tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57289130056828251762024-03-13T12:29:24.592-07:00Californiageddonrepository for musings. bay area writer/comic/musician typeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-77042828615743196652014-12-12T18:29:00.000-08:002014-12-12T18:29:04.491-08:004 years<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-47948174897308279442014-06-06T15:47:00.001-07:002014-06-06T15:47:36.085-07:00earnest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
it has been a long time, I think facebook has overtaken my online presence. Twitter even less so. we all work for facebook.<br />
Things are good. They are a radical 180 from this same time last year. The last three years.<br />
I have recollections of looking for an apartment at the end of 2011. I didn't want to live in Palo Alto, I didn't want the job I had, I was trying to picture what life would be like as a suburban middle-aged man and did not see a lot of options.<br />
I think I made the right choice to go live in San Francisco with old friends and doubling my efforts into doing standup. I tried to do music and standup at the same time for a while, but the dissolution of one band really helped make that decision for me.<br />
Just taking a moment to be grateful for the life that I am leading right now. I live in the same place in Oakland for the past 6 years. I am dating someone, I am doing standup regularly and have performed with people I would have been surprised to even have a conversation with. I've gotten to travel performing my art. I play music once in a while when I want to. I like my job(s). I talk to most of my family.<br />
I kind of want a cat though.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-51589926137040286652013-08-30T12:14:00.003-07:002013-08-30T12:14:44.518-07:00Breaking Bad - Confessions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was a guest on the Breaking Bad recap podcast Roff Pizza Chronicles.<br />
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don't listen if you haven't caught up to season 5 "Confessions" Episode 11.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-67821523349524138532013-07-20T10:32:00.001-07:002013-07-20T10:32:59.264-07:00Carla Bozulich interview<a href="http://georgezum.podomatic.com/entry/2013-07-16T07_51_51-07_00">http://georgezum.podomatic.com/entry/2013-07-16T07_51_51-07_00</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-11788524556689043532013-06-23T10:44:00.005-07:002013-06-24T12:48:17.301-07:00DJ NIGHT Sunday 6/23<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'll be playing records with my friends <a href="http://obsoleteunits.com/" target="_blank">Paul </a>and <a href="http://amillionkeys.com/" target="_blank">Ceci </a>tonight at the Night Light in Jack London Square.<br />
What genres are we doing? it's a total grab bag of random, but it's free and I always enjoy sharing music with folks.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-59805395420562008312013-05-26T13:19:00.000-07:002013-05-26T13:19:31.040-07:00Guitar Trio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'll be performing in a small group with Rhys Chatham performing Guitar Trio next Friday June 7th at the Lab.<br />
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Announcement of the official application and call for guitarists<br /> A discussion with Rhys Chatham on the history of his 100-200 guitar ensemble pieces<br /> Performance of his groundbreaking work Guitar Trio (1977)<br /> A chance to meet and talk to the artists, including Rhys Chatham</div>
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Written in 1977, G3 is Rhys Chatham's signature composition, and with good reason. With a single, repeated chord, Chatham permanently altered the DNA of rock by splicing the gritty, overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the elemental fury of the Ramones. Tonight's performance teams Rhys Chatham up with some of the best musicians in the Bay Area.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-72611345707778009452013-05-20T10:57:00.000-07:002013-05-20T10:57:15.218-07:00post mortem on a bubble crash<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
had an experience last night at a comedy/music show at lobot that i initially labelled as "interesting," but is indicative of a deeper questioning. i thought it better to explore on the long form more personal blog than my tumblr which is comedy oriented.<br />
