My Weekend In Shitty Camera Phone Pictures

SATURDAY



There's a liquor store on Hayes Street where a 10-year old girl and her little brother make the most amazing paintings on little blocks of wood and sell them for $5. I picked one up for myself - a donkey playing soccer. There are crude speech bubbles above the donkey and the soccer ball.

Donkey: GOOOAALLLL
Soccer Ball: Yeah Right





Had brunch with Patty, Jesse and Daniel at Flippers. Did you know they serve brunch? It's not that good, but they have a pretty sweet courtyard and the food is pretty cheap. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.


Erin texted and said Papercuts were playing a free show at Amoeba. They sounded amazing, and I picked up the last record on vin-yul and got a free poster. I think I'm too old to have band posters up on my wall (except for my omg totally limited edition screen-printed Orange Juice Poster), but it was a win anyway.

After Amoeba, Erin and I wandered around Haight Street. Upon exiting Wasteland, we were greeted with the sight of 25 or so nude middle-aged men bicycle riding for peace, their soggy old sacs swaying in the breeze. Some of them had half-ons and it made us feel weird to our very cores.


But hey, if this ends a war somewhere I guess my eyes burning for a few short seconds is a small price to pay.


We went to Piedmont, a drag queen/stripper/raver store, and I bought some amazing earrings. I was tempted to buy these rhinestone pins as well, but they were $25!!


Although, the "OH SHIT" one might actually be worth the money.


Later I went home and admired my new purchases. New records always make me super happy. (Um come see me play them at Casanova this Wednesday night with cutie pie Michael Aguilar. End plug.)


New (used) shoes from Wasteland! They're dEzInEr!!!1

SUNDAY


Went to brunch at Andalu, which gets worse every time I eat there. Walked to Jessica's house to help her load her drums into her station wagon so we could take them to our AWESOME BAND'S practice space. Spotted this on a telephone pole. It reads "Her stove, and put out her food in tins."


Outside a liquor store on 23rd St. For some reason this made me happy.


I teased Jessica about her bumper sticker.


There were a couple of old copies of Seattle alternative weekly "The Stranger" in the practice space. The back cover featured this call for people with ass herpes.


We wrote a new song! It sounds like this:


Oops, kinda lost steam after a minute.






Had dinner with Jessica and Sean after practice at We Be Sushi. (The good one near 22nd, not the gross one near 16th). The artwork on the bathroom walls is kind of mind-blowing.


Finally hooked up my turntable and listened to the Beets record I bought at Aquarius. It's ok.


Capped off an awesome weekend by watching "Coming To America." Success!!!

Hi Jessica

Top 5 Tunez! Mid-June

Hey dudes, as promised here are my top 5 solid gold chart-busters of the week.

(I'm feeling hella mellow today.)

1. Psychic TV - The Orchids



2. Can - I'm Hiding My Nightingale



3. France Gall - Cinq Minutes D'Amour




4. Novos Baianos - Preta Pretinha



5. Hopkirk And Lee - Free Arthur Lee!

It's So Cold

Dude, what is up with this overcast shit? It's fucking June! Saturday and yesterday were perfect bikeriding weather but today it's all grey and cold. SF WEATHER HUH?

Change the "D" to SF, and this is how I feel about today.



(thanks Erin Fant for sending me this video. This song has been stuck in my head for the last 3 days. How the fuck do we posed to keep peace?)

Top 5 Tunez of The Week

This week I'm really missing being able to do new episodes of The Little Wizard Hour, my show on West Add Radio that I did from 2005-8. (Archives are still up here - If you want to know how drunk I got on Friday nights and who I dated/dumped/got dumped by during these years, this is a great way to find out). Apparently West Add's founder Daniel is coming back from Shanghai this week, and a glimmer of hope resides in me that he'll start the station back up and I could do my show again! That would rule, no? Until then, or until I can find another station willing to let me blabber incessantly about nothing between the sick fucking jams I'm busting (ANY IDEAS? PLEASE GIVE ME A SHOW! I HAVE GOOD TASTE I PROMISE), I'm just gonna post my fave songs of the week on this here blog. Every week.

Seriously though...someone give me a show! I have all these tunes that are just sitting around getting sad that they're not being shared with you guys.

