An endeavor begun in earnest with the "proceeds" of our Spring '09 tour with Dan Friel. An encounter with Craigslist weirdo lead to the purchase of approx 2000 blank tapes, and us with access to a pro quality 1 to 1 duplicator, a bunch of friends we are stoked on, and an itchy "record" finger.
First up:
(TTT01) is Chen Santa Maria live at KFJC. It's Spring '08, and Steve is freshly returned from the beastly east. Thanks to Dan Kletter for having us in the pit.
(TTT02) George Chen solo recording - "Fried" is the appropriate name for a hazy pre-NY trip of insomnia and forced output, finagling analog soundings through a computerized strainer and reunited with its soupy preserves.
(TTT03) Fun Santa Maria - Drugs 4 - solo recordings. sweet sweep c20
(TTT04) Sword&Sandals/Vholtz/Woman's Worth/Ettrick 4 way split. Long talked about circa '07 output of SF jazzbos.
(TTT05) Mi Or And The Pedestals |||||. NY/SF vet Ceci Moss has done time in drone/noise/rock/synth jail (Boxleitner, SSSpectres, East Village Radio, AMillionKeys.com), this is her teardrop tattoo - 40 minutes of claustrophilia.
(TTT06) Brown Un.
(TTT07) Steve Touchton and Evan Backer c12.

[[ DAN FRIEL + CHEN SANTA MARIA TOUR WEST COAST ]]
April 25th - Portland, OR. Sorority House. with Litanic Mask, Child Bride, Yellow Crystal Star, Tunnels
April 26th - Seattle, WA. The Josephine. with Totally Ripped, Sex Negatives, Arbitron, Redneck
April 27th - Portland, OR. Valentine's. with White Rainbow, Grandfather Claws
April 28th - Oakland, CA. Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut. with Grouper, Date Palms
]]DAN FRIEL + CHEN SANTA MARIA + ERIKA M. ANDERSON[[
April 29th - Irvine, CA. Acrobatics Everyday @ UC Irvine
April 30th - Los Angeles, CA. The Smell. with Lucky Dragons, The Finches
May 1st - Los Angeles, CA. Pehrspace. with Foot Village, Kill Kill Kill
May 2nd - San Francisco, CA. Oven51. with High Castle, Stamina Mantis, Pompoir

*Dan Friel has been making primitive electronic music under his own name and with the Brooklyn-based band Parts & Labor since 2001. His most
recent solo recording, "Ghost Town", was released by Important Records
in May of 2008. Ostensibly a western, Ghost Town alternates between
dense, distorted, beat-driven epiphanies, and haunting solos from a
variety of makeshift electronic instruments. His work (solo and with
Parts & Labor) has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling
Stone, Wire, and Pitchfork.  He has also performed with Glenn Branca
and Damo Suzuki, and played shows with Thurston Moore, Lightning Bolt,
Growing, Fuckbuttons, Japanther, Matt and Kim, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more.

*Chen Santa Maria put out their first full-length CD in fall 2008 after
several CDR and cassette releases and compilation appearances. Members
George Chen and Steven Santa Maria have played in KIT, Common Eider
King Eider, Jah No Dead, and Boxleitner. Chen was also a touring member
of Grey Daturas.
Self-titled album has seven tracks at 38 minutes, recorded with Ricardo Esway (Militant Children’s Hour) and mastered by Thomas Dimuzio (Dimmer) at Gench (Matmos, Negativland). They have collaborated on live multimedia shows with video artist Nate Boyce. The album has received play on
KFJC, KUSF, and KALX
*Will have new self-released CDR "Chen Santa Maria & Luuse" 60 minutes of jam with Randy Lee Sutherland, and a cassette, "Murked"

*On the southern california dates the 2 bands will be joined by Erika M. Anderson and the Some Dark Holler.  Anderson has sung and strummed in Gowns and Amps for Christ, and describes her new project as "Branca at the HonkyTonk".

http://danfriel.com
http://www.importantrecords.com
http://myspace.com/chensantamaria
http://www.myspace.com/houseofgreyskull
http://www.myspace.com/thejosephine
http://www.myspace.com/valentineslifeblood
http://www.myspace.com/totallyintense
http://acrobaticseveryday.com
http://pehrspace.org
http://thesmell.org
http://sanfrancisco.decider.com/venues/oven51,54798/

Sunday July 13th 6pm:

M ax Noi Mach
synt . tofs
Chen Santa Maria
+++??? 1 other special surprise probably.



