Don't give out nothing for free!
Hello Friendly Person:
It’s that time again, when all our favorite theme camps get all snot-nosed and whining because they just figured out the 2 tons of angle iron they need to convert a ‘74 school bus into a roaming city of light and delight complete with water features and a fully articulating, giant-sized fire breathing lemur costs a lot of a fuck of a lot of money.
Rather than financing projects the American way – by borrowing and stealing (the way government finances the war) – theme camps have to pay as they go, which necessitates the raising of funds, and that means it’s fundraiser season.
I’m not saying I don’t support the arts, hell, I’m supporting them tomorrow night (see below), but what I AM saying how about being a little more creative with the fundraising, huh guys? Sure, throwing a party is a great way to add FUN to your DRAISER, but when that’s the only business model at work we quickly run short of a critical resource: Weekends. And as we get closer to Burning Man, the ratio of fundraisers to weekend increases to a gangbang-like frenzy. In light of this phenomenon, I’d like to suggest we consider new and different ways of getting our endz. In the past I’ve proposed ideas like the “Fundraiser Season Tickets” and a Burner Cookie Drive (think Girl Scouts, but spinning fire). Well, here’s the latest addition to the series: Sliding Scale Sex. Whether with a boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, random hookup in an alley, friend-with-privileges or with the old lady who lives next-door with privileges, I’m saying it’s time to stop giving it up for free! “But wait,” you might say, “Wouldn’t charging for a taste of my goodies make me a ho?” To which I would say, “No, it does not. Charging for a taste of your goodies makes you a conscientious and responsible member of your soon to be solvent theme camp. And so I applaud you.” If you charge only what’s fair and use a sliding scale so no one is turned away for lack of funds, you’ll ensure a good time is had by all! And of course this pay-for-play concept can be extended to all your social intersections. For example, the next time your friends suggest going out for dinner, run a meter like a cabbie, and charge by the hour with a bump for each course. Make your phone a 999 number. Charge when tourists ask for directions. Don’t do anything without getting paid. It might seem strange at first, but just think of that toilet seat lined with pink fur that will be mounted on a 60-foot tower in the middle of your camp, and you’ll know you did the right thing.
PS: Space Cowboy Mr. Pickles and I are co-hosting FRESH on Friday, May 4th @ Shine, or FRESCO de MAYO, if you will… Expect maracas, piñatas, and of course lots of tequila! And the $5 cover only applies to gringos who aren’t wearing sombreros, lucha masks, or other fiesta attire!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, April 28 – SOEX MARKS THE SPOT
8Ball’s lending the more eclectic selections of his music collection to Southern Exposure’s Annual Spring Fundraiser and Art Auction, this Saturday.
SomArts, Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street
7pm – 11 | More info
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Saturday April 28th – MONKEY
Join us Saturday, April 28th, for MONKEY: a banana peelin’, vine swingin’, primal primate throwdown featuring two rooms of boom to shake your prehensile tail ‘til the early morn’! 100% of Proceeds to Benefit “Homouroboros”; Peter Hudson’s next playa masterwork. Everyone involved has volunteered to support the production of Peter’s next stroboscopic zoetrope.
In the Art Barn, you’ll view Peter’s past work and speculate on the scope of homouroboros. You can also buy limited edition homouroboros tees, bandannas, panties and more. Plus, preserve your posterior for posterity. Live ass-casting is back! And with all our favorite Playa sound camps and DJ’s under one roof, this is a rare opportunity for those allergic to playa dust to hear some Black Rock legends.
Monkey Room
Laird, Fred Funk, Shissla, Cut la’What v. Tyler T, An-ten-nae, J9 v. ViaJay, Jive v. Smoove, Ernie Trevino v. Ethan Miller
Guerrilla Lounge
Laird, Aaron Pope, Radio Active, El Papa Chango, Tamo
The Porn Palace 415 Jessie St. (@ 6th)
9PM – Very late
$20 Donation
Burning Man Ticket Raffle! (At Midnight)
COSTUMES encouraged/rewarded: Show me the MONKEY!!!
