9 out of 10 Santas …
Posted December 19, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Das Haus Band at The Stork Club in Oakland Friday
PianoFight’s home grown German post-minimalist-avant-surf-rock band, Das Haus Band, will be opening for the She Beards friday night at the Stork Club. Expect to see the black denin wearing, pure sound seeking rockers take the stage around 10:30PM. For a small taste of what is to come, check out this vid from a recent DHB rehearsal.
SCHNELL!
-Duncan
Posted December 16, 2011 at 12:24 am
The Adventures of Tom Tom – Midflight
Sometimes, people are up to no good. Other times, people are blissfully walking down the streets of Lower Nob Hill singing loudly to themselves various showtunes and Sinatra tunes and spur of the moment tunes and thinking about how the blues began and getting offered various accoutrements de le vive that they may or may not require. Some days, we can relate to the one who is staring back at our eyeballs in mirrors. Other days, a resemblance of something or someone else predominates. This person or thing may or may not be cooler than average as he or she jaunts through SOMA on a warmer-than-frigid midwinter evening. Either way, Tom Tom is going to die soon. He doesn’t know it yet, but this world is yearning for his passage, whence another awaits.This marks the beginning of the end, the days are numbered few until the DEATH OF TOM TOM.
Thanks Sincerely,
Andy
Posted December 15, 2011 at 1:25 am
Mission CTRL, Internet, and TV Have 3-Parent Baby – TV a la Modem
Mission CTRL is pleased to announce that, in partnership with SideReel.com, we’ve at last gone quasi-viral.
SideReel.com is a Hulu of sorts – except with more shows, less commercials and more free-ness. Ever the ultimate champion of the voracious media-consumer, the SideReel warriors are now interested in producing original content of their own. Which is where Mission CTRL comes in. My dear, very-talented friend Eliseo Cabrera, an editor/producer at SideReel, played matchmaker, linking up content-hoster with content-creator – and YOU, the viewer, wins!
We, Mission CTRL, have signed on to create weekly shorts centered around all the hottest shows. Every week, we’ll be filming and posting a new episode of TV a la Modem – essentially a tube take on whatever strikes our fancy in the world of television (via the internet, of course). So far, it’s been Ashton Kutcher on Two and a Half Men (below) and silly glee club names on Glee (above). Going forward, we’ll be exploring takes on New Girl, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Parks & Rec, Community, etc – all in the good spirit of true television fans.
Posted December 14, 2011 at 11:59 am
Bochan Drops New Album
Arlen Hart, who’s currently in town playing the score he wrote for FORKING II: A Merry FORKING! Christmas live each night, has got another budding career on the side – record producer. He and Ben Meyer, who runs SoundVise in NY (which co-produced A FORKING! Album with PianoFight), got together with Bochan Huy to produce her first album Full Monday Moon which drops today. Bochan, a Bay Area native who’s played a couple PianoFight shows including ShortLived, is a stellar vocalist, electric performer and enthralling songwriter. She’s also very sexy. And Cambodian-American! So if you’ve got a minute, check out her new album Full Monday Moon and support local music.
-Rob
Posted December 13, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Future Friends of PianoFight – SantaCon SF
Every year in the City, thousands of completely wasted San Franciscans use the upcoming Christmas holiday as an excuse to don their Santa digs in an all-out mayhem of drunkenness and debauchery that slathers its way through the Bay Area on an agreed-upon December Saturday for an event lovingly dubbed SantaCon. A newcomer to the city, Leah Shesky, who plays Charlotte the Mortician in A Merry FORKING! Christmas, went out on the town for an investigative report to see what the hubbub was all about. The lewd comments made by the participants may be too vulgar for e-print, but she did have this photo to share. Looks like there are plenty of FORKING fans in the making out there this season! See you at Stage Werx 446!
Get your TICKETS to A Merry FORKING Christmas! before they’re all forking gone!
TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS
Posted December 12, 2011 at 6:16 pm
WTFriday – Merry FORKING Christmas Card from OuterSpace
After last night’s FORKING show (which was recently declared “a local tradition” by 7x7SF – what what!), upon excavations in closets and foreign lands, searching for a relevant yet wacky WTFriday post, we have managed to dig up an archival photo of some silverware from outerspace that we happened to be visiting as part of our own “local tradition” during the holidays. Well, these guys (and gal) have traditions all their own, being outerspacian flatware and all. Ahh, memories, the high-tech long-exposure camera we used actually literally captured the speech of the utensils.
Now hurry up & get tickets to go see MERRY FORKING CHRISTMAS, it’s “a local tradition”!!!
-A&A
Posted December 9, 2011 at 10:28 am