For Migs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYapljom1XI

IMPORTANT

Kurt (our landlord in case you didn't know) called today saying he has been getting phone calls from the city of San Luis with reports that the house look's really messy again (he mentioned our piles of recycling in the driveway / messy porch etc) and that he is coming to check on the house this Monday. They also told him that there is serious suspicion of more than 5 people (legal limit in slo) living in the house so if you are hanging out all day anyways you should at least do some of this stuff...

-if you are drinking on the porch make sure to clean up your cans, bottles, plates and cigarettes after you are done

-try not to hang out on the porch late at night, especially during the week, our neighbor is crazy

-try not to play music on the porch, especially after 5 when the neighbor is home. it doesn't matter if it is just an acoustic guitar, she hates us and has/will call the cops

-if you are working on a bike make sure to throw out your old tube/tire/bar tape, put tools back, keep stuff organized. don't lean bikes against the fence (yes the neighbor also complains about how this is somehow rotting her side of the fence), put them in a rack

-don't bring back "cool" things you find in the dumpster especially if you aren't going to use it

thanks
-Miguel

We forgot

Sorry, I didn't say this in the top ten, but y'all are welcome to come stay with us in Austin whenever you want. I know that it's hard to get out here, cuz of money or transportation, or whatever, but if anyone can, it's totally worth it. Austin is super rad, and we really miss everyone. Especially Miguel. And Willie. Who said they're coming out for sxsw. And Windy.

Anyway, we'll show you a good time, and we're working on getting our own house, instead of our dumpy apartment so there's more room for people. Also, if anyone wants to play shows out here, we would love to help set stuff up.

We love and miss you fools. Every one. Think of us when you're too drunk to stand up.

loves,
bs.

inspiring beards

beards
cecilia (with a cold)

Top 10 Beards Of All Time:

1. Osama Bin Laden/ Miguel ((the Miguel from the tall can in the kitchen))
2. Robin Williams in Jumanji
3. Karl Marx/Jack Passion
4. Hagrid/Michael
5. Santa Claus
6. Fidel Castro
7. Blackbeard the Pirate
8. Che Guevara
9. Sean Connery
10. Saddam Hussein pre-Operation Iraqi Freedom/Francisco

Worst Beard ever goes to Al Gore's post-Inconvenient Truth god awful excuse for facial hair.


((obviously much time and thought has gone into this and it is still a work in progress))

((tell me about beards that have inspired you and ill add them to this important list))

Helping out the SARP Center

The SARP Center (Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention) is moving offices from the small one they currently occupy at the intersection of Los Osos Valley Road and Madonna to a bigger office right next to the Women's Shelter - this move is really beneficial for multiple reasons. I know a lot of you support the idea of community in a DIY music sense, but doing help for the full community at large is far more imperative, and helping a valuable resource that gives so much to people would be really great. Without a lot of volunteer help, the SARP Center will have a hard time transitioning, and this could negatively affect the performance during this transition - in simple words, they won't be able to help those who need it when they have to shuffle desks around!

I know some of you have gotten job hours cut back due to the economy, and some of you have school hours that allow for help during normal work hours, and some of you don't have any school or job at all - all of which indicate that you could be more than available to help me help the SARP Center in their move! I'll post specific times as to when they will be moving, but it is in the next couple of weeks.



Also, volunteer training just finished for the winter quarter, but if anyone is interested in becoming a volunteer for the SARP Center spring training will be coming up in a few months. You can do a lot of different things: running the crisis hotline, helping presentations at school classrooms about everything from safe/consensual sex to gender equality, helping run women's self-defense courses, doing office work and putting together pamphlets/packets/information, being an advocate for rape victims at CMC, and more. Not everything you can do requires a lot of intensity - any small thing helps. Helping the women's self defense is available to women only, and being a CMC advocate is available to men only, but everything else is free to everyone. If you're interested in working with another beneficial community organization I have worked with a couple, and know a lot more, and would be more than happy to point you in the right direction.

~Max

Marina's top 5 shows of 2008...

...cuz I only went to 5.

1. 88 Boadrums, Los Angeles
The Boredoms put on a free concert at the La Brea tar pits on 08.08.08 at 8:08 pm. It was a fucking crazy 88 minute-long drum orgy. It featured drummers from Hella, Entrance, Tussle and Mika Miko. Drum Orgy. Nike sponsored it and supposedly gave away free t-shirts. I didn't get one.

2. No Age, Mika Miko, Black Shirts at the art center.
Remember that random dude getting stoned in the middle of No Age playing? And Black Shirts singing "bossy".

