT THE FRESH HOME BAKED PIES AT THE RITE SPOT !!!

OUR NEW WEBSITE IS AT WWW.RITESPOTCAFE.NET
2099 folsom street san francisco 94110. For booking please send demo/press kit

Happy Hour is M-TH 4-7, F 2-7
2.75 call drinks, 2.00 well drinks, 2.50 drafts
and bottles and 2.00 house wine

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I thought...

annie — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:26:51 GMT

some of the people that found The Acid Cabaret Tribe interesting might like this...

the look on the baby's face...

http://www.cyberxxxhost.com/users/wafw/hun5/index.html

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Acid Cabaret Newsletter #2

annie — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:51:36 GMT

Friday, Oct 17th

Demolition Doll Rods
Resineators
Husbands

10pm, $6

The Doll Rods are a one-band movement, a lifestyle high-colonic, an Rn'B T&A circus garnering legions of new fans wherever they go. They do happen to make a few people pretty fucking uncomfortable just by being so damn comfortable with themselves, but if that's the case, just relax and let them wildly diddle your not-so secret spot. If you wanna shake your ass, well, just com on! www.intheredrecords.com

David Nudelman (3 Stoned Men, The Wild Breed) and Anthony Bedard (Icky Boyfriends, The Leather Uppers) have augmented their telepathic, two-man collision drill with Aaron Nudelman (Sunless Day) and Andy Oglesby (The Roofies) to forge this collection of 10 flypaper-melodic, primal-concussive, battered and deep-fried cans of corn. www.Midheaven.com

Risen from the ashes of locals No Knife, the Vanishing, and the Lies, S.F.-based trio the Husbands bash it out in the manner of such simpatico outfits as the Gories, the Mooney Suzuki, and the Gore-Gore Girls. Which means you can count on brief, brash, and basic chunks of rock 'n' roll fury, churned out with a minimum of subtlety (and chords). Other perks to look forward to include a heavy reliance on the time-honored pounding/shuffling Bo Diddley beat (the band covers his autoerotic "Cadillac" here) and raspy, near-hoarse vocals declaiming the joys and frustrations of carnality. www.sfweekly.com

http://www.midheaven.com/artists/resineators.html
http://www.intheredrecords.com/pages/doll%20rods.html
www.thehusbands.net

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Sep 19 - Oct 19 Thursdays - Sundays (no show 10/3)
Tickets $10 in advance $15 at the door. Students $8 w/ id.
www.spanganga.com
IN IT'S LAST FEW NIGHTS... YOU MUST SEE THIS, IT'S REALLY FUCKING AWESOME!

Yuri Lane's "From Tel Aviv to Ramallah"

Human Beatbox and Vocal Magician Yuri Lane returns to San Francisco with From Tel Aviv to Ramallah'', a hip-hop travelogue of peace. ``From Tel Aviv to Ramallah'' is part hip-hop performance part street-wise documentary. Lane weaves a vox-pop tapestry of Palestinian & Israeli voices into a mosaic of the Middle East against a backdrop of muezzin calls and Tel Aviv traffic. The lives of Khalid and Amir progress with a Hip-Hop beat and intersect at a West Bank checkpoint.

In 1999, Yuri Lane traveled from Tel Aviv to Ramallah by bus, taxi and foot to visit friends on both sides of the Green Line. On his return from Ramallah, Yuri was caught in a riot that foreshadowed the current Intifada. He also discovered the cultural divide between Israelis and Palestinians as well as the numerous commonalities of the two cultures.

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Bonfire Madigan, the highly original west coast avant pop cello ensemble,
touring the west coast with Rasputina, the finest in east coast goth rock cello
musings. Then B.Mad sets out on a national tour in support of their first live
album, Plays for Change, meeting up for some dates with SF's own, The Quails.
Spread the word, come out and support independent artists!