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Friday, May 4 – FRESH presents FRESCO de MAYO
Can’t say enough about this muy especial edition of the Space Cowboy monthly party… or should I say FIESTA!? Expect maracas, piñatas, and of course lots of tequila!
With Vaqueros del Espacio DJs rrrus and OtcoBola
..,. and muy especial guest shOOey!
Hosted by Señor Pickles and 8Ball
@ Shine – 1337 Mission Street
9PM – 2AM
$5 cover only applies to gringos who aren’t wearing sombreros, lucha masks, or other fiesta attire!
Shinesf.com
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Friday, May 4th – Where Da Partyz At
A Birthday Celebration for Morris Mizrahi
9:30 -10:30pm Tall Sasha
10:30 – 12:00 Brad Robinson
12:00 – 1:00 Laird
1:00 – 2:00 Dirtyhertz
Duplex Nighclub
1525 Mission street, San Francisco, CA
9pm to 2am
NO COVER CHARGE
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Friday, May 4th – UNITED UNDERGROUD
SEISMIC has partnered up with Opel and Big Smile for a gathering of the Underground Crews of San Francisco. Underground United will feature three rooms of sound and 17 of San Francisco’s finest DJs. This All Nighter has everything from Dirty Breaks to Funky House, Techno to Electro. Come on out and support your local underground.
Murphstar (SEISMIC), KID606 (Tigerbeat6), Mancub (Space Cowboys), Syd Gris (Opel productions), Galen (Pacific/Sunset), Christian Martin (Dirtybird), Lemonade (live), Anthony Mansfield (Tweekin, Green Gorilla), Ryan Poulsen (Gunclub), Eric Sharp (Rock it Science), Fred Funk (Brasstax), DJ Seven (NK7), Laird (Get Yer Freak On), Bryan James (Moxie), Brad Robinson (Space Cowboys), Mi Ami (live), DJ XSV, Aaron Pope (Deep End), Felix the Dog (Groundscore)
10:00 PM – 6:00 AM
3 BIG Rooms
Only $5 before midnight – an easy $10 after
For Event Location and More Info Call: 415-762-0155
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Saturday, May 5th – HOUSE OF LOTUS Cinco de Mayo
Oye Compadres! Casa de Lotus is pleased as tequila-laced punch to invite you and yours to our ‘Cinco de Mayo’ costume party – the annual Burning Man fundraiser for House of Lotus. !Vamos a hacer una fiesta super-grande! Join us, Saturday, May 5th at our Mexicali-style throw-down for the best in bordello bacchanalia. Located at a brand new underground space – with two rooms of sound plus a chill space in case ya get too caliente. We got tequila. We got cerveza. We got bass. We got a tricked out photo booth so you capture los memories especiale!
Costume attire strongly encouraged…so strap on yer six-shooters, dust off them cowboy boots and come git down with your favorite House of Lotus DJs: Saturday, May 5th – 10PM to 6AM Alibi (House of Lotus), Ben Maybe (House of Lotus), Beth Murphy (House of Lotus), DeepEddy (House of Lotus), Neeziack (House of Lotus), Shissla (House of Lotus) + special guests ManCub (SpaceCowboys), El papa chango (El Circo), Murphstar (Seismic), Aaron Pope (DeepEnd)
$15 pre-sale @: http://cinco.eventbrite.com/
$20 at the door
Underground location to be posted at www.houseoflotus.com on May 4th.
Please do NOT forward this to large, non-moderated mailing lists…space will be limited and we want to keep this low pro in the extended Burning Man community.
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Sunday, May 6 – The How Weird Experiment
Featuring:
Noize [Lawgiverz] (Trigger)
Kapt’n Kirk (Space Cowboys) 6pm – 7pm
Goldilox (Sleevin Records)
Porter Tinsley (PorterTinsley.com)
Neptune (Beat Church/Spiritual Technologies)
novaTRON [Live Hardware PA] (Space Island)
Friction (yno5.com/Purgatory Cruiser)
Plus Fringe Collective DJ’s
Mycho Cocoa, Motion Potion,Victor Vega, Big Dolla Bill, Tim Dietz
Fat City
314 11th Street
5:30pm til 2:00am (music starts at 6pm)
Only $5 All Night!