3. ShellShag and King Brothers at Retrospect.
This was an okay show. Japanese bands never disappoint.

4. Avila Reggae Fest.
Drank tons of beer in the sun and danced and smoked joints with errrvrybody. I think it was Stephen Marley playing. Then we were all to drunk so we hung out in Avila until midnight then got a ride to Sunshine Donuts and proceeded to eat a million goddamn donuts.

5. EDC in Los Angeles.
This was a crazy fucked up rave at the USC football stadium with 65000 spectators. I don't know if this is technically a concert but Moby played and hes kinda cool in a high school band teacher sorta way. Spent the next day getting lost in Venice Beach, and riding home in a car full of gals with no more serotonin in their brains. I was way too overstimulated that weekend but it was epic.

Number one is in the right spot but the two through five aren't in any order. Im just that confusing.

FREE

BEER

letter to lawrence and cecilia

i have some tax form that i need to mail to cecilia, and i'm going to mail it sometime in the next few days, probably on thursday. if you have anything that you want to through into the envelope that i'm sending, then you're more than welcome, just give it to me soon.


willie

Tonight and tonight only

I made a cake for a non-profit event. I have a lot of left over frosting. I will be by the house a little after 10 PM. Either have a pastry in need of sugar coating, or a big spoon and a grin, for there must be none frosting left by the night's end.

~Max

Chaos in Tejas

Hey fuckers, windy said we could put our top tenz on here, and I know everyone is checking this thing every second
To see when we put ours up. So here we go, Black Shirts top 10 of 200-wasticate:

Top Albums
(probably you guys missed out on these cuz they weren't released on cassette)
Deerhunter- Microcastle
Nick Cave - dig Lazarus dig
Ruby Suns - sea lion
Portishead - third
Kassin+2 - futurismo
Abe vigoda - skeletons
Black angels - directions...
Fleet foxes
King Kahn and the shrines - this is
Breeders - mountain battles

Top songs
"bear face" abe vigoda
"teen creeps" no age
"a milli" lil Wayne
"womanizer" britney spears
"bossy" black shirts

Top Discoveries
1) Monopolowa vodka. It's super cheap and made from potatoes, so it doesn't give you a gnarly hangover!
2) "the preacher" comic series. Holy effing ess,eff me in the ayyyyy. So good. So wicked and filthy.
3) john came - "fear" and "vintage violence"
4) alice Coltrane and pharaoh sanders - voyage to whatever it's called
5) red honeymoon. Nick cave, roland s Howard,Tracy pew, and lydia lunch--together, forever
6) Greek gods honey-flavored yogurt
7) whole foods!!!
8) learning to say "y'all"
9) learning to type on an iPod touch, as we no longer have a computer due to negligence in the "kitten-rearing" dept.

Milos top ten from 2008 and such...

top ten albums, not all are from 2008...deal wit it!
1.des ark:battle of the beards
2.mt eerie:lost wisdom
3.woelv:most
4.the bananas:new animals
5.viking moses:sandstorms
6.iron lung:sexless/nosex
7.paul baribeau:grand ledge
8.frenchquarter:self titled
9.shorebirds:gonna get ugly
10.dystopia:self titled

top six shows, oawwwww
1.knuxxx fest1
2.revivr(santa cruz)
3.mt eerie(santa cruz)
4.viking moses/golden ghost(santa cruz)
5.walls(san francisco)
6.stella(l.a.)

top 5 places to eat
1.yatagans(manhattan,n.y.)
2.tonitas
3.follow your heart wraps(co-op)
4.voodoo donuts(pdx)
5.india kart(pdx)

theres probably alot of really random shit i could write about...but these are the most relevant and possibly interesting i could come up with...up the punx!
-m.k.

Dustin's Best of 2008

Best Albums 2008
(In reverse, inverted order)

1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. King Khan & The Shrines - The Supreme Genius Of
3. Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts
4. Walkmen - You & Me
The Black Trifecta:
5. Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
6. Black Keys - Attack & Release
7. Black Shirts - Abra-Cadabra Mother Fuckers EP
8. Rodriguez - Cold Fact (Reissue, but new to me)
9. Magnetic Fields - Distortions
10. Bill Dixon - With Exploding Star Orchestra
11. Nobunny - Love Visions
12. Diamanda Galas - Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
13. Eddie Bo - In The Pocket With Eddie Bo!
14. Sam Cooke - One Night Stand: Same Cooke Live At The Harlem Square (Reissue of a reissue)

