ESS is playing at Barfly tonight. I wonder what that stands for? Barfly is kinda on my radar lately. It seems like maybe a good place to have shows, despite its listless, cavernous vibe. Hey, there aren't a lotta venues so might as well give it a try. Mike C. was expressing some interest. I've gone to Shaun Slaughter's house music night (there were a crew of break dancers that would take turns going and it was just like being in an 80s movie) a reggae/dancehall night (totally dead but good music, who knew that Soriano's brother is a reggae dj?) and now, ESS.
A funny thing about the reggae night, if you know what DJ Wokstar looks like, is that he showed up with his wizard-ish dad who looks EXACTLY like him. Wokstar must have been raised a Rastafarian. Smiller, can you remind me of my rastafarian/tour de france joke?
yipes. I kinda can't believe I gave hideaway 3 1/2 stars. It really just fits in "good" firmly. I guess I must have done it because I thoughd they'd think 3 was bad. For the millionth time: I hate stars.
ReplyDeleteDid you notice that since I went to once a month they switched back to the star ratings of like "epic" and "authoritative" and crap? That's terrible. So I just rated it between "appealing" and "authoritative" Riiigghhttt
Don't shoot the messenger, but I think it was "what do you call a Rastafarian in the Tour de France?"
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I just made this one up: "What do you call a Rastafarian in a Sac band?"
"Rasta Far guy"
Rasta Nar Guy?
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Tim Soriano did a reggae show on KDVS for years (like, at least a decade).
ReplyDeleteHow did that show go? I wanted to go. ESS were pretty awesome the time I saw 'em at Luigi's, and I dug the King Dude LP from 2012. I'd been curious about that space, too, when I saw through the dividing door from Bacon & Butter.
the other side of the space had people doing salsa dancing.
ReplyDeleteI liked ESS. Jesse is a handsome, intense frontman. Just what every band needs. I didn't stay for king dude. I went to LowBrau on got wasted on complementary shots. I am not humblebragging, I am just saying I wouldn't do 3 shots of schnapps and drink a schnapps cocktail on my own. Ever.
LowBrau is getting on the ball with their schnapps program, revamping the cocktail list and getting an actual list of the schnapps. I had one called hog something and it was really good. Like a less obnoxious Jaeger.
Rasta Far Ride is the best one, IMHO
Neighbor-Scott played me the first Ween record. I could see the merits. Let's all get really blazed sometime and listen in the compound. Had you ever heard that supposedly Prince was a big Ween fan?
you've never gotten blazed and listened to Ween?
ReplyDeleteI thought that was just something everyone did at some point.
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no, but I think I did write them a fan letter when they were Sassiest cute boy of the month.
ReplyDeleteCute boy alert!
ReplyDeleteWho was the neighbor's Time Machine Tail? (the person you would go back in time to do it with)
ReplyDeleteAnybody out there read the Bolshoi Ballet acid attack article in the New Yorker? Man, there is a reason David Remnick is the editor. I wish he wrote more. Seriously elegant writing
i'm ok with ween.
ReplyDeleteif you're ok, I'm ok
ReplyDeletehas anyone noticed a baseball player on the A's that looks dead on like Wokstar?
ReplyDeleteUm... Wokstar's dad? Impossible as his father died when he was in his 20s.. He was NOT raised Rasta. He was born in Indiana. Fakaraian.
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