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— February 14, 2013 5:20 p.m.
Swarmius-Haussmann septet: classic
not
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Outtakes: BIGGEST PAIN? Todd Rewoldt: “During a skateboarding practice, while coming back in from a fakie air off the quarter pipe, a BMX rider rode right into me. The right rear grind peg of his bike took a chunk of bone out of my shin, and it was a bloody mess. With no health insurance, we stuffed a bunch of gauze into the hole and wrapped it up with duct tape. Surprisingly, it hurt less the more I skated.” IN WHICH FICTIONAL UNIVERSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE? Isaac Allen: “A universe in which music and the arts are regarded as being just as important to our existence as water.” FAVORITE MOVIE BASED ON A BOOK? Joe Waters: “Moonrise Kingdom is so beautiful, nuanced, quirky, and big-hearted.” Isaac Allen: “Harry Potter was the first that I saw which somehow resembled exactly what I had imagined while reading it.”
— February 6, 2013 4:16 p.m.
Either/Or - Sounds Like San Diego or Roni Lee & Jennifer Batten?
Here's the set list from the Sounds Like San Diego show: 1) Neon Cough - Stone Temple Pilots / Big Bang Baby 2) Neon Cough - Rosie & The Originals / Angel Baby 3) Scott Mathiasen & The Shifty Eyed Dogs – Tom Waits / Ol’ 55 4) Scott Mathiasen & The Shifty Eyed Dogs – The Crawdaddy’s / You’re Gonna Need My Love Someday 5) Scott Mathiasen & The Shifty Eyed Dogs - John Stewart / Daydream Believer 6) The Comeuppance – Smoky Rogers / My Chickashay Gal 7) The Comeuppance – The Unknowns / Dream Sequence 8) Marie Haddad – The Monroes / What Do All The People Know 9) Marie Haddad with True Stories – Juice Newton / Loves Been A Little Bit Hard On Me 10) True Stories – Chris Hillman (The Byrds) / Have You Seen Her Face? 11) True Stories – Iron Butterfly / In A Gadda Da Vida INTERMISSION 12) Joey Harris – The Speedsters / When You Call Me 13) Joey Harris – Beat Farmers / The Girl I Almost Married 14) Banda Patrizia with Patric Petrie & Tim Foley – The Cascades / Rhythm of the Rain 15) Banda Patrizia, with Patric Petrie & Tim Foley – Jim Croce / I’ll Just Have To Say I Love You In A Song 16) Banda Patrizia, with Patric Petrie & Tim Foley – Scotch & Soda’ 17) Kelsea Rae Little – Blink 182 / All The Small Things 18) Kelsea Rae Little – Jewel / You Were Meant For Me 19) Jack Tempchin - (co-write with Chris Hillman) Desert Rose Band / You Can Go Home 20) Jack Tempchin - (co-write with Tom Waits) Tijuana 21) Jack Tempchin – Slow Dancin’ 22) Jack Tempchin – Peaceful Easy Feeling
— February 2, 2013 12:43 p.m.
Why everyone loves pizza
Now a broccoli pizza, THAT's a party, at least at our place...
— January 30, 2013 1:06 p.m.
Radio quiet
If SDG&E's "smart meters" really made her sick and that gets proven in court, this will be a very important case for many San Diegans -
— January 24, 2013 12:55 p.m.
Get well soon, Jeffrey Joe! Mira Mesa troubador hospitalized
JJ sent Reader readers this message update today: "Thank you SO much! Home & healing!" Yay team Jeffrey!
— January 19, 2013 7:33 p.m.
Cosplayers don't like the
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writer coming in costume
Cool stuff! Here's a piece I did awhile back about a local steampunk event and local SP band Steam Powered Giraffe (who can be seen frequently at the Zoo) -
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/mar/09/bl…
The Professor's all-steampunk home castle project is pretty amazing!
— January 18, 2013 3:29 a.m.
Leucadia’s Calypso Cafe closes
Tough times for local music venues - also closed or closing: the Whaling Bar, Eleven (formerly Zombie Bar, to reopen as the Void), 4th & B (now official, and for good, at least under that name), piano bar Casa de Loma, Canape's (San Marcos eatery w/occasional live music), and of course Anthology locked its doors at the end of last year. Also, Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre (formerly Coors Amphitheatre) is being renamed -- believe it or not -- Sleep Train Amphitheatre.