6pm
Bring a Donation to trade for a poster!!!


BBQ!!!

COME AT 6pm!!! Bring your safeness!!! Tell A FRIEND TO TELL A FRIEND
TO HOP ON THEIR BIKE AND COME OUT!!!

BBQBBQBBQBBQBBQBBQBBQQQQBBQQBBBQBBBQBBBQQBBQBQ

Directions:

Follow Geary Blvd to the end, it becomes Point Lobos Ave. Once you see
water, look right, there are Ruins of a public bath, to the right of
the baths is a cave.




MAP TO SUTRO BATHS

PS: DON'T ASK LOUIS' RESTURANT WHERE THE CAVE SHOW IS!!! It is kind of
a secret from them...

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=263296459

Playlist Description:
my first attempt at a public iMix. seems easier than podcasting

She's My Best Friend - The Velvet Underground
The Song Is the Single - Barr
Diamond Dancer - Bill Callahan
In the Sine Wave - Scout Niblett
We Have Won (Reprise) - True Primes
Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl - Unrest
Everybody's Down - No Age
Beacon of Hope - Sea Scouts
Air Conditioner - Tyvek

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/science/08tier.html?em&ex=1178856000&en=da996a77857240cf&ei=5087%0A

A Lonesome Tortoise, and a Search for a Mate
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By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: May 8, 2007
It is a truth universally acknowledged, at least among humans, that a giant tortoise in the possession of the last sperm of his species must be in want of a wife. But what if the tortoise prefers a different lifestyle?

When I met Lonesome George two decades ago, in his pen on the main island of the Galápagos, I had the usual impulse to fix up the world's most famous bachelor. I chartered a fishing boat for a miserable trip out to Pinta Island, the wilderness 100 miles away where George had been discovered in 1971 living by himself.

As I fought my way through Pinta's overgrown vines and cactus pads, fervently hoping to spot a female Pinta tortoise behind a lava rock or a thorn bush, I was already working on her name. Georgette seemed too derivative. I liked the local evolutionary allusion of Darwinia, but finally settled on less of a mouthful: Eve.

I didn't find her, of course, so I went back to George's pen to bid a sad farewell to him and his species. Then I penned a long — and quite moving, I thought — contemplation of the ethics of conservation, the destructiveness of man and the meaning of life.

Now it seems the obituary was premature. I was looking on the wrong island. Last week, after sampling the genes of a few tortoises on Isabela Island, biologists announced that there is probably at least one Pinta tortoise somewhere among the thousands of tortoises there. Next year the researchers hope to find a female to take back to George's pen.

This is happy news for humanity, but not necessarily for George. We can shed a little of our collective guilt for nearly wiping out his species. George must deal with an identity crisis and performance anxiety.

What happens to his status as conservation icon — and his title as the rarest living creature? He could lose it all: his record, his name, his brand. Until now he's been the main tourist draw at the Darwin Research Station, the prime example of what fund-raisers call charismatic megafauna.

Sans pathos, will he still be lucrative? His handlers hope that a new romance will inspire even more visitors and donations, but — and this is what really worries me — there might not be much romance when Eve arrives.

George is not what you would call a stud. When I visited him in 1985, he was thought to be a relatively young adult, maybe 50 years old, but he was already a confirmed bachelor. He hadn't shown any interest in two females of a similar species placed in his pen. One had flipped over and drowned in the wading pool. The keepers weren't positive that George had driven this tortoise to her death, but he definitely hadn't been doing any Barry White serenades.