black pus was playing with stillsuit and no babies and uh-oh. i had talked to ben about having me do a comedy set at the show. it turned into a half-half comedy and music show with four comedians and four bands.<br />
there was one set that upset a few people (i only talked to a few people about it. not sure what the overall vibe of the audience was). specifically, from what i gathered after the fact (i was out of the room, but i'm familiar with the material) it was based around a punchline that uses the word "faggot," and there was also an allusion to oscar grant.<br />
i've started to feel jaded about the levels of attitudes i inherently disagree with but are on constant display at open mics. i'm not absolving myself of these attitudes either, i'm definitely working out some uncomfortable things on stage. but the thing that was explained to me about last night was viewing the music community as a safe-space, a positive and accepting environment, and feeling like the comedy portion was basically taking a big shit on this.<br />
there's been a lot written lately on what people allow in a comedy space, a lot of it around rape jokes, and <a href="http://jezebel.com/an-open-letter-to-white-male-comedians-497503334" target="_blank">comedians getting defensive and invoking free speech whenever they are called out on it</a>.<br />
i was feeling a bit on the defensive at this point in the evening because all the other comics had left and i felt like i was filling the role of representing "comedy," which is a ridiculous feeling, but one that i absorb as someone who has deep connections in the music world.<br />
having a frank discussion with a friend about what bothered him, i realized a few things. the concept of a "safe space" is anathema to comedy, as it's traditionally considered. but that is also based on perhaps dated ideas about comedy as a last resort for antisocial libertarian stream-of-consciousness spouting - people who idolize bill hicks without noting that he has a lot of homophobic and misogynist content as well. would hicks have evolved his attitudes had he lived? probably, i'd like to think so. he was a product of his times and era. it makes me cringe to hear this stuff twenty years later, but he would not still be making jokes about debbie gibson and rick astley in 2013 either.<br />
the notion that you can carefully curate and surround yourself with attitudes that mirror your own is a new development, at least in the form of social media. i think a lot of the furor about what is or is not acceptable in a comedy context has to do with the shrinking micro-demographic effects of technology. tastes in music, movies, food, even gifs can be streamlined and tailored, so can comedy, as<a href="http://blog.pandora.com/2013/05/16/inside-the-comedy-genome-the-art-of-analyzing-humor/" target="_blank"> pandora is trying to break down comedy the way it does with music</a>. there is an old school comedy attitude of being able to kill in every room, but the nature of audiences is changing and becoming more niche.<br />
a night like last night made me consider that friction between two ideas. there is a self-contained bubble in the bay area punk world, and there is a bubble of ego around comedians that is resistant to criticism. it would be a shame for any person or genre to be written off as a lost cause rather than using that friction to engage some kind of dialogue. but i also get that it's tiring to be educating people on issues that seem fundamental and basic. some things are just etiquette (like not saying "faggot" if you are a straight dude), but those etiquette rules may not make sense to someone raised by wolves, ie. most comedians.<br />
i used to assume a lot of people involved in the music scene had similar ideals and were allies of a sort against a hegemonic mainstream, as vague as that was. the comedy scene represents a much larger, diverse cross section of attitudes that i had never encountered in the bay area. i don't take anyone's position for granted anymore, even my own. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-46252255700133437582013-04-21T20:32:00.000-07:002013-04-21T20:32:45.321-07:00Put Your Hands Together<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Put Your Hands Together live podcast was nice enough to ask me to be on, repping the Bay Area comedy scene along some other Bay Area greats.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-89430108669339532032013-04-05T11:08:00.001-07:002013-04-12T01:33:32.598-07:00SFMOMA | Comedy in the Gallery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I helped organize this and will be performing a sketch at 3 pm!<br />