Albums I have not heard enough of but will likely make best of 2008 in 2009:
-David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
-Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls


Best Discoveries 2008
-Mas Rock 'n Roll (Electro Harmonix) Latin garage/punk! Listen to anything on this label. Best compilation I've heard in years.
-Los Siacos
-Los Holys
-Elizabeth Cotton - Shake Sugaree
-The Sonics
-Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger (I listened to this every time I worked in the Jazz room for like two months)


Best Shows 2008
1. Sleepy Sun
2. Black Shirts, Mika Miko, No Age, Miguel crowd surfing
3. The Weeds
4. Black Shirts @ Zeb's: Debut of the kitty mask
5. Nobunny
I know I know but I didn't leave this forsaken town once last year.


Best Excuses To Avoid Having Dinner With Tasha Powers After Work 2008
(I actually used every one of these)

1. I don't like hanging out with people
2. I'm really tired
3. I have to run to Urban Outfitter for some paperwork
4. I have food at home that's about to go bad
5. I'm too hungry to wait for you to cook food. I'm going to Tonitas
6. I'm a loner, I don't hang out with people very often
Here's the best, I used these four in a row after walking home with her after work:
7. TP: What are you doing? You should just come over and I'll make dinner.
7. Me: I'm not hungry.
7. TP: Well we should play music together.
7. Me: I don't play in front of people, I'm not very good.
7. TP: Come on it's just me.
7. Me: Look I have lot's of paperwork to do at home.
7. TP: Well having a glass of wine really quick will relax you before all that stresful work.
7. Me: I don't feel like drinking.


Best Ways To Ruin A Party 2007-Present
1. Fight bros for 20 minutes with bricks, have cops called (w/loft @ Elijah's)
2. Climb onto neighbors tool shed, have cops called (w/ Carl @ Nevon's)
3. Stand at door and tell people they aren't invited inside (w/ Black Shirts @ Dwayne's)
5. Introduce yourself to people you don't know and steal their alcohol from their hands when you go to shake it. Don't give it back and drink it all. After cleaning out party promptly leave. (w/ Caleb Nichols @ Graham's aka Franciso's new house)
7. Make fun of everyone and tell people you're the music director to scare the shit out of trainees (every trainee party)
9. Storm into party dj'd with ipod. Put on Black Flag. Mosh off the couch and walls until everyone stops dancing and goes home. (w/ Garland @ KCPR Stephanie's)
9. Destroy the party donkey and steal/break Monet prints (w/ Francisco @ Obama's)
10. Find KCPR Stephanie dressed like Miss Teen American Apparel and "thizzing" out of her mind. Attempt to make out with her. Listen to everybody say per usual "no one can touch her she's too fucked up to know any better. That would be taken advantage of her." Think to myself she's like this every single day anyways, she just wants it really bad. Procede to take her to the bathroom and have sex with her in the butt anyways. Cum on her face. Fulfill my duty for the "up the butt" party theme. Go outside and boo all the dj's until Franciso goes on. Dance to Arabian Prince's - "Situation Hot" Get banned from all KCPR related events. (At trainee party tonight in about three hours! YES)

Here's to 2009

Top X for MMIIX

Daryl



Top 10 12"s
10. Carbonas, Self-titled
09. Loser Life, My Hell
08. Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Primary Colours
07. Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Introducing…
06. Killer Dreamer, 1,000 Years of Servitude
05. The Wax Museums, Self-titled
04. Shorebirds, It's Gonna Get Ugly
03. Tim Version, The Decline of the Southern Gentleman
02. The Bananas, New Animals
01. Dillinger Four, Civil War

Top 10 7"s
10. Needles 7"
09. First 2 Estranged 7"s
08. Cola Freaks, Nej! 7"
07. The Libyans, Welcome to the Neighborhood 7"
06. Both Young Offenders 7"s
05. Audacity / Makeout Party, split 7"
04. Blotto / Ringer, split 7"
03. All Shang-A-Lang 7"s
02. Cheeky, Choke on a Cheeseburger 7"
01. Sneaky Pinks, Loner w/a Boner 7"

My sincerest regardes to all those important works of art that were released on 10", 6", 5", or any other eclectic-yet costly-diameters of vinyl. And sorry as well for grouping bands' 7"s in one listing. They all rule, and that's a promise.

free bro tub... ashleys only

check it

Talk About Taking Responsibility

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5570314.ece

I'm sure if this was in the US the people responsible would have just been awarded.

