Actually Huizenga and Hazel Hill team up to give you sexy golden girl vampire bowie nightmares this Halloween! Don’t question, just watch!

I was looking for an appropriate Golden Girls quote for this post, but I couldn’t really find one. This one made me laugh:
Blanche: You know what the worst part about getting older is?
Dorothy: Your face, Rose’s hands?

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Liza Thorn, local spectacle and member of Cobain in a Coma on West Add Radio, hipster thrash band So So Many White White Tigers, failed rap project No Condom Whatever!, and the kind of defunct Curls (actually, they’re now Girls and don’t feature Liza at all and have a great new song Myles posted about earlier), is also in a band called Wildflowerz whom I thought were defunct but apparently have a new song up. Its called “Human Eye” and its pretty alright. Its like SSMWWT, but with, uh, just a wee bit of melody thrown in. Really, some of you might not even notice the melody, but I do and I like it. I was way into that other song “steal”, so much so that I put it on a World Famous in San Francisco mix cd I made (if you want a copy myspace us! or email w o r l d f a m o u s i n s f (a t) g m a i l (d o t) c o m)

Also, they have a show on November 9th at “The Egg”. Where is that? What is that? Man, I don’t know anything!

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We love the The Clap. We love months when there there are two nights of the clap even more. But this month is special as there are not one, not two, but THREE nights of the clap. Plus a SECRET performance! I love secrets! I’m just going to repost from myspace:

TUESDAY OCTOBER 30
DARK NIGHT BEFORE ALL HALLOWS EVE PARTY

I know you friends here in S.F. are planning on attending the THE CLAP! Halloween Party the following night Wednesday, w/ musical guest Jenny Hoyston’s PARADISE ISLAND. But come to this anyway. Its FREE!! I’ve selected the best most danceable ghoulish garage, glitter & gum from my 45 collection. AND will be joined by special guest deejay Dollocaust from Ninth Floor Radio, who will bring all her post-seasonal no wave favorites.

PLUS a very special LIVE performance by one of my most favorite local acts,
who’s name I’m not allowed to devulge. a surprise. CLAP! bartender Uncle Barry will there pouring some kinda scary drink special that’ll get you bloody hammered. and there will also be some rarely seen foreign cult movies on the teevee screens that will never leave your brain. promise.
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PS> Aunt Charlie’s is at 133 Turk St. in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District.

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What did you do 25 years into your lukewarm career? Make an awesome song about it? I bet not! Luckily Too $hort was here to make that awesome song about long hauled mediocrity and getting head that you weren’t willing to write. And that’s why his Summer 2006 hyphy hit Blow The Whistle made our list of Best San Francisco Songs of All Time!

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Chris Crocker @ The Crib SF 10/25/07

As you can see in the video above, Chris Crocker proved his quote all too well on Thursday. The thing is, Chris IS talented. It’s just that his medium is so new that it has not been acknowledged or even noticed yet.

Part of Chris’ old shtick was pretending to be famous in videos posted on his MySpace. Most of his videos took place inside of his grandparent’s rural house when they weren’t around. His audience was the Internet; the wide, abstract and grossly impersonal Internet.

Not participating in human contact with your audience can provide a really interesting environment for an artist to develop. This kind of development has been romanticized in the art world forever. These personalities range from pretentious home-recordists like Jandek, to scared shut-ins like Henry Darger and countless other people probably including your mom. Outsider artists (for lack of a better term) are the one type of artist that goes unquestioned. Their motives seem true and their output feels authentic.

Chris’ videos, for me, felt very much like a outsider artists’ home-recorded album. His videos ranged the span of human emotion, they seemed sometimes… pointless. They felt lonely. They showed that same sort of sexy courage that we only posses when we are alone in our bedroom.

It was interesting to see Chris live at The Crib on Thursday. I realized Chris is now famous. I felt really lucky to see one of Chris’ first performances on stage in front of hundreds of people. I understood his craft wouldn’t translate to stage, but I was very curious to see how he was as an entertainer. His performance felt rehearsed but determined. It was fun and fanatical. It was new and nerdy. I loved it. This new generation is much different than my own. They didn’t have their mind blown by Kurt Cobain or The Chronic. Something else happened that we’re not aware of yet. It may have something to do with the Internet.