Bonfire Madigan
10/17-10/22 supporting Rasputina
10/27-11/3 & 11/16-11/20 with The Quails
see http://www.bonfiremadigan.com for full itinerary

Fri 10/17 Portland, OR Dante's
Sat 10/18 Seattle, WA Graceland
Tue 10/21 San Francisco, CA Slims
Weds 10/22 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour

"Both by herself, and with the rotating ensemble of superior musicians
collectively identified as 'Bonfire Madigan', I've seen her convert neophytes into
true believers. It seems almost surreal that so much musical might can emanate
from such a diminutive frame. My conjecture was that she must be constructed
entirely of talent. The pure." -- Brandon Lieberman "Drinking From Puddles"
KBOO-FM Portland, Oregon

"While surface comparisons abound, Bonfire Madigan is truly in a league of
their own. Infusing a perfect meld of poetry and deliberate rawness, blending
some of the finest musicianship to ever come out of Kill Rock Stars and the
gorgeous and haunting lyrics of a master." -- Pop Matters

http://www.bonfiremadigan.com
http://www.geocities.com/bwellbmad/
http://bmadarmy.ethersick.org/
http://www.rasputina.com
http://www.thequails.com

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Bride of Ozzy's Children of the Grave video
staring, featuring and cameo=ing many of our
lovely west coast friends

It's a KICKASS video that darling Rodney Ascher
directed and more, that the crazy Kathy Jo
Lefreniere made props for including 6 devil
babies and many, many friends and Acid
Cabareters helped make happen. Get out and
support! Details below.

Sunday, October 19...the New York Underground
Film Festivals' music multimedia extravaganza
Audio/Visual will screen Bride of Ozzy's
Children of the Grave music video.

Forwarded from Rodney Ascher:

"If you haven't seen it this'll be a rare
opportunity to witness the heavy metals horrors
of demonic hellspawn, Satanic bargains, failed
psycho killers, and a mother's love on a
biggish screen surrounded by Brooklyn hipsters.
They'll also be some other videos for some other
bands some of you may have heard of if you're
big nerds.

More info at
http://www.nyuff.com/av/musicvideo.html

All videos are finalists for the Audio/Visual
Music Video Competition. Sponsored by the makers
of Tylenol ®

*Never before seen!

The Shins
The Past and Pending
Dir. Matt McCormick & Gregory Brown
Sub Pop Records

Black Dice *
"Untitled" from Number 3
Dir. Matt Luem
Troubleman

Diverse Featuring Lyrics Born + RJD2 *
Explosive
Dir. Seven-3.6 and Chris Eichenseer
Chocolate Industries

The Exelar *
Witness Relocation Program
Dir. Joe Quinn

Stairway at St. Paul's
Jeroen Offerman
[Performance of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to
Heaven]

The Soft Pink Truth *
Promofunk
Dir. Ryan Junell
Soundslike

The Pattern
Fragile Awareness
Dir. Shepard Fairey
Lookout! Records

Rolling Stones/ Fatboy Slim *
Sympathy For the Devil- Fatboy Slim Remix
Dir. Mick Gouchanour
ABKO Music & Records, Inc.

Kid 606
The Illness
Dir. Joel Trussell
Tigerbeat6

Red Smoke
Take It On The Run
Dir. Lew Baldwin
Electric Beat

Lightning Bolt *
Nugglies
Dir. Dear Raindrop
Load Records/ Pick a Winner DVD

Neon Hunk *
Dracula Mountain
Dir. Dear Raindrop
Load Records/ Pick a Winner DVD

Palace Music
Come In
Dir. Dianne Bellino
Drag City

Deerhoof
Cooper
Dir. Gregory Brunkalla
Kill Rock Stars

Sigur Ros
Untitled
Dir. Floria Sigismondi
Fat Cat Records

Kill Me Tomorrow *
Flesh Siren
Dir. E-Rock
Gold Standard Labs

Bride of Ozzy *
Children of the Grave
Dir. Rodney S. Ascher

Ugly Cassanova
Things I Don't Remember
Dir. Yuri A
Sub Pop Records

Space Machine
Melter 2, sounds from the album "Cosmos from
Diode Ladder Filter"
Dir. Takeshi Murata

Pixeltan
My Minute Beats your year
Dir. DevIn Flynn
Load Records/ Pick A Winner DVD

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Giant Value, Ray's Vast Basement, Garth Steel Klippert
Bottom of the Hill
Wednesday, October 22
9:30 pm $7.00

