August 20, 2008
I leave San Francisco tomorrow morning before 8; then it’s off to work, then straight to the Far-East Bay where I will finish my preparations, packing and panicking; then, Friday morning early, Master Goodwin and I depart for the desert (this means Burning Man, to the uninitiated). You will find the Blight at 6 o’clock along Dart within Fandango (next to the bar, coincidentally). You can’t miss us.
The above photo was taken at 2nd Skin in gear co-designed with my favorite performer and clothing designer, Bad Unkl Sista. Looking for last minute clothes for Burning Man? Go to Trunk (formerly Pandora’s Trunk) on Friday: 544 Haight Street between Steiner and Fillmore, 7-10PM. (Google Maps) Find her work (and help her get to the playa) and that by designers Miranda Caroligne, Lucid Dawn, Pallas / Martyr
Architect G, Dida Jewelry, Fati Beloved, Chacabraka, and many others.
Photo taken by Amy Snyder for the Exploratorium; distributed under Creative Commons.
August 12, 2008
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Last Friday — 8-8-08 – saw a fine lineup of performers including Vau de Vire Society, Gooferman, Bad Unkl Sista, Fou Fou Ha!, Lapsus, The Tongues, Dr. Abacus, and more. This was a fundraiser for KSea Flux’s project, Big Top Magazine, which recently won the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award for local zine.
We rode in on the Fandango Freedom Bus, adorned with clown-noses and rocking out to tunes from Bootie mashup, then joined the fray; and our compatriot Monica of Lollyphile fame (purveyors of the delight that is absinthe and bacon-maple lollies) took over the unattended coat check booth and proceeded to work it without permission or pay. These are shenanigans of the responsible variety.
Pictured above is a performer with Lapsus, the dark belly dance troupe.
August 5, 2008
The Blight will be located within Fandango this year, near 6 o’clock and Dart (directly behind The Wheel/Center Camp).
We arrive Friday the 22nd, and if all goes according to plan, will have an art car (acting as a mobile photo studio). We should be easily recognizeable.
What are you plans? Leave a comment below.
July 29, 2008
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Loop Station had their six-year anniversary at the eccentricly decorated Cafe Van Kleef in Oakland this past Saturday, and played two great sets of some new and some old.
Check out their website and listen to sample tunes here: www.loopthis.com
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Tuesday saw the trunk show at the local clothing store, 5 & Diamond, whose high couture custom fashions are lusted after by many (not excluding your humble narrator). Pictured above are Juniper and Buddhamonkey of Steamtrunk fame and also occasional performers with Vau de Vire. Also included in this set are designs from Wild Card, bits and pieces of which I wear on a frequent basis…
July 14, 2008
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The delightful Gibbous Fashions brought me in to cover their vignette at the Stellar Fashion Show Awards at the Phoenix Hotel | Bambuddha Lounge yesterday in San Francisco, hosted by Del Geronimo and sponsored by Citizen Citizen, SF Station, FlavorPill and City Model Management. [SFFashionShowAwards website]
July 11, 2008
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Last night saw an interesting variety of acts at our neighborhood haunt — opening was Nezzy Iddy (pic), with haunting ethereal vocals over dark ambient soundscapes; followed by Vinsantos (pic) and his casket piano and Randy Odell (from Jill Tracy and the Malcontent Orchestra) on percussion joined by Kitten on the Keys. Things got stranger with New Thrill Parade (pic), which could best be described as a goth hillbilly clown animal freakshow. The music was good, too.
Finally, we had the headliners, 45 Grave (pic) — though suffering from Wednesday night pumpkin-o’clock attrition (that’s midnight for those of you who don’t have day-jobs) — they still had the crowd moshing and rocked out.
July 2, 2008
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Vau de Vire Society, Gooferman and Fou Fou Ha!, joined by our darling friends Cirque Berzerk and the Wandering Marionettes, were brought in to perform at the Electric Daisy Carnival in downtown Los Angeles. We had been warned: it was candy raver central, with music so loud it hurt. I thought that demographic had died a decade ago, but alas: a bastion of plush rainbowbright remains amongst the fifteen-year-olds in the arid southron lands of this fair state. Who knew?
For those who aren’t familiar with the term, please see Wikipedia’s candy raver entry. Know that we hid in performer areas as much as possible and no, I took no photos of them (potential legality issues aside (plus, if their mothers saw what they were wearing…)).
UPDATE: From Mike “Vau de Vire” –
Rumor has it that the Electric Daisy Carnival had 75K attendees which made it the largest attended non-sporting event in LA since 1930 and largest rave in LA history. The producers said, as they always do, that VdV was the highlight of their event.
June 19, 2008
Photos here.
Last weekend found us in Los Angeles, at an artist warehouse complex known as the Brewery. The itinerary was only to engage in varying degrees of jackassery with clowns, mostly of the Cirque Berzerk variety. In this we were successful, though the Mutaytor is fired for not showing up.
It is likely that we return late next month for the big Cirque Berzerk show Beneath — more info on that later.
