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The Mall, The Fucking Ocean, and Yikes.
The Mall, The Fucking Ocean, and Yikes. @El Rio. May 20, 2006
After a hellish night that ended with dawn yet again, I wasn't sure that I could muster the energy to ride down to El Rio to see The Mall even though there one of my favorites. Considering that Fecal Face is a sponsor of this year's Mission Creek, I thought I'd better go and see at least one show. So I downed a tall boy, hooked up the IPod, got on the scoot, and made my way through the warm night to the deep Mission to root on my Mall homies and to see Fuck Wolf (missed them), The Fucking Ocean, and Dywer's newest project, Yikes (so so good).
Darren above...
So glad that I went to the show. There are bars you'd want to be at on a rare warm SF night. There's Zeitgeist and El Rio with it's nice patio area out back.
The Mall...
Bummed I missed Fuck Wolf, but glad that I was able to see three out the four bands... The Mall had the place packed.
Aaaa, I was that guy a few times.
I liked the telephone mic.
The Fucking Ocean were great.... I've never seen them before. They have this surfy kinda sound to them... Droney/ with some great guitar and driving rhythmic... wait, I suck at writing about music. Listen to some of their music on their MySpace Page.
Dave from Hightower!
Oh god, they did an amazing cover of Will Ferrell's Blue Oyster Cult cow bell skit. Check out the original video below.
BTW, I found this great site where you can do searches for video. It's good good. furl.com. If you've seen it on the web somewhere and forgot where, use that site to find it.
Jeff Ray who does Mission Creek with another Mission Creeker whose name I forgot.
Dan from The Mall and Jeff from The Mission Creek
Yikes... I've missed so many Ohsees shows so I was pretty pleased to be able to see John Dwyer's newest creation, Yikes... It's got this southern swampy sound to it. Blue-ish mucky like. Very good.
Mr. Nick Neubeck... Nick, don't forget to invite me to go camping!
I didn't really get a good photo of Yikes. They played with the lights off and people were really getting into it. My harsh flash takes the great vibe away from the show. And in this photo people look kinda bored which was way not the case. Man, I suck at capturing the moment.
Some lovely wall decorations.
Ellory of The Mall Loads up.
Leanne and I
Ellory and Dan
And then ended up at a dance party way too late. Had to bail to find some pizza somewhere in the city and not see the sun rise yet again. It's disastrous for the next day's working schedule, and I'm not partial to vampires.
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Kelly Tunstall & Susie Ghahremani tonight, Saturday, in NYC @Giant Robot. Meant to tell you guys sooner. Preview. September 4, 6:30 - 10:00 p.m. Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009 (212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net
Brooklyn based Don Porcella emailed over a few photos from his current show featuring his unique pipe cleaner sculptures @Alphonse Berber Projects here in SF (575 Sutter St.). The show Nature Boy runs through 10/2.
The meteoric rise and fall of Jean-Michel Basquiat, born 1960. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star status.” In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988. The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody.
Wanna thank NYC based painter David Lyle for sending us this fantastic print. David's paintings are inspired from found photographs. He "feels that to find a lost photo and paint it, allows the photo and the memory to have a second life." We've been fans of his work for some time now. ~check some
Wanna thank marijuana dispensary The Vapor Room for being a sponsor of our 10 year anniversary show opening up on Sept 10th here in San Francisco. Funny because we don't even smoke pot here at Fecal Face, but if we did, The Vapor Room would be our jam.
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