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Alrighty. 

I woke up extra early to get these listings done and they still took me three hours so I have now not been to the San Diego Zoo in four days and that is not acceptable. But work is work and I had a really good time (and busted my ass) to work at Pavement on Wednesday and Cat Power on Thursday. I don't think I have anything on the agenda but I got asked to do merch for the Livewire Anniversary Party and also maybe Rupaul, so that is pretty sweet. 

We know that crazy weather is forecasted for Friday and Saturday in our area. I have noted where things have been canceled or are going on rain or shine when that information was available, but just be smart. Before you go to any event, double check their socials and sites for information. I can't actually believe Boots in the Park and the Blues Festival are both rain or shine events, seems like a HUGE liability, but wtf do I know? 

There also weren't enough concert announcements to justify the time it takes to compile, but Modest Mouse is coming to Observatory in December and tickets are on sale today, so that is for sure worth checking out. 

Anyway, be safe out there. I'm going to make myself a big ass breakfast and spend the rest of my day in the rain at the Zoo. 

A Ship In The Woods Music and Art Festival Announced In Escondido June 16-17

A new entry in the local music festival scene, A SHIP IN THE WOODS presents their inaugural Music and Art Festvial at Felicita County Park on June 16-17.

Built To Spill, No Age, Bill Callahan(SMOG), and Shabazz Palaces to Headline the Inaugural 2018 A SHIP IN THE WOODS Music & Art Festival at Felicita County Park in Escondido, California.

A SHIP IN THE WOODS is a 501c3 nonprofit.

Tickets are on sale now with Early Bird Weekend pricing until April 20 for just $80.

Get your tickets here, just don't stare at the website too long our you might have a seizure.

More Art Events: Howl & Space4Art Garage Sale

These events come to you from my friends Jessica and Richard of the Moviegoers:

The first event is a performance extravaganza up at UCSD called "Howl" - Friday night at Mandeville Center - 8 pm - midnight. Richard and I will be playing a duo set as Island Boy, a side project that we're excited about. Here's the press info:

The University Art Gallery at UCSD is pleased to collaborate with graduate and undergraduate students from Music, Theatre, Dance and Visual Arts to host a multi-media fright night on October 29 from 8pm – midnight entitled HOWL. Michael Trigilio, Agitprop ft. Chris Warren and Sean Francis Conway, Company 157, Joe Yorty, Elizabeth Chaney, Jessica Sledge, Sadie Barnette, Meghann Welsh, Island Boy, Frankie Martin, Nomads Theatre Company, Treble Singers, Bombshell Boom Boom, Vabianna Santos, Suzanne Wright and MORE!


The second event is a fundraiser for SD Space 4 Art called It Came from the Garage - Saturday - 1 pm - 6 pm. It is a garage sale with bands. Here's the info:

GARAGE SALE featuring carefully hoarded treasures from Space 4 Art tenant/artists and donors: no junk! 50% of proceeds benefit the space, so buy some art, something you never knew you wanted, or your Halloween costume, and help us raise money for Space 4 Art! Starts at 1pm. LIVE MUSIC from the Hot Moon, the Widows, the Moviegoers, and the Old In Out. Music starts at 2pm.
ONLY $3 at the door...and only $1 if you are in costume! We'll have food and snacks and beverages for sale (and the taco truck will be back!).

Tonight: Sky White Tiger Make San Diego Debut

There are so many incredible things to do tonight, including another SoundDiego Live party at Analog featuring Miss Erika Davies and The Smart Brothers, (Click here to RSVP) and I booked Red Fox Tails once again over at West Coast Tavern, but I bumped into my friend Drew the other night and he asked me to share some info about an event at his gallery. Here's what he sent.

Time: Thursday October 28, 2010 - 8:00 PM

Brooklyn-based musical ensemble Sky White Tiger is coming to San Diego for the first time to play a free show at The Andrews Gallery. Also on display will be some collaborative video musings by SD-based artists Micki Davis and Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli.
Sky White Tiger front man Louis Schwadron started this new project after playing with the Polyphonic Spree, Rufus Wainwright, and other awesome people (Bowie!). Check out their website to learn more.

The Andrews Gallery's studio may or may not look like outer space...it will be up to you to find out. Face paint highly encouraged, and as a special treat, drinks will be on the house.

Like all events at The Andrews Gallery, this one is free, all ages, and open to the public.

Click here for directions to Andrews Gallery

The Visual Underground Returns to CASBAH - Oct 29th.

The dirty pirate hookers of film+rock+art are back. I cannot tell you how surprised I am to be doing another show as a member of The Visual Underground. I can even go as far as to say that at one in my life I swore I would never do one again. Well, like the oath I made about never drinking again, I broke my promise.