Anyway, my top 5 songs this week:

1. Human League - Love Action

Yeah yeah, Human League were pretty fucking cheesy, and "Don't You Want Me" is pretty much the anthem of the Marina crowd (or whatever your city's equivalent of the Marina is...wherever people wear a lot of Ed Hardy), but have you ever listened to "Dare" in its entirety? It's so good! Love Action and The Sound of the Crowd are definitely the best songs on this record, but there really isn't a bad track to be found.



2. Banbarra - Shack Up

HOLY SHIT this song is amazing. I only knew the A Certain Ratio version of this song (which is also rad but can't hold a candle to this one), but thanks to new fave blog Musicophilia, I learned that it's actually a cover of this MONSTER SLICE OF FUNK. (ew i hate that word, in any context) Also may I point out that the lyrics are kinda genius?

"We can talk about the wedding ceremony/And I know it's so so phony"



3. Beach House - ??? (Uten Tittel (Lydverket Spanderer)

I have no idea what the above foreign stuff means, and I don't even know what song this is, but this live version of um whatever it is performed acoustic in a weird dark bunker is so so amazing.



4. REM - Baby I

I love, love love love LOVE early REM. Chronic Town is up there with MBV's You Made Me Realise as one of my fave ep's of all time. I had actually never heard this song until some dude I was hanging out with played it for me. Does anyone know if other recordings of this song exist? A little help?



5. The Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home

The new Oh Sees record, Help, is easily the best album of this year so far. Also, the cover art rules. I totally miss seeing Coachwhips play because they were a lot more ferocious and scary, but the Oh Sees are still totally the best live band in SF right now.




SAD UPDATE: Just got a message from Daniel saying that he's only visiting for two weeks - NOOOOOOOOOuh. Daniel, if you're reading this you need to move back! I miss you, you fucking douchebag sleazeball mantitty.

Ok so then um who wants to give me a show?!?!

Thursday Night!

I'm not above posting flyers for my gay dj nights on my blog.

So um...if you're in SF this Thursday night, come to ALL FALL DOWN at the Knockout. Magic Bullets and Young Prisms are playing! Jessica, Corey, me and special guest Yoshi Nakamoto (Aislers Set, Still Flyin', Fisticuffs Bluff) are dj'ing THE VERY BEST indiepop/postpunk/c86 records. Come get drunk and take embarassing photobooth pictures!

May Highlights

A new feature for DGNBS!! At the beginning of every month, I'll do a recap of the previous. I wish I had something wittier to say here, but my brain is pretty fried at the moment.


Took BART to Chuck E. Cheese in San Bruno, drank a margarita at Red Robin and went back to win enough tickets playing skee-ball to buy myself some fake tattoos.


Spent almost every Thursday at Jack's bar for karaoke with DJ Purple. Went to work every Friday morning with a super raspy voice from singing my heart out.


Uno and I wore matching outfits.


At Debaser (and at the "afterparty" that followed), Michael grabbed all the straight dudes' weiners. He still doesn't remember doing this.


Early birthday dinner at Pauline's!!


A closeup of the cake everyone pitched in for. Does the fact that I was so touched by this that I cried make me gay?


Went to New York for 4 days. Ended up at a weird burning man-esque roof party where there were people dressed as crabs and sea hag drag queens.


Spent my birthday walking across the Williamsburg bridge with Michael, Leti and Teva. Later there was LES wandering and fancy dinner.


The next weekend was pretty amazing. Baldur and Jessica and I took an epic bus ride to Baker Beach.


We took a wrong turn and ended up on the nakey side!! Eewps.


Drove to San Jose to see Cimi do her brown dancing for the first time ever! I think her dad likes me. ;)


Spent Maya's birthday brunching at Suppenkuche and hanging out in Dolores Park.


Later there was a kitchen dance party at 651 Kansas.


The next morning, Baldur and I drank orange juice in the back yard and discussed our lovelives.


Sadly bid Tommy farewell. He's on his way to DC to shack up with his gf! Good luck buddy! I miss you already.


After the party, found a cerveza arch to hang out under.


Sarah visited from NY. (actually, she's still here) Shortly after this photo was taken, my iPhone flew out of my purse as a result of dancing too hard to karaoke No Doubt, and I totally cracked the screen in a million places.


Ended the month at the Knockout (aka my second home on weekends) taking sweaty photobooth pics with JeffChris.

Yay May!!