World Famous In San Francisco

Well, Raccoons seem to be all the rage. Atleast with the folks involved with Mushrooms International's upcoming festival: they're on the latest edition of cobain in a coma and Myles seems to like them. Or their boners, I can't tell. I mean, who doesn't like boners? Anyway, I'm going to stroke the raccoon boner some more, here's some photos from their show with girls:





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Patrik from Cobain In a Coma decides to throw a 'monthly' every eight months or so. From what I can remember, there was first 4EVER, and then Stoned Age . This one, Spaced, seems to be the same deal as the others. The bands are his friends and if you go you'll probably not feel invited even though it's in a public place. I'm gonna go. I'm kind of masochistic if you haven't already noticed. Jealousy and Bridez are playing. There will be a custom photobooth by Daniel Minnick.

There is lots going on tonight!



Tonight Donuts celebrate their one-year birthday.

Also Black Dice, TITS and Fuckwolf play at 12 Galaxies!

And Jennifer Herrema and her band RTX are going to be on Cobain In a Coma on West Add Radio 93.7FM at 8pm.

What are you gonna do?

I thought Sylvia VS. Alisha were gonna blog about this, but given that neither of them could squeeze into this photo, I can see why they didn't post it. Both of those girls lost this one! Rumor has it, Chris Crocker attended this LA Halloween party with James St. James.

That's former Passionistas drummer Jessica Gaston on the right and Patrik Sandberg from Cobain In a Coma right in front looking like a greasy Ninja Turtle who stole his mom's lipstick. That's totally how a Ninja Turtle would apply make up too! I mean how could a Ninja Turtle grab a little lipstick tube with those bulky snappers. They'd totally rub it all around their mouth just like Patrik did. Good job Patrik!

I'm just kidding around Patrik. Your Oscar the Grouch costume is adorable!

Liza Thorn, local spectacle and member of Cobain in a Coma on West Add Radio, hipster thrash band So So Many White White Tigers, failed rap project No Condom Whatever!, and the kind of defunct Curls (actually, they're now Girls and don't feature Liza at all and have a great new song Myles posted about earlier), is also in a band called Wildflowerz whom I thought were defunct but apparently have a new song up. Its called "Human Eye" and its pretty alright. Its like SSMWWT, but with, uh, just a wee bit of melody thrown in. Really, some of you might not even notice the melody, but I do and I like it. I was way into that other song "steal", so much so that I put it on a World Famous in San Francisco mix cd I made (if you want a copy myspace us! or email w o r l d f a m o u s i n s f (a t) g m a i l (d o t) c o m)

Also, they have a show on November 9th at "The Egg". Where is that? What is that? Man, I don't know anything!

World Famous In San Francisco is not the only place you can hear shit talking about the Bay Area music scene. Shock jox Patrik and Liza from West Add Radio's Cobain In a Coma have been shit talking for WAY longer than WFISF. Here is a sample of some recent conversation:



Patrik: Don't you have a band that you hate, and want to talk shit about?

Liza: Oh yeah, well, I don't think they're worth mentioning.

Patrik: I love egging on band feuds.

Liza: You guys. That band, Little Teeth, suck okay? Like, some guy emailed me about setting a show up, and he sent me a link to this band Little Teeth. And I thought, why does this sound familure? So I clicked on it...

Patrik: It's Andy (Tisdall)'s  band

Liza: ...it's like the worst part of when that girl from the Cranberries does that freak out thing with her throat.

Patrik: I love when she does that freak out thing with her throat.

Liza: It's really, really bad. It's so fucked. IT'S SO FUCKED.

Patrik: I like Little Teeth because Dannie (Murrie) reminds me of Alanis Morissette. (laughs)

Liza: These are the bands in San Francisco I hate: In the number one slot, Clipd Beaks, Little Teeth... What's with all these beaks and teeth and little things?

Patrik: It's pathetic. They probably all shop at Little Otsu and buy little pieces of paper.

Acquaintance Patrik Sandberg of West Add radio's most listened-to radio show and blog, Cobain In a Coma, believes he is in Rhythm Nation- when he is in fact not.

Last Halloween Patrik sat in my apartment dissatisfied with his ramshackle straight-guy costume. I thought he looked okay in regular jeans; and the Nascar T was fun. Really it was. But nonetheless Patrik looked sad. Way sad. Now, I don't remember how it happend, but I suggested my Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation cap. We put the hat on his head, some black and white clothing AND ta-da! Rhythm Nation backup dancer!

But what started off as a cute Halloween costume has now turned into an every-other day outfit. Go to his party on Saturday. He'll probably be wearing my hat. Snatch it off that redhead and return it to me emkay thnx. I hope it doesn't smell like Chochella. It belongs on one of my teddy bears.


Dethrone the queen Saturday @ Thee Parkside plz MK thnx.

A few weeks ago we went down to the OC & LA for some shows with Hard Place, remember? You didn't think we weren't going to share our California adventure did you? Its totally cool for me to write about Hard Place since I'm not in the band. Seriously!

Actually, there isn't much to write about for the first portion of our trip. Elton is sick and I get to drive us down to the OC for a half an hour show at The Clinic. Originally this was supposed to be a five band bill with Curls and The Bubonic Plague, but Curls broke up (total trauma 2007 I guess) and The Bubonic Plague miss a lot of shows. The plague will take it out of you. We get there and its almost hilarious how disorganized it is -- "Oh... Hard Place... um, I guess there'll be three bands playing tonight then". Except not really since one of the other bands was Actually Huizenga, otherwise known as Ashley from Hard Place because the club got the band's name wrong.

FYI, traffic was terrible. It took us three hours to get from just north of LA down to Huntington Beach. The rest of Hard Place leave around six and we're worried if there's really only one band playing tonight. But they showed up around the same time as us because, as it was explained to me, of the influx of the wave. They also bring news that Logo Moi is playing so we're up to three bands! Then we wait for a long time in the car and watch a weird Chinese man.

First up is Ploon whose myspace page I had a hard time finding -- "Its easy, its spelled like it sounds!", except I thought Ploon would be spelled Plune. What do I know? Anyway, these guys do a noise thing and had the privilege of performing it for hard place and me and the nice people working at The Clinic and nobody else. I have a love/hate relationship with the noise but these guys bring a much needed sense of humor to the affair. Its almost performance art. Check this clip, it'll explain it better than I can and its hilarious:

Apparently, and sadly, this was their last show since one of them is moving back east. Just remember that the next time you think you should sit at home instead of go out to a show. But, word on the street is that Ploon will continue as Ploon-D and Ploon-B, with each member taking on their respective coast.

Logo Moi hasn't shown up so next is Hard Place and now they have the privilege of playing for me and Ploon. And they were super good. Does that happen to you, the things you do are always super awesome when nobody's looking? Anyway, Logo Moi appear right at the end of the set and are excited to see Hard Place and that they made it and decide to play even though nobody is there to watch them because those kids are super fun. Except we left because we had to get the sick one to bed. Sad. But its cool because there's another show with hard place and Logo Moi in LA and there'll be more on that soon!

Hey kids, check out the hijinx over at cobain in a coma. Super fun!



Photo by matt irwin for dazed&confused.