Where’s Jon?

I wont be making it this year and for that I am quite sad…. But, that doesnt mean you shouldnt go….
Best night of the year ever. So put on your trailer best and head on out!
Bring the following for discount entry before 1030pm:
This Friday November 23rd (The Day After Thanksgiving) MISS KITTY’S ANNUAL WHITE TRASH BALL 2007!!!
This is the most fun ever, period, no matter what. If you don’t come to this party yens is dumb as hell. How’s that? Still fat from thanksgiving and feel like wearing yer sweats? good. It’s on Mother Truckers.
yer trashiest best is encouraged and rewarded! see old friends and new at the annual hoedown you just kant miss!!
GET THERE EARLY - $1 MOONSHINE TIL 10PM!!!!
9PM-2AM, 6510 Santa Monica Blvd (At Wilcox) in Hollywood, $13 Cover more info: www.misskittysparlour.comor www.myspace.com/starfactoryproductions
SPECIAL FER YEW: $5 UNTIL 10:30 PM W/THIS PASS
More info to come! Fiddle shows, strippers, Line danctin and more! This’s jus a heads up!

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Jeff is a glass blower who occasionally opens his studio

and gives glass blowing demonstrations.  If you've gone

to The Renaissance Pleasure Faire over the past 10 years,

you may have seen him giving demonstrations on how glass

was worked hundreds of years ago.  In his studio, of

course, he uses a variety of fancy techniques.  He also

sells lots of glass bowls, vases, abstract pieces, and

levitating marbles at a discount, AND serves snacks!

Levitating marbles are great optical illusions: a glass

sphere is placed within a spiral copper wire hanging on

a string; when it is spun, the spiral fools your brain

into thinking that the sphere is going either up or down.

His studio is at

1208 E. Walnut St., Unit D, Santa Ana.

Here is his website (http://www.jeffpriceartglass.com/).

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From a friend… Looks interesting… Apparently safari sams has cheap breakfast every sunday from noon to 4….

Update.. I heard the food sucked… too bad.  How can you mess up breakfast?

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Dr. D discusses delightful data, damnit.

3440 Mol Sci, UCLA

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Just a heads up…. 1, the place is hard to find… 2, golem won’t be on until 1015…. The lineup is as follows: 9pm, mr uncertain. 915 quazar and the bamboozled, 1015pm GOLEM…

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Now they are on the Echo website: http://www.attheecho.com/?m=20071115&cat=2The show is at 8:30 pm and is only $10 at the door (only $14 online). Golem’s klezmer music is very entertaining (kind of like “The Punk Polka” performed in Yiddish), and watching this performance will make our Eastern European ancestors proud of us. Even if you don’t understand Yiddish or Ladino or Polish or …, Golem often gives a synopsis in English, and occasionally even some language lessons.

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Dada is a fantastic band that had a few moments of widespread popularity in the mid ‘90’s with radio coverage of songs like “Dizz Knee Land“. Now, they have enough of a loyal fan base to fill places like House Of Blues, The Roxy, and The Troubadour. Mike (guitar) and Joie (bass) are great singers (both do lead vocals) and amazing musicians, but the best thing about the band is the catchy melodies these guys have devised. Phil, the drummer, is also very good, and although he doesn‘t sing, he apparently narrates a series on The Weather Channel called “Epic Conditions“! Buying all of Dada’s albums (starting with “Puzzle” and “American Highway Flower“) is heartily recommended, but one can also listen to 30 sec samples of every song at http://www.dadatheband.com/audio/. [Read more →]

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Update:  The pumpkin martinis were great — Not too sweet and a perfect mix of spices.  For those that care, girl:guy was about 3:1.

Lolas…. One of the better mac and cheese joints and they have been advertising their pumpkin martinis…. We shall see.. Either way, always a nice hangout.

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November 16th has two events of some interest…. Mutaytor (at Safari Sam’s) and BT4 (at Genghis Cohen).

What do these two events have in common?  Well, if you were smart, you saw Oingo Boingo (- Danny Elfman) at HOB the weekend before Halloween.  Presented as “Johnny Vatos and Friends“.  Awesome instrumentals (of course) with vocals performed by BT4…. The show had many original band members including John Avila and Steve Bartek.

Now… I am going to be at the BT4 show on the 16th, the fact that Steve Bartek will be playing with BT4 pretty much made that an easy decision, even though Mutaytor puts on a great show.

BUT, then, it turns out that John Avila might have performed with BT4 as well (that would have ROCKED!), but, he will NOT be performing with BT4 because he has a competing gig… With Mutaytor.  Gargh!

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