— January 17, 2013 8:04 p.m.
I found an 8mm film labeled MURDERS in my garage attic
Wild! I have a bunch of film cans full of undeveloped 16mm film that I found while refurbishing a former porn theater and peep show emporium in National City back in 1987. The markings on the plastic film packages look like dates and maybe locale abbreviations - the company that ran the previous place also made porn films, so I've always assumed that's what's in the cans. Who knows, tho, WHO might appear in the footage - future celebs, or just moonlighting strippers and the like? Without knowing more, I've never felt it worth the great expense of getting the films developed - not like I could market the contents myself (not without the model releases anyway....). Still, tho, an enduring mystery 'round here........
— January 17, 2013 7:01 p.m.
Cosplayers don't like the
Reader
writer coming in costume
It's interesting - and telling - how several commentators complain about the writer being "judgmental," who then pass their own disparaging judgments on that writer. One could pose to them the same questions they posited - did you RESEARCH the writer's frequent work for the Reader before commenting? Did you bother to get to KNOW her at all? Miss Braun has forged a niche at the paper as an observational "on the street" reporter whose conversational accounts tend to represent an "everyday person" POV. As such, one wouldn't expect her to self-school herself into an "expert" on cosplay before writing about what she sees of that scene (an admittedly small slice of the local incarnation of that scene, anyway). She found something interesting, talked to some people, and wrote about it. I too would love to read a more in-depth and in-the-know account of the imaginative cosplayers of SD (especially the steampunk crowd that has emerged from the last few years' of Comic-Cons and SP events) - that wasn't what this cover feature was intended to be, nor should anyone have expected it. The author was clear from the outset that she wasn't familiar with the scene or its participants before looking into it - the article was ABOUT her looking into it. And about what she found. It was an interesting read, and I don't think her interviewees were shown in a poor light. These are interesting, imaginative, and daringly gregarious young people (well, MOST were young), who represent just one emerging faction of a growing artform of self-expression. There are clearly many more fascinating stories to be told about their scene. But, for starters, this one was just fine.
— January 15, 2013 11:26 p.m.
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"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
http://media.sdreader.com/img/photos/2008/01/16/F…— February 14, 2013 5:20 p.m.
Swarmius-Haussmann septet: classic not classical
Outtakes: BIGGEST PAIN? Todd Rewoldt: “During a skateboarding practice, while coming back in from a fakie air off the quarter pipe, a BMX rider rode right into me. The right rear grind peg of his bike took a chunk of bone out of my shin, and it was a bloody mess. With no health insurance, we stuffed a bunch of gauze into the hole and wrapped it up with duct tape. Surprisingly, it hurt less the more I skated.” IN WHICH FICTIONAL UNIVERSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE? Isaac Allen: “A universe in which music and the arts are regarded as being just as important to our existence as water.” FAVORITE MOVIE BASED ON A BOOK? Joe Waters: “Moonrise Kingdom is so beautiful, nuanced, quirky, and big-hearted.” Isaac Allen: “Harry Potter was the first that I saw which somehow resembled exactly what I had imagined while reading it.”— February 6, 2013 4:16 p.m.
Either/Or - Sounds Like San Diego or Roni Lee & Jennifer Batten?
Here's the set list from the Sounds Like San Diego show: 1) Neon Cough - Stone Temple Pilots / Big Bang Baby 2) Neon Cough - Rosie & The Originals / Angel Baby 3) Scott Mathiasen & The Shifty Eyed Dogs – Tom Waits / Ol’ 55 4) Scott Mathiasen & The Shifty Eyed Dogs – The Crawdaddy’s / You’re Gonna Need My Love Someday 5) Scott Mathiasen & The Shifty Eyed Dogs - John Stewart / Daydream Believer 6) The Comeuppance – Smoky Rogers / My Chickashay Gal 7) The Comeuppance – The Unknowns / Dream Sequence 8) Marie Haddad – The Monroes / What Do All The People Know 9) Marie Haddad with True Stories – Juice Newton / Loves Been A Little Bit Hard On Me 10) True Stories – Chris Hillman (The Byrds) / Have You Seen Her Face? 11) True Stories – Iron Butterfly / In A Gadda Da Vida INTERMISSION 12) Joey Harris – The Speedsters / When You Call Me 13) Joey Harris – Beat Farmers / The Girl I Almost Married 14) Banda Patrizia with Patric Petrie & Tim Foley – The Cascades / Rhythm of the Rain 15) Banda Patrizia, with Patric Petrie & Tim Foley – Jim Croce / I’ll Just Have To Say I Love You In A Song 16) Banda Patrizia, with Patric Petrie & Tim Foley – Scotch & Soda’ 17) Kelsea Rae Little – Blink 182 / All The Small Things 18) Kelsea Rae Little – Jewel / You Were Meant For Me 19) Jack Tempchin - (co-write with Chris Hillman) Desert Rose Band / You Can Go Home 20) Jack Tempchin - (co-write with Tom Waits) Tijuana 21) Jack Tempchin – Slow Dancin’ 22) Jack Tempchin – Peaceful Easy Feeling— February 2, 2013 12:43 p.m.
