Public Diary

  • Nov 15, 1995

    This is the first, the longest, and possibly the only ever entry on the Red West Safe for Public Consumtion Diary. Hello, public!

    Had a pretty good show this morning- less than my usual quota of dead air and panic queues and songs that don't quite work. No email or callers though, not even for the Legenday Pink Dots tickets which I thought would be a shoo-in. Singed up to see the Jane Siberry show, which may still be going on as I type now. Got lost on the way there! shucks. And then I got lost on the way back, and just as I found my path, I saw signs directing me towards the show... but


    so even if I got there I would have missed most of the show, methinks. I'm rilly dissapointed. Not that I'm a big fan of Siberry, heck, I couldn't name or whistle a single one of her songs, but I know she used to be new wave and supposedly does good music now and puts on a good show and I've never seen a music show at the Palace of Fine Arts and all my friends poke fun at me for getting so damn lost all the time and if my housemate had come with me we wouldn't have gotten lost but he didn't so now I hate him.

    Outings planned for the next three nights: Phantom Surfers at Bottom of the Hill, Stephen Merrit at Bimbo's, Legendary Pink Dots somewhere in San Jose (never seen a show in that city b4!). Hopefully will catch part of the John Cage series as well. This coast is grand.

  • Nov 16th (Thurs night/Fri morning)

    One novelty computers offer is clean erasure. I can remove yesterday's reference to April March without a trace.
    Sad how the truth can get lost. but that's another subject.

    Tonight, I went to the Bottom of the Hill to take advantage of a free ticket & see the Phantom Surfers! Only I had to pay $6 and watch Bimbo Toolshed, because the show I wanted to see is tomorrow night! And I can't go to that show becuase there's one I'd rather see somewhere else. This means that I'll have missed two shows I signed up for in the week after we were warned not to abuse our concert perks... whoops. At least I got to hear Dr. Sauce on the way there and Dopestyle coming back.
    I also found out that tix for yesterday's Siberry show went for $21, so that means I gave up a posh experience so I could try a shortcut and get lost. That show must have been great if people were willing to pay that much to see it.

    Spent about six hours after work writing a parser for Steve K.'s "The List." It works great on the Club section, only had an hour to work on the show section. We already have code that parses it, but I don't have a good enough connection to look at it. Well I guess I can now... can't find it. Oh well.

    Had some dream about a paganistic rite around a fire and a music database that replenished itself from DJ's playlists. Details sketchy.

    Hey, I can hear my roomate snoring! That's a new one.
    g'night

  • Dez 33, 333

    I hate this city. I can't wash the snow. Instead I stand on the porch and cry and cry into the sandy fill here in the dead of winter and all I get is mired ankle deep. When I lived in a Northern clime all winter long I had the cleanest porch on the block, everyone could see, it was a kind of almost respect I got, but here all I get is stuck.

  • Nov 26 1995

    Well that was pretty down. I thought I should erase it before anyone I know finds it, but bug whoop. Big whhoop. Shucks.

    I'm using vi today instead of emacs because one of the afs servers that has something emacs needs is on the fritsz. That sucks! I miss escape-meta- alt-control-shift eight-megs-and-constatntly -swapping emacs. Can't consult doctor, cant dissociate-text, or move the towers of hanoi- what good is a text editor without those features.

    Buit this is a radio station, and you want to heafr about shows. Hmmm. My sister sang lots of tunes from Gilbert & Sullivan shows at thanksgiving, it was cute.
    bye. :wq ooops

  • Dec 3,1995 Sunday (7 pm)

    Better try to make this quick. Spent most of the day sleeping and watching TV. Blew off going into the city for dinner to sleep and watch more TV but now I'm rested and may want to see an 8pm show.

    Busy busy weekend! Friday night I saw the Go-Nuts at the Bottom of the Hill. Heard the opening acts were great but I was late (was at an open house at Kala, a print studio in Oakland. DJ emeretus Blue thought I was going to KALW, oops!) The Go-Nuts played surf, had gorillas dancing on the bar, created a confectioner's sugar smoke machine, pelted the audience with snacks- my friends were put-off but I ate it up. Red reccomends. Many luminaries there- DJ Lovechild (who scolded me for showing up late) among them.

    Saturday I saw the matinee of Naked Killer at the Roxy. Also reccomended! Remember the old "silent" Aeon Flux where the babe just kills baddies by the score? The first ten minutes of this is like that, and again later on... lots of viloence, a little man/woman & woman/woman sex, and slews of awfully translated subtitles. See you earlier!

    Then I visited a junior-high classmate that I haven't seen in about a decade. I was dissaponted that her room wasn't as messy as it was way back when. Had a good time, felt at home which is quite a feat considering how long it had been & that my housemate, a complete stranger to her, was there too. Back to the music...

    Went to the Stork Club by myself to see Dreamland & Chamring Hostess. I expected to see Surprise Show Glenn there as he's a big fan of Idiot Flesh, who make up half of Charming Hostess, but he wasn't there. I didn't see anyone I know :-(

    Dreamland is fronted by a true Diva so the attitude makes the band fun to watch regardless of how you like the music. As for the music, the band put it well- "the more you drink, the more you'll like us." They had a few really stellar moments, though much of it is a genre I only kinda like. Female vocalist over prog-rock, with some hints of goth, harmonizing, contributions from all members of the band, guest spots w/an ex-Charming Hostess.

    Charming Hostess: more female harmonizing, disconcerting as the songs alternated between angry wimmin & fun/gusto. The live act was enjoyable, they're talented. The demo tape I got after the show was a little heavy-handed, so just see the act.

    I remember thinking when I saw the Idiot Flesh CD cover that they were into circus freaks. Now that I've seen them in person, I realize the cover wasn't taken from an old poster, it's them! They are the freaks! (Sorta.) Weird.

    Now, should I see Teengenerate, the Trashwomen, and the Shakes? Or is it off the the Warepad for a god-awful flick? Decisions, decisions...

  • Dec 9, 1995
    Hmmm, the year is ending...

    Well, last week I ended up seeing some of the Shakes and Trashwomen and then I went to see A Lovely Sort of death and, Oh fuck! They had a party tonight and I forgot all about it! Hmmm, maybe it's still going on- hell, I missed out. Damn. Hell, what with dinner at my uncle's I couldn't have made it anyway.

    I'm breaking out in acne all over. It really bothers me. After it started I used more soap and shampoo in the morning but it hasn't seemed to work. The worst are the boils on my scalp. You can't see them, but I love to rub my head, and they're sore. Under the cover of my thick brown locks they fester, red and inflammed. It's a good thing I don't have a girlfriend, she'd be grossed out, refuse to sleep with me, and make me shampoo with Oxy10.
    Red West, resident of San Mateo, and uncomfortable with his own asexuality...

    Last night was the Red House Painters at the Noe Valley Ministry. They were good, but they bored me. During the second song I saw a tall man carry his sleeping friend down the stairs. After an hour most of the audience was asleep, and snoring in unison. The band worked with this, riding the rhythm. Then the audience broke cadence and the snores, the sonorous saws, rolled around the room from right to left and back again. It overwhelmed the band and myself. We all slept.

    In pairs and small clusters we awoke, said to eachother "that was a good sleep" and nodded and went on our ways.