"Well worth it Local trio Giant Value churns out buoyant, countryish pop that practically forces you to smile. It's hard enough to resist the pretty melodies and whimsical lyrics ("Fishes don't have feelings; that's the difference between them and us") that define the group's recent self-released album On the Move avec Giant Value" www.giantvalue.net

"Do yourself a favor and check out these Northern Californians in the living room-like confines of Victorian's. Ray's Vast Basement is a loose collective which crafts music one might find residing on the underside of a rock, skewing folk instrumentation and twisting narratives into something much more creepy, and ultimately, more beguiling. Their last record, On The Banks of Time, was a junk-shop collection that approached the growl of Tom Waits, the stomp of Calexico, and similar ethnomusicologists, a dusty attic find of the finest variety. They rarely, if ever, stray this far from their Bay Area haunts; a rare chance to absorb one of the finest purveyors in the sea of unheard music." Columbus, Ohio Dispatch Live Show Review www.raysvastbasement.com

www.garthsteelklippert.com

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rosin coven HALLOWEEN NIGHT AT CAFÉ DU NORD!
An elegantly horrifying netherworld not to be missed...
featuring The Sixth Annual Roasting of The Halloweenie
and unpredictable performances including
* Ghoulishly charming songs & tales by Allison Lovejoy
* LOOP!STATION (http://www.eccentricdesign.org/LOOP.html)
* Mephistopheles’ Box Of Horror
* Mischievous antics by Puppets & Pie
* Subterranean atmosphere by Kendelabra Productions
2170 Market at Sanchez, SF
Tickets $10 adv/$12 door – adv tix at http://www.cafedunord.com

http://www.rosincoven.com

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The Sixth Episode of
THE HAUNTED BARN presents
A SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTMARE

Three big nights! Halloween Weekend!
Thursday, Friday, October 30, 31 and
Saturday, November 1, 2003!

Witness what Hitchcock, Chinatown and a Barbary brothell have in common.
Performances by The Pine Box Boys and Esmerelda Strange
Spook side show - The Chasm of Spasms

Enjoy an old timey saloon and bands as you wait for your
transfer for the only HAUNTED BARN in San Francisco.

Find your way to Hunter's Point.
Cesar Chavez to 3rd Street, East on Evans, continue to the dead end.
Park on Innes, walk down the hill at the headless horse.

For more info call 415-285-8103
or visit WWW.THEHAUNTEDBARN.COM

ADULTS ONLY! Doors @ 9 pm-2 am Costumes Encouraged!

DON'T BE LATE FOR THE BUS!

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Future Juju presents:

THE 3RD ANNUAL HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE & BENEFIT
Wednesday, OCTOBER 29th, 2003

Hosted by: Dj *SOULSALAAM*
W/ special guests:

*APHRODESIA* (Super Afro Beat from SF)
http://www.aphrodesia.org

*FUTURE JUJU* (Drum & Dance)
Directed by: Liza Matlack featuring
Karamba Dioubate (Guinee, West Africa)

And a special set from SOULSALAAM featuring
Jah Thunder Wisdom (Ghana, West Africa)

A portion of the proceeds help to support FJ Drum &
Dance to realise their vision of creating a DVD from
this performance. This DVD will be presented to
education organizations and event coordinators who
create programs and workshops that support the arts
for the advancement of the youth.

This harmonic co-operative performance troupe is
dedicated to uplifting humanity, cultivating social,
racial and ethnic awareness and educating the youth.
Many of its members are teachers, parents, artists and
people who are dedicated to empowering both our global
and local communities.

@ Elbo Room - 647 Valencia (near 17th)
$7-$100 sliding scale
http://www.elbo.com

WARNING!: This super sexy freaky high energy tribal
costume party so come as your favorite fetish or alter
ego!!!!

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THE ACID CABARET is the notorious and deep underground San Francisco/Bay Area based pro/am, survival of the fittest, open-mic performance event. It is an interactive performance arena dedicated to providing a place where freedom of expression and speech are both welcomed and encouraged. The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct. For more information contact: anniesouth@earthlink.net

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new tribe: KUSF

Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:44:42 GMT

just do it. c'mon...

