Engineer's Daughter

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Mental Terror Impossible Mission (Rock Is Hell)

I can't rightly tell you how many songs are on this slab of one-sided transparent green vinyl (the B-side is devoted to a screenprint of flying skeleton-demons) because all of the tracks blend together into nigh-indistinguishable slices of awesomely damaged weirdness.  In fact I let the whole 6-minute side play from end to end on my show last Sunday just to give the full effect.  Highly recommended if you like Shit and Shine or anything else on the Rock Is Hell label.

formicate

King Khan & the Shrines, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco.  July 11, 2008.

i am always doing that which i cannot do in order that i may learn how to do it

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the comedy of errors

Through July 20 - The Comedy of Errors at Cal Shakes.  How many Shakespeare plays wouldn't be plays at all if one or more of the characters just applied a bit of critical thinking at a key moment?  Hint: all of them.  In the comedies at least that confusion just adds to the fun, and Cal Shakes amps the merriment up to 11 here as some instances of mistaken identity set off a cascade of misunderstandings and general hilarity.  Anchored by an masterful comic performance by Danny Scheie as Dromio (playing both of a set of separated-at-birth twins), the production features nonstop laughs from the talented cast of actors who truly succeed at making Shakespeare's lines sing.  This is the Bard as he is meant to be performed.

shreds

Burnt Ones / The Mallard split (Mt. St. Mtn.)

Two of my favorite local garage rock/fuzz pop bands that taste great together.  The Mallard is very sadly now defunct, but recapture some of the magic on their splattered-pink-vinyl side.  Meanwhile you can listen to the still-going-strong Burnt One's new track here.  Double-sided cover art is by Jay Howell (you may know him from Bob's Burgers), and the sleeve also has a very sexy debossed overprint going on.

bon vivant

SOMArts, San Francisco.  February 9, 2008.