A few years later, in 1993, there was briefly a companion known as "Lonesome George's girlfriend," but she was not a tortoise. She was a 26-year-old graduate student in zoology from Switzerland named Sveva Grigioni.

By coating her hands in the genital secretions of female tortoises and gently stroking him, she managed to demonstrate a couple of times (in the course of several months' work) that George was capable of an erection. But whereas her touch could induce other male tortoises to reach orgasm within a few minutes, with George she never managed to collect any sperm.

Her ministrations — or maybe it was the pheromones in the secretions — did seem to pique George's interest in the female tortoises, as Ms. Grigioni reported to Henry Nicholls, the author of the definitive new biography, "Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon." But George's temporary interest did not translate into performance.

"He started to try copulation," Ms. Grigioni said, "but it was like he didn't really know how to."

To be fair to George, he's never been observed with a female of his race, Geochelone nigra abingdoni. (It has been traditionally classified a subspecies of giant tortoise, but many biologists now consider it a separate species.) After the news last week, I sought a prognosis from Ms. Grigioni on the prospects for abingdoni love.

pet wake this sunday!
bring a picture of your pet and some stories, you can share with other pet owners who have gone through similar experiences...
oakland, 30th and broadway
some music provided by happiness (the band, they sing about their deceased cat also) and some cakes by hostess sophia kim.
get wakey at 4 pm, this sunday. write for more details. map here

P.S. RIP Cayce Lindner and Charles Gocher, good humans

man, so that was a weird weekend. thanks all for coming out on the 2nd to the capp street festivities. my actual sunday birthday was ablast of noise pancakes, fried goods, park action, apples to apples, turkish delights, and gowns. thanks to all you. if you have photos please send/post them.
george "old man" chen

Put together a show for my birthday, it'll be here and thesee arehte details, hope you can make it.

December 2nd, Saturday
Club Sandwich Presents:
JANA HUNTER
CORE OF THE COALMAN
DYING CALIFORNIAN
LAZARUS
JAP JAP
more surprise guests TBA

at 180 Capp Street, San Francisco
http://www.space180.org/
$6 All Ages - Time TBA

This show is also a birthday party for George Chen

==========CLUB SANDWICH EVENTS========
http://www.myspace.com/clubsandwichsf

== JANA HUNTER http://www.janahunter.tk/
Texas singer-songwriter of some repute, playing solo (though she is a
sometime member of Castanets).
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A348524

==CORE OF THE COALMAN
http://www.geocities.com/sevencentralandmountain/coalman
Oakland-via-Texas noise and viola riser Jorge Boehringer. Done time in
Treehugger, USOUTFOOURUTERUS, Commode Minstrels in Bullface, Brown
Bunny Ensemble, and most recently Caroliner.

==DYING CALIFORNIAN http://www.thedyingcalifornian.com/
The crux of '90s California hardcore mainstays Nuzzle now abutted with
added players and reconfigured to focus on Americana melodies and
exquisite vocals.
SF Bay Guardian interview -
http://www.sfbg.com/printable_entry.php?entry_id=1265

==LAZARUS
http://www.temporaryresidence.com/bands/lazarus.php

==JAP JAP - from Aquarius Records - http://aquariusrecords.org
"GORDON, JACQUELINE dreamBlanket (Diagnosis... Don't!) cd-r
Gordon is an Oakland-based sound artist, who designs blankets with
speakers sewn into them, each connected to some sound producing
device, a toy or musical instrument, the listener is then encouraged
to wrap themselves in the blanket, and luxuriate in the sounds
produced by the listener's movement. Incredibly immersive and so
goddamn cool! This disc captures a brief snippet of Gordon's
installation. A warm fuzzy soundscape of distorted electronics,
droning and growling, hissing and rumbling and whirls of haunting
electronic glitches all woven into an undulating swirl of thick buzz
and strange murky and mechanical melody."

thank you thank you, for putting us over 1000 myspace friends. we couldn't have done it without you. or could we?
also the album (yes, we have an album, 8 tracks) is finally mastered. coming out sometime on gssd. mastering by mr. thomas dimuzio, thanks man. now we gotta do the art.