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Congrats on getting into Barnes& Noble! Sorry to hear you had trouble getting worthwhile critiques from your entries ("Too many semicolons"?!). It's almost as hard to GIVE valuable critiques as it is to get them, which is why I rarely do reviews for the Reader unless I come across something I genuinely like (or hate) enough to write about. Back when I was still in the comic book publishing biz, I did "portfolio reviews" at comic cons, until I finally realized I was mostly wasting people's time. Nothing can be accurately critiqued at a casual glance.
— October 10, 2012 7:32 p.m.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Jack!
Outtakes: FEARS OR PHOBIAS? “A lot of people don’t know that I’m a germaphobe.” USELESS (BUT INTERESTING) TRIVIA STUCK IN YOUR BRAIN? “Humans have three color receiving cones in our eyes. Most butterflies have six, and a mantis shrimp has sixteen.” FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK? “Monday, because the music industry is buzzing with productivity. Unless it’s the Monday following a festival.” BIGGEST LIE YOU EVER TOLD? “That I’ve never told a big lie.” WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME SOMEONE YELLED AT YOU? “If I answered this question honestly, she’d yell at me again.” IF YOU COULD READ OUR MINDS… “…I’d move to a foreign country where I don’t know anyone.”
— October 10, 2012 5:49 p.m.
Bunny v. Bunny
Update from Dustin Lothspeich - for his band's October 18 appearance at El Dorado, they'll be going under the name Boy King. As he explained to the Reader, "Well, we responded to their lawyer and basically said we could fight it in court, or they could settle with us and pony up some cash for our expenses for changing the name. However, we haven't heard back from them and we've got a show coming up on October 18 [at El Dorado]. It's [Boy King] what we're using at the moment to avoid any messes. We haven't officially announced anything on our Bunny Gang Facebook, and we're still leaving all that stuff up so their lawyers and all those folks can see it's there, but we don't really know what's going to happen, if anything, at this point."
— October 10, 2012 5:43 p.m.
Nudie Bar Opens Across Street from Chula Vista’s Bayfront
It's usually very difficult to get an "adult entertainment” and “cabaret/theater" permit approved in San Diego, other than in locales grandfathered by permits dating back 25 years or more. When Deja Vu Showgirls operator Harry Mohney wanted to open a new nudie "booth" operation on Barnett, near the airport, he was only able to do so by capitalizing on his longstanding "Jolar" nudie club near College and University (which in the late 70s/early 80s was located on Broadway) and an existing permit that had covered the Barnett locale's previous operators, a nudie "photo studio." Judging from Welty's quote, if his permits were issue based on describing the operation as "entertainment" and "cabaret/theater," MINUS the word "adult" with "entertainment," that's a blatant attempt to avoid being overseen by the city vice department. And any "adult entertainment" establishment with strippers must be overseen by vice, AND have the girls apply for and be granted a license by the city (which requires a police-run "orientation" class and criminal background check for all dancers). That said, tho, a "cabaret/theater" application SHOULD have been a dead giveaway as to the nature of the operation. That's the key phrase that all local strip clubs apply and operate under, and virtually no other business would apply thusly, at least since the demise of of burlesque theaters in San Diego (the last burlesque "cabaret" in SD, the Hollywood Burlesque theater downtown, was converted to the legit Off Broadway Theater in the 70s, tho it later became an x-rated moviehouse). Not to mention the business NAME, with “Showgirls” being an infamously dead giveaway as to the intended nature of the operation… This Reader feature “Battle of the Peeps” details the city’s strip club and peep show history –
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/…
While this one covers “Before it Was the Gaslamp” downtown, including the history of the (quite famous, in its day) Hollywood Burlesque cabaret -
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/…
— October 8, 2012 10:41 p.m.
Back to the Future--Mindy Returns to Hollywood
That Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval has no expiration date, so I have no doubt you'll catch that "second wind" with your writing. The LA TV show taping sounds intriguing - I'm no fan of reality shows, whether about dating or music-based, but mixing the two seems intriguing. What kind of contestant challenges will there be? Matching up fave tunes, making each other mix tapes, serenading one another, or what?? Perhaps you can post a report on your return --
— October 8, 2012 3:34 p.m.
A flock of butterflies and a grizzly bear: San Diego Symphony opening night
"Anyone in their right mind should want to come back for the whole season after hearing the orchestra tear Mussorgsky a new one..." Now THAT'S the kind of classical review quote you don't come across every day! Bravo SDS for once again reinventing itself and broadening its appeal for (and ability to sell tix to) new generations of music lovers -
— October 6, 2012 7:56 p.m.
