Via Mike Watt on Myspace:
Hi,
Here’s the info for the upcoming performance of: “Symphony No.13 (Hallucination City)” for 80 guitars, 20 basses and drums. The original version premiered at the former WTC on June 13, 2001. The revised version, in four movements, premiered at the Kasser Theater at Montclair St. University, NJ. on Feb. 4, 2006.
Continue reading “Calling local crazy guitarists: be in a Branca performance”
foo2rama points to a great LA Times article about Southern California’s own little dictatorship permanent oligarchic authoritarian state 19th century company town city of Vernon, a town of slaughterhouses, ammunition factories, and a geriatric Politburo.
The Strange Reaction mp3blog posted the tracks from Clockwork Orange County, a 1985 local bands compilation. I saw a lot of these acts at the Concert Factory etc. during my LA/OC commuter punker years. I think I know the guy on the cover, actually.
Some of the acts are familiar (D.I.) and others a bit more obscure (Love Canal).
I saw the Scarecrows do a decent cover of Joy Division’s “Shadowplay” in the basement of the Cathay de Grande in about ’85 with less than 10 people in the audience. Then they dropped their mic into the saxophone and things got ugly.
torgo_x forwarded the most clear and forceful explanation of how really bad mortgage ideas work, and why the current situation can’t end well. Math is hard, and optimism is easy. I’d guess a lot of the people who do this think of themselves as risk-takers who are going to win. I wish them all luck tripling their incomes in the next five years.
I wonder what the impact of a really bad housing crash would have in Orange County. Not only is real estate development a big local industry, but that whole slimy subprime mortgage business is mostly here too. So much so that we refer to big-spending young guys who party hard as “mortgage bro’s”.
If there’s no more money for the next swathe of terra cotta boxes in Temecula, and no more spiffs for selling predatory refi’s to hicks, and no more interest-only ARM crazy home loans to sell, that’s a big chunk of the local wealth just flat fucking gone. It could be as bad as the Great Defense Slump of the 1970s, which was a carnival of suicidal dads, boarded up ranch-style homes, and 40 year old draftsmen lining up for government aid and retraining programs. Oh by the way, those are gone now because we didn’t need them in the New Economy. Whoo boy.
A reliable source has revealed to me the following facts about the Costa Mesa City Planning Commission:
Salvage website has stuff the University is trying to unload. Good place to get an old van for $1000, a solid iron tank weight 1 ton for $1000, some USB cables, or a Coherent Enterprise Argon Ion Plasma Tube Laser! The last item almost works and is only $4500!
About 30% of my childhood was spent riding around in shitty beat-up station wagons going from one parking lot to another in a yellowish haze of smog. I got to relive a bit of that today because the nearby brushfires have once again turned everything yellow and a bit toxic, and I found a craptastic Chrysler Reliant K “woody” wagon in the Borders parking lot. It’s similar to the one I shot in Santa Ana before. Something about the way that smoky light hit the veneering and the frayed upholstery and the dirty glass caused me to have a Central Orange County Proustian Experience.
The rest of the shots are in this Flickr set.
Edit: It seems unlikely that this was a heron due to the rarity of white herons in this area. The editors egret the error.
A heron dived into my back yard this morning, ate both goldfish and a few of the mosquito-eater fish out of the pond, tried without success to walk out the back gate due to insufficient runway length, mesmerized the cat, and finally hopped on the roof and left. The rest of the photos are in the Heron Visit Flickr set
Do not eat any seafood that you know to have been distributed by Pacific Seafood of San Diego, California. Here’s why!
Via this bulletin from promed.
I don’t know where to start with this one, really. You guys go ahead.
wanted: Christian Surgeon – 37
Reply to: pers-128627397@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-01-26, 7:25AM PST
I want to meet a surgeon, preferably plastic surgeon in the NewPort beach area. Make me perfect so you will be proud. I love to go to the movies, dinning out, DVDs in, rainy nights, sunsets, dancing, my 2 wonderful kids (14 and 11), God, travel, sight seeing, shopping, horseback riding, SCUBA diving, skiing, going to the gym, relaxing at home, redecorating my humble apartment, good food, good wine and good movies. I enjoy the finer things in life.
Me: I am sweet, 5’8″, blond (gold) and blue, family oriented, also like to be alone, romance, roses and candles, aromatherapy and music.
I currently work in billing for a large clinic.
* this is in or around OC
* no — it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
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