One last tease before I go to bed. vestalvixen and I had a good time at Ellen Allien. From afar she was hard to distinguish from Sasha Funke. They both had close-cropped brown hair, and they both wore t-shirts on their slight frames. It turns out Ellen had more of a mullet, so her hair was slightly longer in the back ( Read more... )

I'm excited to see Ellen Allien for the second time soon. I skipped her last appearance here because: 1) I did not want to listen to the umpteen trance DJs before and after her and 2) I am aging and staying up until 6 AM does not bring me any jollies. It's not edgy or exotic. I've seen the sun rise before. I need a very good reason to disturb my ( Read more... )

When seminal electronic label R&S folded, I lamented the downward spiral of electronic music. I don't mean in talent or sound, but in popularity. The music was bursting out of its niche in the nineties. It faced mainstream labels wanting to buy it, but unsure how to market it, and rock critics unwilling to learn new vocabulary and syntax to ( Read more... )

erinin3d kindly made me her plus one for two films at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival at the Castro Theatre today. vestalvixen was in attendance at the first one as well, and she met up with us to dish film while we ate some thin crust pizza.

The first film we saw was "I'm a cyborg but that's ok". I've never seen any films by Park Chan- ( Read more... )