jawsh's 10 most influential albums of '08

(in order)
1. VOID - faith/void/faith split
2. Descendents - two things at once
3. The Dickies - the incredible shrinking dickies
4. Mika Miko - 666
5. The Vicious - alienated
6. The Dead Milkmen - big lizard in my backyard
7. Ceremony - violence violence
8. Choking Victim - no gods, no masters
9. Blink 182 - dude ranch
10. Blink 182 - buddha

Francisco's Top of '08

Top of ‘08 (In order….cuz I got ballz)

1- John Baker Tapes Volume 1 & 2 (Trunk)

2- Bill Dixon w/the Exploding Star Orchestra (Thrill Jockey)

3- Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp Records)

4- Arabian Prince - Innovative Life (Stones Throw)

5- Soulja Boy - Unsigned and Still Major Da Album Before Da Album (not trying to be cute or funny, this is some of the most original music made this year; he is only 17 years old too!!) (Self released)

6- William Parker - Double Sunrise over Neptune (Aum Fidelity)

7- George Mitchell Collection Vol. 1-45 (Fat Possum)

8- 78s From The EMI Archive (Honest Jon’s)

9- Blank dogs - On Two Sides (Troubleman Unlimited)

10- Peter Brötzmann/Uuskyla – Born Broke (Atavistic)

*I did not include any full length reissues or else Lula Cortes and Orchestre Regional De Kayes would have been in the top 2 positions.

Top 5 Musical Experiences (In order)

1- Digging in Mexico D.F. and bringing back a suitcase full of records.

2- Seeing Pharaoh Sanders in LA perform two shows, getting my copy of Black Unity signed, and, OMG, shaking his hand!!

3- Seeing Cecil Taylor live at Grace Cathedral (which has 7 secs of natural reverb) in SF

4- Driving back home for the holidays while trippin ballz and listening to Barry White’s album “The Icon is Love” twice in a row.....blowing my fucking mind

5- Finding one of my most desired lps in Amoeba SF (Celly Cel’s Killa Kali in mint condition mind you)

Biggest Disappointment of ‘08

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

April 22nd?

That band Furnace (they played here around March last year with Capsule) want to play here on the 22nd with another band. That's on a Wednesday, aka New Noise. Should I tell them they can play the station with whoever else, or should we look for a venue, or should we tell them to play somewhere else?

that's a cute picture, is that willies tongue?

our new address is
Rue Jenatzy 25
1030 Brussels
Belgium

now, send us lots of love!
-c c c

top 10 list - foods i discovered in 2008 that don't exist in europe

1. nooch!
2. earth balance
3. kale
4. dumpstered sourdough bread
5. vegan sloppy joes by willie
6. buchon mush
7. burritos
8. veganaise
9. tofurky soy sausage
10. soy jerky

why do europeans not have the vegetarian thing down?
miss you all!

-C

top 10 lists of 2008

i figured that it would be pretty cool if everyone posted their top 10 or so favorite of whatever for 2008. then we can check out what everyone got into during the year and hopefully get into it as well. i am planning on just doing top musical releases, in the hopes that maybe someone else might be intrigued by some of the stuff that i was intrigued by. likewise, it would be cool if people posted top however-many of other kinds of shit as well as music. i was hoping to put up an example of a different type of top ten, but i think that everyone could come up with a better idea that suits them well. so here are mine:


top 20 albums of 2008 (in no particular order, besides the bananas being at the top)

the bananas "new animals"
the measure [sa] "one chapter in the book"
god equals genocide "life of doubt"
shorebirds "s/t 7"" and "it's gonna get ugly
sex/vid "communal living"
shang-a-lang "summertime"
cheeky "choke on a cheeseburger"
todd congelliere "people in the sand e.p."
the underground railroad to candyland "bird roughs"
shellshag "destroy me, i'm yours"
dillinger four "civil war"
fucked up "the chemistry of common life"
hunchback "pray for scars"
eddy current suppression ring "primary colours"
doctor bird "meet dr. bird"
pangea "those new songs(?)"
jehova's fitness "worst summer ever"
yankee kamikaze
killer dreamer "1000 years of servitude"

that list ended up being way longer than i was originally planning, but whatever.

top 5 shows of 2008

5. defiance, ohio; this bike is a pipe bomb; vena cava; neato-bandito; pcjs @ steinburg in january
4. NUX FEST
3. AWESOME FEST
2. CHAOS IN TEJAS
1. THE FEST

well there you go. i'm pretty excited to hear about some cool shit from everyone!

