One of the weird ironies of my life is that Sacramento is becoming a far more interesting and active place just as I'm getting too old, housebound and otherwise busy to go out much. In addition to the nearly daily live bands I'm missing because I'm going to some public meeting or have a book or magazine deadline or a class, there are now two ( Read more... )

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ahhh, BitTorrent. I downloaded the studio version of "Whores" that Trent Reznor posted, it is indeed mighty fine, but doing so reminded me that I had tried to download a huge collection of GG Allin albums a while back. It finished downloading and now I'm waltzing down Memory Lane listening to GG Allin albums that I bought on cassette and vinyl in ( Read more... )

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So for some reason I found myself in the Beat last week, and bought a few things I had on decaying cassette and wanted on CD, including the Mr. Bungle CD, Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" and "Freak Out!", Operation Ivy "Energy" and the Foetus collection "Sink", plus two Jane's Addiction albums I had been meaning to buy. Even though I always kinda ( Read more... )

S.A.W. #29
Sunday, FEBURARY 22, 2009
THE GOOBERTARIUM
1819 23rd Street, Sacramento, CA
noon - $5 donation - all ages

KILL KILL KILL (los angeles)
INSTAGON NOISE TRIO (sac)
PINK CANOES (san francisco)
NOISEPSALM (placerville)
LIVER CANCER (roseville)

the 23rd Street noise mojo locale is in full effect. Leave a comment  2 

So, because I am DJing at REVERENCE next month, I had an official excuse to buy new records. My last stay in SF was too short to do any record shopping, so I used the excuse of the new CAUSTIC release "THIS IS JIZZCORE" to place an order via Crunch Pod Distro. Picked up some Aesthetic Perfection, Necessary Response, Everything Goes Cold, as well as ( Read more... )

Well, the class I was on the wait-list for is full, but they're offering it next semester, and I designed an independent study class to do instead. And in two weeks I will officially be a historian for a living. And I gave a presentation on my book this Monday that had huge turnout and made me feel all hella rockstar. And I just had some tasty ( Read more... )

Had a nice time at the EMRL. Lots of drinks and toasts were made, we were able to observe the giant crowd without having to wade through it, which was nice. A couple photos from out the window:
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