Tuesday, March 06, 2012

siiiiicckkkkk


Hey guys, remember this? What a rush.

SacPress published a MidMo story.  The quote at the end is really funny!  Better to just pull a quote from FB rather than use that one.

Well well well.  The No Bunny/MOM/G.Green show...I am so mad at myself that I was in a bad mood and couldn't enjoy it to its fullest.  I guess I did go out four nights in a row, and maybe tonight, for the La Sera show.  Anyway, G. Green was tight.  Really good.  MOM let it all hang out and I always think she can't surprise me and then she does.  She started into her Spirit In The Sky jam, and she was swinging her mic around, and exactly with the beat she accidentally cracked the light fixture over her head and glass rained down.  Then she danced in the glass (people rushed to cover it up quickly) and starting spreading bloody footprints through the crowd.  There were some pretty bro-ey college students there and it was fun to watch their horrified faces as they tried to figure out what was going on.  Then Tony from No Bunny's band painted Dan's (ex Makout Party RIP) with MOM's blood.  That was pretty siiiiiiiickkkk.  No Bunny was a phenomenon as usual, although it got so fucking hot in there I had to bail for a minute.  I love when he mixes Surfin' Bird in because I feel like it's a mini Cramps tribute.

Pictures after the jump! Sadly, not of the show!

This is Zha Jhiang Mian from Hometown Chinese in Davis.  They have Taiwanese dishes there, and this is one.  It's wheat noodles topped with ground pork and tofu with fermented soy bean sauce.  It was really salty, oily, and spicy.  It's a huge bowl and I had a hard time not eating the whole damn thing.  Hometown Chinese also has good dumplings.  They had a special that was written in Chinese characters and I asked what it was.  The owner said "you don't want to know". When I insisted I did she said it was pork stomach. So if you like that, they have it.
I ate at Tres Hermanas a few weeks ago and was pretty psyched on it, so I hit it up again.  That's a Mexican margerita, which means it's made with Squirt instead of sweet and sour mix.  I hate sweet and sour mix.
I was going to take a picture of the chili verde but I forgot and ate it all (I'm sensing a theme here).  It wasn't as good or spicy this time.  Still, it beats the hell out of 524 for Mexican-American style food these days.  It also is way more expensive.

Hummel whipped up some good waffles on Sunday at Bows.
At Pangaea, Rob had a blowout to try to blow all the kegs he had from beer week.  It was packed.  What a neighborhood hub! So awesome.
This is an Oppigard's Well Hopped Lager.
Rob bought a huge smoker and is now doing BBQ.  This is a chicken plate.  I really loved the broccoli salad. It's kind of grandma-style, with shredded carrots, bacon, and dried cranberries.
Ribs.  These plates were ten bucks.  A good deal and a great fit with beer.
I finally ate the ital food at Delta of Venus.  Thumbs down.  The spicy tempeh was in kind of a sweet and sour sauce, the greens tasting like nothing but margarine, and the beans in the beans in rice were hard, dry little rocks.

19 comments:

beckler said...

goddamnit, the #1 issue of Lucky Peach (which I threw away because it made me mad) is going for like a hundred bucks now! There's an issue on ebay with 1 day left with 15 bids and it's at 80 bucks.

Liv Moe said...

i loaned my copy to tim to show to Judd. fingers crossed it's still kickin' around.... did you look at amazon? $%&*((*%^*&%^%(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Peach-Issue-Chris-Ying/dp/1936365464

Liv Moe said...

Tim found it!!!!!!!!! YEA!!!!

beckler said...

There's a chance it's in a stack by my front door. Who knows if it's selling at those amazon prices, though. I feel like ebay is a better gauge. Also, people may flood the market with it soon, better get it up there!

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Anonymous said...

Hopefully you find it so you can spend a year or so saying "fuck, I need to put this on ebay!".

-miller

Anonymous said...

I discovered Lucky Peach 'cause there was one at the bar at Magpie for a while. A very short while, 'cause somebody grabbed that sucka. There was a hard copy of Nature (the crazy expensive science one) too, also yoinked. Dang it people!
------------------W

beckler said...

hey sacpunkshows, you'll appreciate this: at the show last night, I heard two young guys discussing you and that you were a "real guy, with kids". They seemed suprised.

Anonymous said...

Johnny Crasharama is the speaker at this month's living Library at Time Tested: Sunday, March 18, 7PM

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-omf

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beckler said...

Blueberry-
Anyone who openly admits he/she (I'm gonna make a wild guess at he here) is a troll isn't welcome around here. This last comment wasn't super troll-y, but I'm just tired of your baiting.

Anonymous said...

Fair enough. I'll leave you in peace.

blueberry

Anonymous said...

Mom is a performance artist who knows exactly what she is doing. Her shows are about breaking the societal rules about what's proper, and playing with our preconceptions about female nudity and sexuality.

I think your squeamishness about the 'harm' is your hang up - not hers. I say that as a performer who has come away from shows with bloody open wounds - it's no big deal and i usually don't think about it after I get the blood stopped - this is not life threatening stuff. it's not like Mom is cutting herself open with a chainsaw.

-omf

Anonymous said...

nevermind, the Mom comment is gone.. funny, on the way home from Davis I was thinking that Mom is one of my absolute fave Sacto acts... and that Rick Berger is another. which seems very weird to me. in short, MOM rules.

-omf

DJ Rick said...

Hmmm... Should I be more bummed to have missed NoBunny last night (I found out about it too late), or this comment? (I've been looking for a good fight!)

beckler said...

It was your typical No Bunny house show. He's such a pro. He can whip any group into a frenzy.

Anonymous said...

The show was raging! G Green hit that sweet spot between their punk & pop sets.

-miller

DJ Rick said...

I hope this Friday's show at Davis Bike Collective's a rager when one of the best bands in Australia (or the world)--Electric Jellyfish--meets two awesome bands from France, the Feeling of Love and Delacave.

The French bands were very good at Bows last week, but they both said they'd like to play one show on this tour that's more of a rager. I think Feeling of Love especially are well-suited to making that happen in a room like Davis Bike Collective, which is as close to the vibe of The Hub as any place since The Hub. Cool BYOB space. Right size for anything with 50-100 fans to party down in.

Delacave do the quirky French-pop-inflected synth/postpunk w/ female vocals a'la Yellow Marble Giants meets Cheveu...or something like that. I'm sure people will dig 'em immensely.

Feeling of Love are killer rockin' garagepunk with psych overtones. Fans of Oh Sees will love 'em. They got more Jon Spencer in the guitar sound, and a little Krautiness, too. Equal parts primal and arty, and with great songs/hooks.

Electric Jellyfish are so so great! Kinda epic psych-punk for people who think the 2nd and 3rd Wipers albums are the best, yet also definitively Aussie.

I was seriously thinking of adding a couple dollars to the cover charge, but we'll keep it at $5 min. and say "$5-$15 sliding scale" if anyone feels inclined and is able to kick down some extra to make up for the 30,000 miles of airfare plus daily gasoline and car rental fees these foreign bands are blowing on their tours.

Sacramento Punk Shows said...

damn I've been outed. So much for my attempts to maintain the front of being a fake guy, with hamsters.