Puce Moment last minute add on thanks to the lovely Carletta!

plus the horde of rand
http://www.myspace.com/pucemomentsf
http://www.myspace.com/carlettasuekay

As of the time of this post Sony’s new gay label, music with a twist, had an access denied message up. I guess they’re still in the closet? THATS SO GAY.

Come to the Eagle Tavern tonight for music instead. They’re not in the closet and thursday nights aren’t all about being gay (except for tonight. tonight its all about being gay):

Dorian Wood
Lucky Jesus
Carletta Sue Kay

You know, originally I was just going to post about a few options available tonight but now that I have these three fliers in one place I wonder if I should do an expose on flyer design. Ok, specifically flyer design for the gay stuff. Everybody: there are options other than porn. Even if its extreme and amateur and funny porn.

Anyway, Anavan plays tonight at monthly beard party Trans Am. One of the dudes in Anavan runs eggcityradio and I appreciate all of the downloaded goodness I get from that site. Hard Place assure us the band is great live and I’ve been wanting to check them out since we had to leave before their set in Austin. Kdaija (who has no internet presence in 2008) and Ambrosia Salad will emote in wigs. DJ Dirty Knees keeps this party going every month. For completenesses sake I should mention Dee Jay Pee Play of Honey Sound System is playing too.

Club Feral is also tonight for those of you who are more gutter punk goth freak than beard fag. I like this club because they have a bake sale and I’m usually hungry. Death Of A Party, sexual terrorists Wealthy Whore Entertainment, the totally deranged Stalker Holler, and Goo perform. Plus, our buddy Gary Fembot from The Clap and Violent Vickywill be spinning records. Keep your eye on gary though, he’s totally going to flyer you for his band’s show coming up this Friday.

Doesn’t Randy look great in that photo?? Carletta Sue Kay play tonight and they summed this show up better than I could:

lee is going to freakin’ kill me. he just came home blasted. i made him something to eat. he told me to f@#k off then passed the F(%k out on our bed. i went to see if he was okay and he had sour cream ALL OVER HIS FACE. wanted to take a picture but in the end decided to be nice. instead ive opted to drink all if not most of his ardbeg. he’s gonna KILL ME!!!! oh! right! we are playing tonight, saturday, at 285 9th street at the Nine Gallery. the sound is actually going to be really nice so COME ON OUT YALL!!!! it is absolutely, 100 per cent FREEEEEE, and…now im speaking to all my friend’s livers….AN OPEN BAR!!!!!! AND, there is going to be some really lovely art and probably a few people who you quite likely would not introduce to your family. always fun. so come on out and hear our sad sappy songs. we love you….FOREVER…EVER….EVER…EVER….randy

Photo: Carletta Sue Kay spotted at the Hard Place show….Photo by Jeremy Smears

The Clarences, The Passionistas, Carletta Sue Kay, Gran Via.

January, 25 2008 at Ghost Town Gallery
2519 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland,
Cost : 5 bucks

18+ Do Not Leave Valuables in Your Car!

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.

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Tonight is goth night at LADY! And while goths aren’t that fun, LADY always is! And Carletta Sue Kay totally rule – so go see them on Thursday.

I’m usually SO annoyed by bands from Olympia. You know why? I’ll tell you why: they have it TOO easy! Olympia is the home of K Records and Kill Rock Stars. So it’s easy for a mediocre band from the small-ass town of Olympia to get a deal with either of these prestigious labels. All the college radio stations cream their pants for anything with the K or KRS stamp of inde approval. I’ve seen it before. Why can’t Olympia be like any other town? Why can’t they have great unsigned bands that break up after not releasing anything?

Fierce Perm is one of those rare bands from Olympia that actually rule. They’re not on K or KRS yet… but they deserve it. They played at LADY!! last night, which was pretty rad. It was my first time seeing the band, and I was really impressed. They were really punk rock in the ideal sense. They made their own kind of punk rock. The drummer was gorgeous. He’s not my type or anything, but he looked really cool playing the drums. There should be a welfare program for gorgeous drummers. The government should send a check to him because he really shouldn’t be doing anything else.

Carletta Sue Kay played right before the perm. Instead of their full rock band, there were only two of them. I liked it better than their show I saw a week earlier at the Eagle. I payed closer attention. Their song selection was phenomenal and they really committed to overindulging. Plus their outfits were OTT.

I’m really sorry to report that I missed Woman of Color. I was drinking white wine at a friend’s house. I was not aware of the time. Elton Tom said he really loved their MP3’s. We’ll report on them soon… I’m thinking they need to create a high-concept MySpace page first.