Why everyone loves pizza
Now a broccoli pizza, THAT's a party, at least at our place...— January 30, 2013 1:06 p.m.
Radio quiet
If SDG&E's "smart meters" really made her sick and that gets proven in court, this will be a very important case for many San Diegans -— January 24, 2013 12:55 p.m.
Get well soon, Jeffrey Joe! Mira Mesa troubador hospitalized
JJ sent Reader readers this message update today: "Thank you SO much! Home & healing!" Yay team Jeffrey!— January 19, 2013 7:33 p.m.
Cosplayers don't like the Reader writer coming in costume
Cool stuff! Here's a piece I did awhile back about a local steampunk event and local SP band Steam Powered Giraffe (who can be seen frequently at the Zoo) - http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/mar/09/bl… The Professor's all-steampunk home castle project is pretty amazing!— January 18, 2013 3:29 a.m.
Leucadia’s Calypso Cafe closes
Tough times for local music venues - also closed or closing: the Whaling Bar, Eleven (formerly Zombie Bar, to reopen as the Void), 4th & B (now official, and for good, at least under that name), piano bar Casa de Loma, Canape's (San Marcos eatery w/occasional live music), and of course Anthology locked its doors at the end of last year. Also, Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre (formerly Coors Amphitheatre) is being renamed -- believe it or not -- Sleep Train Amphitheatre.— January 17, 2013 8:04 p.m.
I found an 8mm film labeled MURDERS in my garage attic
Wild! I have a bunch of film cans full of undeveloped 16mm film that I found while refurbishing a former porn theater and peep show emporium in National City back in 1987. The markings on the plastic film packages look like dates and maybe locale abbreviations - the company that ran the previous place also made porn films, so I've always assumed that's what's in the cans. Who knows, tho, WHO might appear in the footage - future celebs, or just moonlighting strippers and the like? Without knowing more, I've never felt it worth the great expense of getting the films developed - not like I could market the contents myself (not without the model releases anyway....). Still, tho, an enduring mystery 'round here........— January 17, 2013 7:01 p.m.
Cosplayers don't like the Reader writer coming in costume
It's interesting - and telling - how several commentators complain about the writer being "judgmental," who then pass their own disparaging judgments on that writer. One could pose to them the same questions they posited - did you RESEARCH the writer's frequent work for the Reader before commenting? Did you bother to get to KNOW her at all? Miss Braun has forged a niche at the paper as an observational "on the street" reporter whose conversational accounts tend to represent an "everyday person" POV. As such, one wouldn't expect her to self-school herself into an "expert" on cosplay before writing about what she sees of that scene (an admittedly small slice of the local incarnation of that scene, anyway). She found something interesting, talked to some people, and wrote about it. I too would love to read a more in-depth and in-the-know account of the imaginative cosplayers of SD (especially the steampunk crowd that has emerged from the last few years' of Comic-Cons and SP events) - that wasn't what this cover feature was intended to be, nor should anyone have expected it. The author was clear from the outset that she wasn't familiar with the scene or its participants before looking into it - the article was ABOUT her looking into it. And about what she found. It was an interesting read, and I don't think her interviewees were shown in a poor light. These are interesting, imaginative, and daringly gregarious young people (well, MOST were young), who represent just one emerging faction of a growing artform of self-expression. There are clearly many more fascinating stories to be told about their scene. But, for starters, this one was just fine.— January 15, 2013 11:26 p.m.