Willie PSYCHO
I got a kick out of the half-assed way he "promoted" a local appearance by one of the two groups claiming to be the Sugarhill Gang, who are credited for one of the earliest hip-hop hits "Rapper's Delight" - his ads and flyers read "The Originnal Sugarhill Gang," misspelling "Original." I think to qualify as an actual "promoter," the most basic requirement should be an ability to spell the name of the act you're promoting...
— October 3, 2012 3:12 p.m.
Shepard Fairey's Graphic Activities
Worth noting is that SD's Black Market art crew had already been around a long time before Fairey's brief association with them, dating way back to punk concert flyers of the '80s and the locally-published Black Market magazine. Local cartoon legend Marc Rude did a lot of work with Black Market before his untimely passing (
http://www.blackmarketmagazine.com/Rude/Rude_Abou…
). BM honcho Carl Schneider even worked for Rock 'N' Roll Comics, at its latterday Miramar office in the mid 1990s. Tho Fairey's use of pre-existing images to build "new" graphics should usually be covered by "fair use" doctrines, due to the number of changes he applies to the source material to recast ala Warhol's infamous soup cans, it's a shame that truly innovative artists like Marc Rude are all-but overlooked and forgotten, while derivative so-sos like Fairey does guest spots on TV shows like the Simpsons.
— October 3, 2012 12:37 p.m.
Lana Del Rey on SNL: Coup or Crap? Local Reaction
Eight months later, and it looks like more and more people are coming around to my way of thinking, judging from Miss Del Rey's increasingly successful career. The new Blue Velvet ads are merely mesmerizing, and I STILL maintain that her debut album cuts like "Off to the Races" seem to me like the kind of music Kate Bush would be making, if she'd been born 30 years later and raised on hip-hop instead of Pink Floyd and Genesis -
— September 29, 2012 5:57 p.m.
The Bunny Was Fine
The Reader's Jam Session blog has breaking news on a member of Flogging Molly apparently issuing Bunny Gang a cease and desist order over the band name -
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session…
— September 26, 2012 2:28 p.m.
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God Wants Me to Write
Congrats on getting into Barnes& Noble! Sorry to hear you had trouble getting worthwhile critiques from your entries ("Too many semicolons"?!). It's almost as hard to GIVE valuable critiques as it is to get them, which is why I rarely do reviews for the Reader unless I come across something I genuinely like (or hate) enough to write about. Back when I was still in the comic book publishing biz, I did "portfolio reviews" at comic cons, until I finally realized I was mostly wasting people's time. Nothing can be accurately critiqued at a casual glance.— October 10, 2012 7:32 p.m.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Jack!
Outtakes: FEARS OR PHOBIAS? “A lot of people don’t know that I’m a germaphobe.” USELESS (BUT INTERESTING) TRIVIA STUCK IN YOUR BRAIN? “Humans have three color receiving cones in our eyes. Most butterflies have six, and a mantis shrimp has sixteen.” FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK? “Monday, because the music industry is buzzing with productivity. Unless it’s the Monday following a festival.” BIGGEST LIE YOU EVER TOLD? “That I’ve never told a big lie.” WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME SOMEONE YELLED AT YOU? “If I answered this question honestly, she’d yell at me again.” IF YOU COULD READ OUR MINDS… “…I’d move to a foreign country where I don’t know anyone.”— October 10, 2012 5:49 p.m.
Bunny v. Bunny
Update from Dustin Lothspeich - for his band's October 18 appearance at El Dorado, they'll be going under the name Boy King. As he explained to the Reader, "Well, we responded to their lawyer and basically said we could fight it in court, or they could settle with us and pony up some cash for our expenses for changing the name. However, we haven't heard back from them and we've got a show coming up on October 18 [at El Dorado]. It's [Boy King] what we're using at the moment to avoid any messes. We haven't officially announced anything on our Bunny Gang Facebook, and we're still leaving all that stuff up so their lawyers and all those folks can see it's there, but we don't really know what's going to happen, if anything, at this point."— October 10, 2012 5:43 p.m.