21+
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Thursday, May 10th – Evinrude says:
For all those Santa Cruz folks who constantly kick things in frustration since they always have to travel to SF hear good beats – and which is usually impossible on a weeknight – on Thursday, May 10th, I’m bringin’ ‘em to you! Lil’ John has invited me down to Flipside, his weekly at the Cardiff Lounge (529 Seabright Ave Santa Cruz CA) 10pm -2am / 21 and up / $3. If you live in the area… well, I’m jealous… but come have a drink and say hi.
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Friday, May 11th – STIMULUS: Excursions into Electrotech
Our first time out was more fun than a ball of hamsters. So much fun, in fact, that, going against the advice of our therapists, priests, rabbis, and caddies, we’re once again gathering a select assortment of DJs to present their personal flavor of electrotech. The second Friday of May, Stimulus-Response Productions presents:
Featuring (in alphabetical order):
Erik Hz (FreeDumb Force Recordings / BABB – SF)
Evinrude (Stimulus / Space Cowboys / NetAmp – SF)
Jocelyn (Get Freaky – SF)
Kinesis (Stimulus – Santa Cruz)
Raydeus (Pronoia – SF)
– and coming to us from Seattle:
Swank (United House Front / C89.5FM – Seattle)
10pm – 4am
Le Duplex, 1525 Mission St., SF
$5 before 11pm, $10 after; 21+
Call 1-888-650-6660 for more info.
Space Cowboys in the news + events!
It has been a busy week in the Space Cowboy administrative offices keeping track of all of the links and shout outs we’ve received from the likes of Wired, CNET, sfgate, all praising the efforts of the talented crews who help put together Yuri’s Night last week down at Moffet Field.It was not the Unimog’s first appearance at Yuri’s Night, and hopefully not the last. We had a great time rocking on the tarmac while NASA security gave us props on the music and our truck. Not to mention the huge crowd getting down in front of her bass. A big thanks to everyone who worked on, came out, rocked on and supported this night. We hope a greater appreciation for Space was at least one of the things you left with that night.
For those of you who missed it, here a just a few links and photos to check out:
From SFGate: The Space Cowboys’ UNIMOG has a few hundred people’s bootys on fire just a dozen yards from barbed wire fences.
From Business2.com: ...Space Cowboys – the Bay Area’s hottest DJ posse – were on hand with their Burning Man art car, the Unimog, to lead the dance.
And an article on News.com
A mention in this article on Wired
And also from Wired
And from Scott Beale
For those of you who are tired of FOMO – here are a few more opportunities to check out your local Space Cowboy DJs:
Friday April 20th, 2007
Mighty Breaks presents A Finger Lickin’ Thang
with beat bashers The Drumattic Twins!
Mighty – 119 Utah @ 15th
$15 at the door before midnight
$10 presales availableTheir visas are sorted, the dex n’fx show is packed and they have their eyes locked on SF. We were disappointed with the problems in January, and have got everything aligned for next weeks show. It will be the premier Finger Lickin’ performance in San Francisco for the Drumattics, nowhere else but Mighty. Check out the exclusive mighty breaks mix
Joining the drums are local rockers: Murphstar (SEISMIC)
rrrus (Space Cowboys)
Trav (SEISMIC)
Syd Gris (Opel)
Kramer (djkramer.com)### Saturday April 21 OPULENT TEMPLE PRESENTS: EVOCATION Porn Palace, 415 Jesse @ 6th $10 playa wear, $20 street clothes
With Carbon Community (Sober Music / Bless, Dallas TX) Aaron Jae (Evil Breaks / Space Cowboys) Evinrude (Space Cowboys) and more…
Please come in your sexy playa best.
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Saturday April 28th MONKEY 9PM – Later – Later! The Porn Palace 415 Jessie St. (@ 6th) $20 Donation Burning Man Ticket Raffle!
