AA Bondy at Cafe Du Nord

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Punk Passage at San Francisco Public Library

For those interested in punk rock, San Francisco, and photography, the SF public library will be hosting Punk Passage, an exhibit on the SF punk scene from 1977-1981. Included are photos from shows, posters and fliers, video footage, and other ephemera. Also of interest: tomorrow, Tuesday 9/17, there will be a panel discussion with band Queer Punk, and how being Queer influenced their music and their memories of the original SF punk scene. The exhibit runs through December 6. Read more at: http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/news/exhibitions.htm.

"The photographs represent some of San Francisco’s contribution to the international punk movement. The message is unabashed individualism, creativity, do-it-yourself activism and black humor. Bands such as The Avengers, the Dead Kennedys, the Dils, Crime, Sleepers, the Mutants and others are represented, placing them within the historic context as an important part of San Francisco’s counter-cultural history, as innovative for its time as the beat and hippie movements were."

Sunn O))) at the Independent

Sunn O))) at the Independent was immense! Here are a few of the photos I took sans flash with my Canon Powershot SX10IS:






More pics can be seen on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevor23 and a few more are at my pal Saudade's blog: http://saudadecrux.blogspot.com.

Chad VanGaalen

Saw this today on bridging the atlantic (a really good music blog--five remote friends sharing their musical discoveries) and saw fit to share...



Check out the eyelids--they rule!

Torture, Music, Copyright, and David Gray

Saw this article posted on Saudade's blog, and thought it worth re-posting here:

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2289778,00.html

I do have large issues with current copyright law (c'mon the DMCA? lame!). But should artists get royalties if their music is being used as a form of torture? I suppose that they should by American copyright law's standards, but I wonder if Mr. Grey will choose to pursue this...

Here I must quote saudade as I love puns; I, too, "want to see how this plays out."

The Scrambler!

I know there is a lot to read on the web. Wow--that's not only a grievous understatement, it's also totally misleading as it makes no mention of quality sites one wants to read. So let me re-phrase. There are so many sites on the web that you can't read them all even if you read as fast the Flash and read for the next five years; many sites, however, are not worth even the smallest bit of your time, and unfortunately you will miss many sites that you would love. One of these sites is The Scrambler.