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Is this thing on?

annie — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:01:14 GMT

Go to Bands Against Bush on Saturday!
October 11th, 2003 - Bands Against Bush - International Day of Action
Potrero Del Sol Park (East side of Potrero Ave., San Francisco just
South of 25th St.)
http://home.earthlink.net/~bandsagainstbushbayarea/potreromap.gif

Sagan & friends (6:30-7)
Boyjazz (5:45-6)
Boyskout (5-5:30)
Vaz (4:20-4:50)
Year Future (3:40-4:10)
Restiform Bodies (3-3:30)
24K Gold (2:15-2:40)
Wobbly (1:40-2)
Fields of Gaffney (1:00-1:30)
Largesse (12:15-12:45) and much, much more.
Noon - 7PM

http://blevin.lsr1.com/birds/nav.php
http://www.boyjazz.com/
http://www.boyskout.com/
http://www.thevaz.com/
http://www.goldstandardlabs.com/year_future/yearfuture.html
http://www.restiformbodies.com/
http://detritus.net/wobbly/
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/ericgaffney/

There will be voter registration, vote to impeach stuff, as well as
tabling by all sorts of fun things,bring the kids, bring the
grandparents, good times for all.

http://www.bandsagainstbushbayarea.org/ or http://www.babba.org
http://www.bandsagainstbush.com/

Oct 11th is Bands Against Bush's first day of
International Action!

there are shows/events happening in:

Denton, Tx
Washington, DC
Boston, MA
Chicago, Il
Detroit, Mi
San Francisco, CA
Charlottesville, VA
Walla Walla, WA
New Orleans, LA
Tucson, AZ
New York City
Olympia, WA
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Los Angeles, CA
Dublin, Ireland
and
Limerick, Ireland

and many others.

chapters have formed/are forming all over the world.
-C.

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acid cabaret newsletter from mail list

annie — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:32:54 GMT

If you want to be on this list... mail me! I will be posting it here also so probably no need but if you want the pretty colors and fonts that you don't get here... feel free.

xo annie

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I guess this election just further imposes that San Francisco is a micro-climate and that we need to break off from the state and possibly the country. In the highest voter turn out, in a predominantly democratic state how could this happen? According to the Chronicle this am...1 million absentee ballots turned in to polling places on election day have yet to be counted but according to the same paper, The Terminator is our new governor. His response, "Can you believe this? Only in America." A resounding FUCK you to us.

The fact that Schwarzenegger might receive only a fraction of the votes Davis received during the 2002 election, and still be declared the winner pisses me off. This recall is a great scam and a great coup for republicans in our state.

Splitting the vote is not the answer, regardless of the ideal and HOPEFULLY we can learn something from this election as our own mayoral election nears.

ANYWAY...

Many of you've asked about the rumors of a possible ASS CAB siting on Halloween this year at the Casanova. There were talks of such a thing, but we decided to wait a bit longer and find a bigger venue so all you lovely freaks could get in and enjoy the show! Soon, soon... we promise!

On the ACTV front...we just got back a couple of the Episode 2 dubs and notice there are a few audio and visual drop outs. This means Anthony, Annie and Stephen get to bunker down and watch the master tapes and figure out what to do and how to do it. The march continues on to complete the two episode DVD and we are talking about entering it into a film festival or two. More info as we have it.

In the meanwhile, here are some more events you might enjoy! Don't forget the Burning Man Decompression Party all day Sunday over on Indiana St. A fucking good time AND it's all day. See ya there.

xo annie

ps... you want a laugh? try this link. I think it's funny... or maybe I am actually a junior high school boy trapped in the body of a hoochie mama.

http://www.tenthplanet.net/Soren/piercing01.html

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BOOTIE -- the first ALL-bootleg/mash-up club in
the U.S. -- is back this coming WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 8! DJs ADRIAN & the MYSTERIOUS D will
be spinning only the best in pirated, illegal
mash-ups, bootlegs, and bastard pop. Two songs,
totally mashed-up into one new, completely
different track!

Here are all the details:

BOOTIE
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8
CHERRY BAR & LOUNGE, 917 Folsom at 5th, San
Francisco
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DJs ADRIAN & the MYSTERIOUS D
with guest DJs
DIGATRON -- from Sacramento
MATTY C -- spinning rock 'n' roll mash-ups early
in the evening
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performances by:
PRINCESS KENNEDY - 12 midnight
RENTTECCA - 11:30 PM
PATTY O'FURNITURE - 10:30 PM
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FREE ten-track Bootie mix CD to the first 20
people through the door!
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Fashion show by SCARLET'S MISFIT TOYS at 11 PM
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Hot go-go dancers: Marcy Meow, Pirate Redbits,
and Sexy Steven!