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This afternoon SFMOMA invites a group of local comedians to deliver their irreverent, art-inspired humor in the presence of the work that inspired it.</div>
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Guest comedians include: George Chen, Jesse Elias, Sean Keane, Casey Ley, Brendan Lynch, Duat Mai, and Claire O'Kane.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-63572188113510865062013-04-01T23:05:00.001-07:002013-04-01T23:05:06.625-07:00Zum artists Youtube playlist<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLW-HQrFLjeB3_DNZWxIm9CA906a4Pjv_u" width="425"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-37456111422500547902013-03-12T17:38:00.002-07:002013-03-12T17:38:17.148-07:00WFMU interview up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Interview up at <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2013/03/an-interview-with-george-chen.html" target="_blank">WFMU's Beware Of The Blog</a>.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-376743644336842342013-03-03T17:49:00.001-08:002013-03-03T17:49:12.788-08:00IDWAL FISHER: Small Things On Sunday / ASC+Robert Horton<a href="http://idwalfisher.blogspot.com/2013/02/small-things-on-sunday-ascrobert-horton.html">IDWAL FISHER: Small Things On Sunday / ASC+Robert Horton</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12px;">it did its bit in helping me lift myself from my cups.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12px;">As did Trojandropper. Which is a virus, which seems fitting considering recent ailments. Horton and Campbell wanted to create a disco album and failed miserably. Its no bad thing for what they did create is something much better, a dance album of sorts but the kind that necessitates the ingestion of the kind of drugs you can only get at the vets. You can certainly move your body to it but only in a ‘oh I think I’ve been tasered’ kind of way. Like on the ‘Panharmonicon Particle Radio’ which sounds like a Ukranian folk record speeded up or an off his tits George Formby thraping the neck of his ukelele until his fingers bleed. All the tracks have some kind of Casio beat underpinning them whilst some have samples lifted from [I’m guessing] 80’s pop songs. Head and out-of-body, euphoric moment of total joy comes on the last track ‘Utterly Free World Without God’s Curse - Multi-Sky Wave’ where our collaborators mash up [I think thats the term thats in use these days] a truly gorgeous soul beat whilst slathering on some Neneh Cherry violin which mutates into a hydra of bleeps beats and frantic bobbings. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12px;">Apparently Horton and Campbell have never met, this being a collaboration via the etherwaves. I have no idea what Horton has been up to before but having listened to plenty of Campbell I feel its safe to say that both of these artists like working with beats and the layering of different sounds upon them, be it a snake charmers reed, some glitchy electronics, spacey effluvia, spazzy guitar, fiddles, trumpets, tapes, piano, percussion … you get the idea.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-14165897905804677542013-01-20T10:10:00.001-08:002013-01-20T10:10:03.680-08:00TicketWeb - Talkies feb 1<a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3263834&REFERRAL_ID=TW_ADD_EDP#.UPwyfiKHdEE.blogger">Check it out on TicketWeb - Talkies with George Chen with Josh Androsky and Cameron Esposito at Lost Weekend Video Cinecave on Fri Feb 01 2013</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-55566193058799735402013-01-19T16:16:00.003-08:002013-01-19T16:16:56.710-08:00BrokenI broke my fibula about a month ago.
I've been laid up with a cast and it has definitely slowed down a lot of areas in my life where I had been building momentum. I cancelled a bunch of comedy shows due to the inability to drive myself and occasionally from just being in too much pain to go out.
In the scheme of things, this accident (boring story I assure you) happened the same week that my friend <a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/12/cyclist_gets_trapped_under_cit.php">Jay was run over and dragged</a> under a San Francisco street sweeping truck. The details of that story are fairly gnarly and he's had a much worse month and a much longer recovery to look forward to, so it's given me a bit of perspective and pause. My tendency is to assume that there's some conspiracy set out to trip me up, but Jay's situation actually put my injury in perspective.