It was 2003 (or 2002), when Gavin Allen and myself (John-Ryan Shea aka AVicious), then film students at San Diego State, went to Sundance to work the NoDance Film Festival. Gavin was a pompous ass I knew that like Billy Wilder movies and looked like a reject from a Chico State catalog. Trying to save some scratch to get there we shared the gas bill and set off on the road to independent film land. When we arrived at Sundance and got to the condo we found they had us bunking up with the preverbal "guy on the couch" and a bunch of other guys discussing the relevance of old George Lucas vs. new George Lucas - yeah, fucking lame. We tried to join in the conversation but soon said screw it and went back to our shared room to crash for the night. Well, he couldn't sleep because of the time change and I couldn't sleep because he kept farting. I would like to think that no homoerotic thoughts were part of the night but after an uncomfortable hour and half of lying there and wishing for fresh air Gavin broke the silence...

"Let's get out of here and go get a drink," he said.

From that moment on we hit to the lily white bars of Park City and binged on the delicious 2.5% alcohol beers and doubles where we needed to pour the second shot in ourselves. Needless to say it took quite some time to garner an adequate buzz. The time allowed us to get to know each other. To dig deep and discover that going to movies about the Ramones & sitting through shitty short films is just much easier with alcohol. It was beautiful to find out that a pompous ass who likes Billy Wilder movies and a wildly attractive and yet rouged guy who likes Francious Truffaut movies could co-exist if they could drink together. Hell, they might even form a bond that would forge the beginning of what would become The Visual Underground.

Returning to San Diego with the west coast premiere of "The Ramones: End of the Century" documentary we hit the Ken Club, sold out and knew we had an awesome idea. People like to drink shit and do shit. We started at the Ken Club, moved to the Whistle Stop & were graduated to The Casbah.

7-8 or so years later with over 50+ shows, 3 Venues, 400+ films, 80+ bands and 60+ artists having worked with - THE VISUAL UNDERGROUND RETURNS!!!

This Friday October 29th, Gavin Allen, John-RyanShea & David Mishoulam will reunite for TVU Presents:SPOOKY VUE 6 "The Zombie Prom" at the Casbah.

We will be joined by artists:
JJ Hynes
Kelly Hutchinson (Dark Vomit)
The Infusion Project
Wendy Teague
Lindy Ivey.

Performing will be:
The Creepy Creeps &
The Lords of the New Removed Church (featuring Gary Shuffler)

The film fest continues and we surely will not disappoint - Let's just say a vampire and a menstrual cycle are part of it.

We would love to see you down there and to be part of one of San Diego's all time best Film+Rock+Art Shows (even though the beautiful and wildly talented Rosey panned one of our last shows - love you girl!).

FRIDAY - OCTOBER 29th @ The Casbah - Doors 8:30pm 21+
2501 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101

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San Diego Artist Heads To New York

I'm not really sure exactly when I met Susie, but I'm pretty sure it was through Twitter (@boygirlparty) after I bought a phone from her brother (@spinecraft). Susie Gharameni is a resident of Normal Heights and is just an all around awesome person, but her art is phenomenal. The art has overlying simplicity but is truly meticulous and complex. Her site has beautiful gifts, so much so that some asshole stationary company tried to bite her style. She's been featured all over the place, in design mags and on the front page of Etsy and most recently in Real Simple, and this weekend she'll have 50 paintings at the Giant Robot New York gallery. You can check out some pictures of a few of the pieces here.

I know most of this info probably doesn't help my friends in San Diego, I happen to know a few people living in NYC who should check out the show. Plus you can buy her goods anytime you want from her online shop.

For the full press release, click 'keep on reading'.


Giant Robot is proud to present Out and About, featuring new works by Kelly Tunstall and Susie Ghahremani.

Kelly Tunstall's experimental yet classically grounded portraits of stylized, leggy female figures with their pets, prey, and powers live in a captivating space between concrete reality and the dreamscapes of the supernatural. Integrating graphic expression, stylized representation, surrealism, and sketch, the California College of Arts and Crafts graduate has shown her work in galleries across America, Europe, and Japan.

For Out and About, Tunstall promises 20 to 30 original works capturing the magic of the mundane, with stylized representations of the people she encounters in her everyday life--"all ladies and most wearing fabulous necklaces." Using acrylic, pencil, pen, and ink, Tunstall explores the charming incongruities of the modern and not-so-modern woman.

Susie Ghahremani creates patchwork-inspired illustrations that are simple in design, complex in execution, and all-around pleasing to the eye. In addition to making two-dimensional art, she crafts tote bags, buttons, wallets, stationery, and other goodies. The RISD graduate has contributed work to Nickelodeon, Chronicle Books, and The New York Times, and was featured in the 2010 The Exquisite Book art book.

Inspired by patterns, crafts, and the natural world, Susie is creating super-detailed works for the show. Including a series of framed works, miniatures, and a few paintings on wood, the cool, retro-colored collection will also feature paintings from Susie’s recent stationery collection with Chronicle Books.

Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent.

A reception for the artists will be held from 6:30 - 10:00 on Saturday, September 4.