Pool Table!

Mashed-up drink specials: $2 Kami-Cosmo shots, $3
Vodka Slurpees
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9 PM - 2 AM, $5 cover
For more info: http://www.blue-period.com/bootie

flyer and mash-up info:
http://www.blue-period.com/bootie

Remember, BOOTIE happens the second Wednesday of
every month.

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TURN ME ON DEADMAN invites you to celebrate their
forthcoming CD at a special "CD Preview Party"!!
(this is Chris Lyman and Fancy Feasts new band)

Two Live Sets, Complimentary Champagne Toast and
a Fabulous Intermission Show featuring DJ Donovan
and The Divine Ruby Sparks!

Be one of the first 25 guests and score a free
pre-release copy of the Smashing new TURN ME ON
DEADMAN CD!

The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St @ Post
Saturday, October 11th
Dress to kill! ;)

For more information, check out:
www.mandeadonmeturn.com

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MUSICIANS SUPPORTING MATT GONZALEZ FOR MAYOR

Just the Facts:

The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street
Sunday, October 12 Doors @ 8; Show @ 9
$10-20 sliding scale

Connie Champagne
Mark Eitzel
Paula Frazer
Jolie Holland
Jessie DeNatale
Felix Costanza
Onelinedrawing
Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen
Special Guests...

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Venue 9
252 9th St
Oct 18 - Burlesque Babes
Kitten on the Keys
Big Burlesques (sexy big girls - yeah!),
Burles-eque (they are soo cute) and Karen
Goldenstein (Venue 9's personnel stripper
beauty) Plus: an after party with the Killian
Band (we love them) playing.

Shows start at 8PM - $10 - unless you love
venue 9 and want to give more.

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TITLE: Yes on L's Kickoff Gala! Featuring Barbara Ehrenreich, Will Durst, Michael Parenti, and Joan Holden's adaptation of "Nickel and Dimed"

Join the Yes on L campaign's party THIS FRIDAY night! Its going to be *the* political event of the season! Hobnob with political stars, literary figures, firebreathers, contortionists, and unionizers, all of whom support YES ON L!

TO BUY TICKETS -

ONLINE: WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.sfminimumwage.org/events.htm

MAILING ADDRESS: "6.75 is Not Enough" - 742 14th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114.

TICKET RSVP HOTLINE: (415) 395-9050

DATE AND TIME: Friday, October 10th, 6.30pm reception, 8pm play

VENUE NAME: Brava Theatre, http://www.brava.org

STREET ADDRESS: 2789 24th Street (at York), San Francisco, Ca, 94110, PARKING: At SF General at 23rd and San Bruno

MEDIA HOTLINE: Ronald Colthirst, Campaign Director, (415) 255-9494

ADMISSION COSTS:
$50 - mezz, play only
$100 and up VIP reception featuring Durst, Ehrenreich, and Parenti, and play

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/business/yourmoney/28eview.html

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Giant Value
Ray's Vast Basement
Top Brown
Bottom of the Hill
Wed, October 22
9 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30)
$7

"Giant Value has spent the last two years building up a following, self-releasing an EP and a full-length, and are currently working on another...Oddball songwriting about e-bay addiction and the insensitivity of fish ends up being the perfect foil to its peppy, sophisticated sound - as if Cibo Matto meets Nino Rota, with a dash of Henry Mancini. It's the best kind of quirkiness... " - Bill Heehan, Bay Area Buzz, volume 2, issue no. 1, july/august 2003

"The songs unfold slowly, in a rambling, unhurried style. Bernson's (Ray's Vast Basement) voice, dusky and warm, mahogany in color, sandpapery in texture, was just made for telling stories. The music is almost ridiculously lush, beautiful dusty arrangements full of violins, harmonica, plucked guitar, soprano and tenor sax, trumpet, slide guitar, bongos, and atmospheric textures that feature elements of heartland rock, folk and country..." Epitonic.com

Top Brown is the new band name for the band that used to play under the name Garth Steel Klippert. Garth is an amazing and funny performer, his band is great and he's worth keeping an eye out for.