Nudie Bar Opens Across Street from Chula Vista’s Bayfront
It's usually very difficult to get an "adult entertainment” and “cabaret/theater" permit approved in San Diego, other than in locales grandfathered by permits dating back 25 years or more. When Deja Vu Showgirls operator Harry Mohney wanted to open a new nudie "booth" operation on Barnett, near the airport, he was only able to do so by capitalizing on his longstanding "Jolar" nudie club near College and University (which in the late 70s/early 80s was located on Broadway) and an existing permit that had covered the Barnett locale's previous operators, a nudie "photo studio." Judging from Welty's quote, if his permits were issue based on describing the operation as "entertainment" and "cabaret/theater," MINUS the word "adult" with "entertainment," that's a blatant attempt to avoid being overseen by the city vice department. And any "adult entertainment" establishment with strippers must be overseen by vice, AND have the girls apply for and be granted a license by the city (which requires a police-run "orientation" class and criminal background check for all dancers). That said, tho, a "cabaret/theater" application SHOULD have been a dead giveaway as to the nature of the operation. That's the key phrase that all local strip clubs apply and operate under, and virtually no other business would apply thusly, at least since the demise of of burlesque theaters in San Diego (the last burlesque "cabaret" in SD, the Hollywood Burlesque theater downtown, was converted to the legit Off Broadway Theater in the 70s, tho it later became an x-rated moviehouse). Not to mention the business NAME, with “Showgirls” being an infamously dead giveaway as to the intended nature of the operation… This Reader feature “Battle of the Peeps” details the city’s strip club and peep show history – http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/… While this one covers “Before it Was the Gaslamp” downtown, including the history of the (quite famous, in its day) Hollywood Burlesque cabaret - http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/…— October 8, 2012 10:41 p.m.
Back to the Future--Mindy Returns to Hollywood
That Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval has no expiration date, so I have no doubt you'll catch that "second wind" with your writing. The LA TV show taping sounds intriguing - I'm no fan of reality shows, whether about dating or music-based, but mixing the two seems intriguing. What kind of contestant challenges will there be? Matching up fave tunes, making each other mix tapes, serenading one another, or what?? Perhaps you can post a report on your return --— October 8, 2012 3:34 p.m.
A flock of butterflies and a grizzly bear: San Diego Symphony opening night
"Anyone in their right mind should want to come back for the whole season after hearing the orchestra tear Mussorgsky a new one..." Now THAT'S the kind of classical review quote you don't come across every day! Bravo SDS for once again reinventing itself and broadening its appeal for (and ability to sell tix to) new generations of music lovers -— October 6, 2012 7:56 p.m.
Willie PSYCHO
I got a kick out of the half-assed way he "promoted" a local appearance by one of the two groups claiming to be the Sugarhill Gang, who are credited for one of the earliest hip-hop hits "Rapper's Delight" - his ads and flyers read "The Originnal Sugarhill Gang," misspelling "Original." I think to qualify as an actual "promoter," the most basic requirement should be an ability to spell the name of the act you're promoting...— October 3, 2012 3:12 p.m.
Shepard Fairey's Graphic Activities
Worth noting is that SD's Black Market art crew had already been around a long time before Fairey's brief association with them, dating way back to punk concert flyers of the '80s and the locally-published Black Market magazine. Local cartoon legend Marc Rude did a lot of work with Black Market before his untimely passing (http://www.blackmarketmagazine.com/Rude/Rude_Abou…). BM honcho Carl Schneider even worked for Rock 'N' Roll Comics, at its latterday Miramar office in the mid 1990s. Tho Fairey's use of pre-existing images to build "new" graphics should usually be covered by "fair use" doctrines, due to the number of changes he applies to the source material to recast ala Warhol's infamous soup cans, it's a shame that truly innovative artists like Marc Rude are all-but overlooked and forgotten, while derivative so-sos like Fairey does guest spots on TV shows like the Simpsons.— October 3, 2012 12:37 p.m.
Lana Del Rey on SNL: Coup or Crap? Local Reaction
Eight months later, and it looks like more and more people are coming around to my way of thinking, judging from Miss Del Rey's increasingly successful career. The new Blue Velvet ads are merely mesmerizing, and I STILL maintain that her debut album cuts like "Off to the Races" seem to me like the kind of music Kate Bush would be making, if she'd been born 30 years later and raised on hip-hop instead of Pink Floyd and Genesis -— September 29, 2012 5:57 p.m.
The Bunny Was Fine
The Reader's Jam Session blog has breaking news on a member of Flogging Molly apparently issuing Bunny Gang a cease and desist order over the band name - http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session…— September 26, 2012 2:28 p.m.