World Famous In San Francisco

So, I never did get around to writing about the girls show a few weeks back. It was the feel good show of the winter. So many young kids (ok, girls) who knew the songs on the myspace by heart. They could barely contain their excitement that these songs were going to be performed live, close enough to touch, which is so much closer than the internet can get you. I normally hate it when people sing along at shows but this was endearing. Really. And the band was so excited to play. Summertime fuzzy pop magic.







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If you missed it, don't worry! They're playing again at the third night of Mushrooms International:

8PM Sat, March 8, 2008
Kimo's Bar
1351 Polk St

Holy Shit (LA, featuring Ariel Pink and Matt Fishbeck)
Girls (SF)
The Passionistas

Also, here's some video Myles took of Holy Shit when they were in town to send dead eye off on his toothless new life in appalachia. This is a spaced out bongo jam with bad drugs written all over it -- just dead eye's style.



And a passionistas video for good measure:

First Person Magazine has finally gone and done what I've been asking for. Girls, the new and uncommonly great San Francisco band, are finally playing a show! They're for real, its not a hoax, and word on the street is the band sounds awesome. I don't know who these FP Magazine people are but somebody should thank them!

Also playing are Yes Please, Raccoons, and Soft Hug. I checked the word on the street and nobody knows who these bands are but Yes Please are on at 9 PM sharp, so get there on time if you're curious. We're curious! Actually, we probably need to run an errand over at Chrome so maybe we won't see Yes Please. But we're firm believers in doing everything so we're going to try!

This is going to be super fun. You really should come.
Saturday Feb 16th
Cafe du Nord
2174 Market St
9 PM 10$

If you were in the Castro last week it was very obvious that somebody was filming a movie. If you asked around, people seemed a little confused and slightly annoyed that there weren't any parking spots. Instead there were old timey cars, 70s-looking shop signs and awesome community bulletin boards. That's right. The Castro looked way cooler.

And when I saw Gus Van Sant in real life, he didn't look as hot as I was hoping he'd look. He was wearing really practical boots, ugly black jeans and some kind of L.L. Bean parka. So yeah - nothing was going to go down even though he was looking at me. I don't care if I love his movies, I don't want to make love to him.

You can still find lots of bulletins if you go down there. I ripped a bunch off the first night they were put up. In other news, Christopher Owens from Girls got a call back to be in a bar scene with Sean Penn. Very cool. I can't wait to see Milk.

The Passionistas - Fucking Cold


Thanks Jeremy Smears and Elton Tom for running the blog while I was away. I was in a creative coma for a couple weeks. Expect fun new stuff. I can't tell you all the exciting news just yet - for now here is a new video I directed for my band, The Passionistas, starring Christopher Owens from Girls.

You know, in case the myspace bulletins aren't catching your attention or you aren't one of the thousands of hits on these songs, Girls have a new song. I bring the breaking news -- or I need to find somebody new to write about. The new song is pretty good -- "God Damned" is more in line with the last three songs they put up and less to do with that little pop gem they dropped right out of the gate. Get the kids hooked on something sweet and then switch it. Actually, I didn't love the song they posted before this one, so I didn't post it here, but its grown on me so check out "Hellhole Ratrace" too. Quality!

Word on the street is these dudes might be playing a show soon, which would be cool. Hopefully it won't be some super secret apartment party!

Holy Shit - PART TWO - live @ the Eagle, San Francisco, 12/27/07


So if you weren't at the Holy Shit show, you totally missed out. Luckily WFISF has a video camera now, so you don't have to miss out completely. So Holy Shit are a band from LA that make this really stubborn psychedelic music. They play V back to I a lot... sort of like David Bowie's Heroes or Modern English's Melt with You. That chord progression always sounds awesome. So check them out if you're not already familiar. The band features Christopher "Crissy Baby" Owens from one of our favorite bands Girls.

Holy Shit - PART ONE

Holy Shit - PART THREE

Check it out, a new Girls song called "Summertime". Myles was right, it does rule. Where as the last song was an undeniably catchy pop ditty, this new one is more rock with some nice psychedelic floursihes. Its like if spacemen 3 were from California and their drugs were laced with amphetamines.

Damn fellas, somebody I know with a record label is thinking seven inch!

Check out the debut Girls song "Lust for life." I think it's better than the Iggy Pop song of the same name. You can listen to it over and over. It reminds me of that Adolescents song "Kids Of The Black Hole" for some reason, don't ask me why, but with even better nonsensical lyrics.

And there is more where this came from! I've heard the follow up single... and it rules.