Join us Saturday, April 28th, for MONKEY: a banana peelin’, vine swingin’, primal primate throwdown featuring two rooms of boom to shake your prehensile tail ‘til the early morn’! 100% of Proceeds to Benefit “Homouroboros”; Peter Hudson’s next playa masterwork. Everyone involved has volunteered to support the production of Peter’s next stroboscopic zoetrope.
Come see why: www.hudzo.com
In the Art Barn, you’ll view Peter’s past work and speculate on the scope of homouroboros. You can also buy limited edition homouroboros tees, bandannas, panties and more. Plus, preserve your posterior for posterity. Live ass-casting is back! And with all our favorite Playa sound camps and DJ’s under one roof, this is a rare opportunity for those allergic to playa dust to hear some Black Rock legends.
Monkey Room Lineup (main room)
An-ten-nae (Get Freaky) vs. Laird (Get yer’ Freak on!) Ernie Trevino (Space Cowboys) vs. Ethan Miller (FNF) Anthony Garlic (Green Gorilla) vs. Fred Funk (Brass Tax) Syd Gris (Opel) vs. Shissla (House of Lotus) j9 (Angels of bAss) vs. Viajay (Angels of bAss) and more!!
The Guerilla Lounge (front room)
The rumble in this jungle will be brought by the legendary Radio Active. Master MC, beatboxer, writer, painter, and b-boy, Radio Active was a longtime member of Spearhead. For those of you unfamiliar with the true art of vocal percussion, prepare to get old-schooled.and El Papa Chango’s gonna be dropping Latin Guerilla BOMBS long into the night!
Guerrilla Lounge Lineup:
Radio Active (Live MC/Beat-box) El Papa Chango (El Circo), Tamo (Angels of bAss), Aaron Pope (The Deep End)
COSTUMES encouraged/rewarded: Show me the MONKEY!!!
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Friday May 4th FRESH at Shine Another installment of Fresh underway, this time hosted by 8ball (or maybe H8ball?) and Mr. Pickles. Lineup and workup TBA – watch this space: http://spacecowboys.org
NASA Raves
The Cowboys have been part of some pretty cool things for sure, leading the SF Love Parade three years in a row or increasing the risk of an avalanche at Squaw are just a couple that come to mind. But this past Friday, April 13th, 2007 has to be one of the more surreal ones. In honor of Yuri’s Night, the NASA Ames Research Center down at Moffett Field flung the doors wide open on the 211 Hangar and invited an eclectic mix of the science/tech community to mingle with Burner culture. Feeling a bit like a science fair and a lot like the playa with robots, art and a couple big planes for the hell of it, the night was more fun than an erector set on acid!
The Mog was in full effect on the tarmac and anytime she’s out, there’s always lots of curious bystanders peeking their heads in, asking questions and commenting on how neat she is. The difference this time was a lot of those inquisitive strangers were NASA officials and security which made it that much cooler. The general good spirits of everyone at NASA was impressive, they all seemed to have a great sense of humor and were very welcoming to the revelers. As for the party itself, the Cowboys “sound” was a great counter-balance to the headliners Plaid and Tefon tel Aviv, who are a little more chill than our standard fare. Once we were allowed to go full blast with her after midnight, it was pretty sweet to see just as many people shakin’ their thang in front of the Mog as there were inside the hangar.
The Cowboys have had close ties to Yuri’s Night since it’s inception, due to the fact that HellDog’s own sister Loretta and husband George are the founders. Needless to say we were more than excited for an excuse to party at NASA! It was very cool to be part of such a unique event and it sounds like this wont be the last time.
Here’s to you Yuri Gagarin, the original Space Cowboy!
More:
- Party in a NASA Hangar Gives a Glimpse of Space Culture
- A Tale of Two Possible NASA Futures: Yuri’s Night and The National Space Symposium
- Geek Entertainment TV (with terrible commentery and way too many mentions of “anal probes”)
- Yuri’s Night Flickr Pool