This Weekend: There Goes The Neighborhood

(photo courtesy ThereGoes.org)

We all love The Moviegoers, so I thought I'd share some information that Jessica asked me to pass along. She's an MFA student at UCSD and she and some other students have created a pretty stellar weekend of events.

There Goes The Neighborhood Official Page
Full event descriptions

Save the date for this four day event series examining the everyday through artistic interventions at the scale of the neighborhood.

There Goes the Neighborhood! is organized by a group of artists, architects and interested parties that takes place in the San Diego neighborhood of North Park. Events include a bicycle tour of thrift stores, a New Orleans style procession, mobile music shows on a former transit bus, a panel discussion on "Art, Neighborhood and Gentrification" at the San Diego Museum of Art, an artist's talk at a local diner, radio transmissions and an indoor picnic restaurant. TGTN! presents a way for residents to re-examine issues of public space, the role of institutions in the everyday happenings of a local community, and the impact of art-related practices on neighborhoods.

Particularly exciting to readers of this blog, the transit bus concert on Friday night should be absolutely nutso, featuring Mission: Valley, Innerds and Riverberb.

Visit There Goes The Neighborhood! or Agitprop for a complete schedule.

Read more about the event at Urbanist Blog

Transfer & AVicious team for music inspired visual installation

Transfer and AVicious, the VJ/Performance Video Design team out of Los Angeles CA, have worked together for many years. The collaboration began while working with John-Ryan Shea of The Visual Underground and then when TVU disbanded it migrated to JRS' new visual collaboration with partner and commercial Art Director Jeremy Glaholt - later named AVicious. We have toured together, created together and shared many a late night conversation in the back of a van on where the mediums of audio and video could go. Recently AVicious has pulled away from performing at many of Transfer's shows due to scheduling issues. So what has happened with the collaboration?
Last December Transfer and AVicious began working on a new installation project based on the song 'Enojado' from the new record Future Selves which Transfer released late last year. Enojado is an exploration of music video and live interactive space. Currently moving away from Stage 1 of the project, AVicious is beginning work on space design and electronic integration. What is coming is a new way to experience the band, the music and the medium itself. We will be updating our website with logs on our progress so please come by and check us out - AVicio.us. Below is a preview of the work done during Stage 1. XO

VII: An Open House Art Show

Uncovering Sin in Everyday Life

3524 Tennyson Street, San Diego, CA 92106
Reception: Saturday, May 9 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Show Hours: May 9 - 10 and May 16 - 17 12:00 - 5:00 pm

Pride. Greed. Envy. Wrath. Gluttony. Sloth. Lust. For seven centuries the seven deadly sins have captivated and inspired artists. Now the San Diego Mesa College Museum Studies Program tackles the issue with a postmodern look at sin in everyday life. More than thirty-five works by ten artists - ranging from emerging to established, and serious to satirical - were selected for their portrayals of cardinal sin. Through painting, sculpture, photography and video, these artists show us that sin is alive and well in contemporary society.



VII features work by eighteen-year-old Taylor Marie Prendergast, who reinterprets the intense Expressionism of Austrian painter Egon Schiele, no stranger to sin himself. Other artists include master carver Lorenzo Foncerrada, bringing his elegant Art Nouveau touch to sin. David Russell Talbott's pulp-inspired acrylics will shock and amuse, while Anna Stump's secretive wrapped paintings whisper of sin behind closed doors. Photographers Aaryn Belfer, Kelly Davis and Katie Gardner find sin in alleyways, county fairs, and bathrooms, and new media artist Lisa Hutton wrenches open our perspective on consumption and greed. These are just a few of the talents assembled in this exhibit.

VII is on view for two weekends only, at an open house in a private residence in Point Loma. Come for the sin, stay for the fun!

Sushi Arts: Post Card Show, 3.21.09

This Saturday night, fourteen artists will have postcards on display and on sale at Sushi Center For The Urban Arts, including my dear friend Randall Christopher, creator of Kleeman and Mike. The reception will be from 7-10pm.

From the curator:

Given that we are living through potentially the worst economic crisis that has faced the United States in 70 years, I was compelled to design a show that was “low-to-the-ground” and on the cheap. This has always been my bailiwick anyway and, with the new printing technology it has become possible to get postcards made at a very modest price.

“Postcards are purveyors of visual information. Often times the brief missive on the stamped side of the card references the image on the other side “Wish you were here!” or “X” marks the spot. It’s a short cut and a snap shot Postcards are, so to speak, the original “Text Message”; a way to say that you are thinking of someone; a friendly wave at a distance. At this point postcards may seem anachronistic; a vestigial tail on snail mail. But, like vinyl records, super-8 movies and V-8 engines, they have a resilient charm and poetic resonance that seems to resist the march of insistent progress.”

Additionally, there is a dance performance at 8pm.

In Transit II

Time: Saturday March 21 at 8pm
By Christen Sperry-Garcia in collaboration with dance choreographer Sara Pfeifle.

In Transit II investigates patterns of the global transference of bodies and information. Four dancers take on the role of migration, trans-national air travel, daily transit, and the global internet