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rosin coven HALLOWEEN NIGHT AT CAFÉ DU NORD!
An elegantly horrifying netherworld not to be missed...
featuring The Sixth Annual Roasting of The Halloweenie
and unpredictable performances including
* Ghoulishly charming songs & tales by Allison Lovejoy
* LOOP!STATION (http://www.eccentricdesign.org/LOOP.html)
* Mephistopheles’ Box Of Horror
* Mischievous antics by Puppets & Pie
* Subterranean atmosphere by Kendelabra Productions
2170 Market at Sanchez, SF
Tickets $10 adv/$12 door – adv tix at http://www.cafedunord.com

http://www.rosincoven.com

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Sep 19 - Oct 19 Thursdays - Sundays (no show 10/3)
Tickets $10 in advance $15 at the door. Students $8 w/ id.
www.spanganga.com

Yuri Lane's "From Tel Aviv to Ramallah"

Human Beatbox and Vocal Magician Yuri Lane returns to San Francisco with From Tel Aviv to Ramallah'', a hip-hop travelogue of peace. ``From Tel Aviv to Ramallah'' is part hip-hop performance part street-wise documentary. Lane weaves a vox-pop tapestry of Palestinian & Israeli voices into a mosaic of the Middle East against a backdrop of muezzin calls and Tel Aviv traffic. The lives of Khalid and Amir progress with a Hip-Hop beat and intersect at a West Bank checkpoint.

In 1999, Yuri Lane traveled from Tel Aviv to Ramallah by bus, taxi and foot to visit friends on both sides of the Green Line. On his return from Ramallah, Yuri was caught in a riot that foreshadowed the current Intifada. He also discovered the cultural divide between Israelis and Palestinians as well as the numerous commonalities of the two cultures.

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Acid Cabaret performers performing around the city:

Rite Spot Cafe:
The Buffy and Winky Show, First Tuesday of the month
Kitten on the Keys, Second Tuesday of the month
Project Pimento, First Monday of the month
Mark Growden, Last Monday of the month
The New Rite Spot All Stars- 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month
Sean Hayes, Monday October 13
Michael McIntosh, Friday October 17
Truth of Fiction, Sunday October 26 featuring Bambi Lake and three short fiction writers, a poetry free event.

The Hemlock Tavern
October 11 Turn Me On Dead Man
10pm $5

October 23
The Go Going Gone Girls
The Bippies
10pm $5

Okay, I admit the next two shows are not Acid Cabaret performers but if you like crazy, twisted, perverted and/or dark stuff... these I recommend!

October 29
The Ricky & Dell Show
Lord Nasty & the Seekers of Perversion
10pm $5

October 31
Nate Denver's Neck
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
10pm $6

November 5
Tamsen Fynn
10pm $5

MakeOut Room
Thursday October 16
Aphrodesia
P.A.S
8:30pm $6

Tuesday October 21
Jolie Holland
Scott Biram (Tx)
The Darklings
8:30pm $6

I probably missed someone somewhere... so please forgive if I did.

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THE ACID CABARET is the notorious and deep underground San Francisco/Bay Area based pro/am, survival of the fittest, open-mic performance event. It is an interactive performance arena dedicated to providing a place where freedom of expression and speech are both welcomed and encouraged. The Acid Cabaret disclaimer states in plain and intelligible writing that this type of event is probably not for the faint at heart or the politically correct. For more information contact: anniesouth@earthlink.net

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zom

annie — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:38:06 GMT

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Lord of the Cock Rings

annie — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:25:30 GMT

http://www.tenthplanet.net/Soren/piercing01.html

laughing my ass off!

annie

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Welcome

annie — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 04:42:00 GMT

Acid Cabaret makes it's way here to Tribe.net... we are a bit stagnant with actual Acid Cabaret events lately while we try to finish up the 2 episode DVD and enter it into SXSW film festival. I do, however post events for people who are involved with us and shit you should know about and support that is fun to know about and support. Wild, dirty, fun, crazy, perverted, music/art/parties/events that we will be at or should be at.

Thanks for the interest and support!

annie

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