I thoroughly enjoyed spending the night locked in the club with my art/business partner Aaron. We didn’t buy any drinks for the nineteen year olds who asked. We leaned around and people-watched just as fathers do when they become overwhelmed by shopping malls. We felt old.

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Like the Twilight Zone, The Vortex Room is some kind of dimensional portal giving us a glimpse of the other side… conventiently located in SOMA and with seriously good drinks.

Last weekend they showed The Car and on Halloween is Psychomania. This weekend they’re having a Halloween party and you can be sure that will be fun. Just look through their comments, this is the only place some people feel safe taking off their tin foil hats!

Check it out!

http://www.myspace.com/thevortexroom

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For me, Chris Crocker represents a huge shift in ‘punk rock’ (for lack of a better term). I believe if I were an angry teenager growing up in the middle of nowhere in 2008, I would not start a punk band - instead I would be making provocative YouTube videos. Right now, Chris Crocker is my favorite band… even though he doesn’t make music.

Watching Chris’ contagious videos convinced me that making an ass of one’s self on the Internet is a good idea. He inspired me to make my own idiotic videos. Chris changed the way I think about the Internet. He taught me that the Internet is anything I want it to be. I can’t wait to see Chris Thursday on his first visit to San Francisco. I have no idea what he is going to do, but it will be fun. I’ll be hanging out amongst the lovely Monistat who is host for the evening. You shouldn’t miss this either.

I’m totally getting my hopes up. This flyer looks like the magazines I bought when I was sick. It’s amazing.

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Our friend Cole gave us the heads up that the floating corpses were playing the Clarion Alley Street Fair this past weekend, and we’re so glad he did. This was a super fun show. The mission punks were having a great time, the weather was nice, and floating corpses and their brand of goth/punk/drag with squealing, distorted keyboard and falsetto vocals were extra great. Maybe its because they have a new drummer, or maybe it was because it was such a nice day, or maybe its just because this band is extra great.

If you missed them on Sunday, you can totally see them this Thursday at The Eagle. It was so fun I’m thinking of going again!

Here’s some a video and some photos:

see the rest here

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Bay Area rapper Tequila blogs about where she got her name.

IF I GOT A NICKEL FOR EVERYONE THAT ASSUMES I AM TILA TEQUILA I WOULD BE PAID!!!!!! HOWEVER, MY REAL BIRTH NAME IS TEQUILA, AND I WAS RAISED BY SOUTHERN BAPTIST PARENTS THAT DID NOT KNOW TEQUILA WAS A DRINK WHEN THEY NAMED ME TEQUILA.

Check out Tequila’s single “Go Dumb Girl” over at her MySpace. It’s bangin.

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I guess its appropriate that Carletta Sue Kay was on the bill at Club Chuckles, a comedy night hosted by the Hemlock, last week. Just look at that big dumpy dress she wears, that’s got to be a joke. Right? Or, maybe, its because this Appalachian folkstress’ (I made up a word!) cabaret stylings and songs about relationships gone bad fit right in this evening. I mean, there’s always laughs to be had about relationships gone bad.

Supposedly, Carletta draws her inspiration from the time she spent serving time in Iowa for trying to blow up her boyfriend’s house and possession of terrorist materials, but that just sounds like a cover story. Carletta made an appearance on the scene, suddenly, after her cousin Emile vanished. Perhaps this is just another in his long line of plastic surgeries? Either way, Carletta has tons of material to fuel her songs, and you know she’s speaking from the heart when she sings “Love ain’t love until someone calls the cops”.

Whatever the deal is, Carletta was in fine form at the hemlock. First of all, they did a pretty cool Jesus and Mary Chain cover (but I guess that’s just in the air, what with their two shows this weekend) which made me smile. But, also, stripped down to a three piece, the instrumentation didn’t overwhelm the songs (which I felt it did other times I’d seen this band) and the focus fell squarely on the vocals, which is where it ought to be.

see the rest here

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