In any case, it's a setback but I've started to manage getting out to my shows on public transportation, in cabs, and with friends. Had a few close calls that may have damaged my leg further, but we will see the verdict next Wednesday when I go in for my follow up X-ray. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-19696293885708782632013-01-07T09:44:00.001-08:002013-01-07T09:44:59.151-08:00Interview with Anthony Bedard<a href="http://georgezum.podomatic.com/entry/2012-12-26T10_49_56-08_00">http://georgezum.podomatic.com/entry/2012-12-26T10_49_56-08_00</a><br />
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photo credit by RheaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459410405528012273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728913005682825176.post-75171002952469851102012-11-21T02:21:00.003-08:002015-01-27T15:26:54.081-08:00backing up 2007<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Digging through<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geochen/sets/72157600243076383/" target="_blank"> old flickr</a> tonight, I was reminded to check on some writing I may have done that is not well archived on the internet.</i><br />
<i>This was a post for the <a href="http://www2.sfbg.com/noise/2007/05/25/no-fun-faboo">SF Bay Guardian's blog back in 2007</a>, but this link is missing all the photos. Here's the text with photos in the proper order and better quality (where available). Photo credits are mine.</i><br />
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<em>Guardian</em> contributor George Chen made it to the No Fun Fest at the Hook in Brooklyn, May 17-20. Here are a few pics and thoughts from the brain behind Chen Santamaria.</div>
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This was John Wiese, Jesse Jackson (I am assuming that is his real name), and Corydon Ronnau (Obstacle Corpse). Jackson destroyed his already partial guitar, and some crazed fan walked off with the neck and guts. By the way, he would like them back - no questions asked.</div>
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Trevor Tremaine and Robert Beatty (also of festival headliners Hair Police) accompany Burning Star Core founder Spencer Yeh and Zaimph's Marcia Bassett (Hototogisu, Double Leopards, Zaika).</div>
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Gerritt Wittmer and Ryan have been touring across country with their respective solo acts (Gerritt and SIXES) and piling together as Deathroes. East Village Radio personality, AMillionKeys blogger and former SF ingenue Ceci Moss was in the house as well.</div>
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Leslie Keffer invited a bunch of women onstage, cranked a Madonna party song, and basically turned No Fun into "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." Partner-in-crime Rodger Stella glared menacingly and dropped his pants in the hip-hop fashion of the day. The ladies, including Tarantism's Angie Edwards, smacked him with a stuffed dolphin. Thank you, Freud.</div>
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Raionbashi and Kutzkelina were the highlight of my Friday evening. Female yodeling, processed and delayed. Raionbashi did push-ups as well. "We're here to pump you up!"</div>
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Twig Harper represents for the Nautical Almanac Sound System. That Brite Spots record looks dope. The DJ booth is like a cage.</div>
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Aaron Dilloway, a.k.a., Killoway, a.k.a., Hanson Records' fearless leader, nails it home on the last night of No Fun. One of the highlights.</div>
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I asked for some advice on "relaxing music" and these are some of the responses i got.<br />
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Comedian <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theericcash" target="_blank" title="Eric Cash facebook">Eric Cash</a> had a pretty eclectic past as a <a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2007/09/performance_anxiety.php" target="_blank">street performer</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketnumber9/sets/72157594452284128/" target="_blank">circus ringleader</a>, and punk singer before arriving at his current craft. We talk about <a href="http://ericcash.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">his life</a> bouncing around the US with a crew of <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781932360523?aff=geochen" target="_blank">tattooed, vomiting, and drugged out clowns</a>, berating SF tourists, shooting apples off people's heads Burroughs-style, painting on boobs in New Orleans, and how punk and comedy come to cross purposes. This past year his personal life has been in <a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/06/hollie_stevens_continued.php" target="_blank">tragic upheaval</a>. If you can imagine going through the darkest time of your life and getting on the mic in the midst of it, you have some inkling of the intensity and dedication he channels. He's <a href="http://www.craveonline.com/comedy/reviews/194807-first-looks-eric-cash-qanti-famousq-" target="_blank">working on his first album</a> while also starring as a super villain in a <a href="http://www.batgirlspoiled.com/" target="_blank">Batgirl</a> fan web series, appearing at San Francisco's first <a href="http://courtingcomedy.com/post/29652407098/san-francisco-comedy-and-burrito-festival" target="_blank">Comedy and Burrito Festival</a> October 11-13th, and burning up the <a href="https://twitter.com/ericcash" target="_blank">twittersphere</a>. (You know it's a good show when the stuff I left on the cutting room floor includes stories about sneaking into gigs as <a href="http://eyehategod.ee/" target="_blank">Eyehategod</a>'s roadie.)</div>
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