-willie
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Top New Music of 2kHate (generally the higher = better)

Skull Collector - Oh Men of Mildewed Minds
Pygmy Lush - Mount Hope
Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain
Woods - Some Shame
Dystopia - s/t
Islands - Arm's Way
Verse en Coma - Rialto
Hypothermia - Gratoner
Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Thou - everything released this year
Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
Breathing Fire - Years of Lead
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra+ Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Fall of Efrafa/Paper Aeroplane - Tharn
The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
Portugal. the Man - Censored Colors
Mortalized & the Guilty Connector - Concerto for Harsh Grind Noise #1
Failures - s/t
The All-American Rejects - When the World Comes Down (serious)

Top Old Bands I Revisited and Fell in Love with Again:
Still Life
Amesoeurs
GISM
Depressor

Top Shows (no order):
Jaguar Love
Corrupted
KING BROTHERS
Portraits of Past/La Quiete
Skull Collector/Punch in SB
Stella
Graf Orlock/Dangers/Fischer/Skull Collector (aka Naked Juice dungeon)

-tallmax
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this was so hard becasue i always forget what year shit comes out and im soooo indecisive..anyways.

goslings - occasion
(not my favorite goslings album but its the only 2008 one + super fuzzed out)

french quarter - st
(these songs stuck with me)

mount eeire - lost wisdom
(duh)

verse - aggression
(always stuck in my head)

samothrace - lifes trade
(epic)

sun araw - beach head
(i really liked this for some reason)

hatred surge - discography
(totally counts)

grails - doomsdayers holiday
(riffs + this band is longtime fav)

punch - debut ep
(yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh!!)

skull collector - ep or whatever
(you guys worked hard on this..and the end result is awesome)


top 5 shows
nux fest, nobunny, corrupted, thee oh sees, sparrows gate (sike!)

top 5 burritos
that one place in longbeach, tonitas, tios, tortilla town, tonitas

that took way to much of my time..im gonna go hangout in the kitchen

- reuben
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most in order.

.Des Ark- Radio demo II.
.French Quart- S/T LP.
.Mount Eerie- Black Wooden Ceiling Opening E.P.
.Mount Eerie- Lost Wisdom.
.Thee Silver Mount Zion...-13 Blues for Thirteen Moons LP.
.Punch- Eyeless E.P.
.Cult Ritual- 2nd E.P.
.Cult Ritual- 3rd E.P.
.Mind Eraser - Conscious/Unconscious LP.
.Sex Vid- Communal Living LP.
.Dry-Rot- 3 records on 1 CD.
.Pygmy Lush- Mount Hope.
.Cower- Hatred Songs E.P.

-doopy

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i didn't feel like taking the time to figure out what stuff actually came out in 2008, so i just made a list of the stuff i enjoyed the most in 2008. in no order at all

1. mind eraser - conscious, unconscious
2. fall of efrafa - elil & owsla
3. dystopia - human=garbage
4. the ergs! - jersey's best prancers
5. oroku - living through the end of time...
6. ceremony - still nothing moves you
7. death cab for cutie - transatlanticism
8. dead in the water - echoes...in the ruins
9. modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
10. blink 182 - mark, tom, and travis show
11. breathing fire - year of lead
12. wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)
13. tonitas - solo burrito w/ black beans

-steve dave

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miguel's top tens (no order)

lp's
eat skull - sick to death (siltbreeze)
ty segall - ty segall (castle face)
nobunny - love visions (1234go!)
woods family creeps - woods family creeps (woodsist)
dystopia - dystopia (life's a rape)
underground railroad to candyland - bird roughs (recess)
blank dogs - on two sides (tmu)
sex vid - communal living (dom america)
the bananas - new animals (recess records)
wavves - wavves (woodsist)

7's
catatonic youth - piss scene (hozac)
shorebirds - shorebirds (no idea)
nodzzz - i don't wanna (make a mess)

anarcho-soccer this SATURDAY

Sam told me that she wanted to set up a drunken/sober good-time soccer match. So everyone should be at Buchon house early in the afternoon this Saturday and we'll have some beers/root beers, put on some helmets, and head over to the park around 4 or so.

And if we end up getting good at soccer, we should try to get into a league and get some fucking trophies. I'm pretty sure that we could take these little fuckerz.

Chi City plays with toy cars; the world becomes a better place

And go make your top of '08 lists!

SCAVENGER HUNT PHOTOS

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Time Fucks

twenty eight minutes left.
we've pissed on eachothers faces,
climbed into water dungeons,
got tattoos,
never went to bed,