S P A C E C O W B O Y S

For those who are interested in how the Space Cowboys sausage is made, here’s an excerpt from an email from Space Cowboy James sent a couple days before the event opened. Pootie and crew were ushering the Mog to the playa, and Steve J was driving up Martha, and both faced and overcame adversity:

Both Steve’s get extra bonus points for their mechanical first aid procedures on their way to the playa. First off, Steve J. started his Burning Man adventure Friday night with transmission problems with Martha, and was able to limp back home to Sacramento whereas he proceeded to stay up until 5am welding on the transmission fluid pan to get a water tight seal. Then, he was rewarded with a tire blowout 20 miles outside of Empire where he made the wonderful discovery that Martha’s spare tire had been effectively sealed off and unaccessible given all of Martha’s mutant vehicle modifications. After cutting out the tire with a metal grinder, he got to replace the tire with no lug wrench, and part of his jack missing. He arrived Saturday afternoon, finally!

Steve H. (Pootie) and entourage had their own fun with the Mog in Reno. After being delivered via flatbed to Reno, they discovered that oil had gotten into the gasoline mix and fried all of the spark plugs. After doing an oil change and cleaning, then swapping all of the plugs (what fun in the parking lot of a Kragen in Reno on a 100+ temperature day), they proceeded to get the truck running, blowing black smoke for a while. Then, again near Empire, after stopping the truck wouldn’t start again, due to a fried/dead battery.

Hello Friendly Cocksucker:

Hey, sorry if this announcement is a bit surly—the aggro glow of Black Sabbath Pancakes still hasn’t worn off, I haven’t gotten used to brushing my teeth with toothpaste instead of tequila yet, I’m still suffering from the playa-lag weariness that results from spending my sleeping hours in a virtual sweat lodge, and my interpersonal skills are on par with those of a schoolyard bully. We had a Metric Fuck Ton™ of fun out there this year, and amazingly I’m already missing all our friends and family from the playa. To help ease our reintegration into the real world, this month’s version of our monthly party Fresh will be a 1 week reunion, where we coach each other on the social skills and etiquette that might’ve been left behind on the playa, swap stories of misery and carnage from the Exodus, or just get hammered:

This Friday, September 7th – FRESH FROM THE PLAYA @ SHINE Music by Space Cowboy DJs Brad Robinson, Mancub and 8ball Come in your dusty playa gear! Shine – 1337 Mission Street $5 / 9 – 2 www.shinesf.com

XO, 8ball at spacecowboys dot org

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Hello Friendly Person:

For the last couple days I’ve been getting schedules fired at me from DJs and theme camps so I’ll be sure not to miss single soul enriching moment on the playa.

It’s like Burning Man has become a multi-tracked convention, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing, but I have noticed that I’m stressed out. I’ve started an email folder just to hold onto all the reminders, schedules, lists, do not misses, that I’ve received. Next year we’ll all just load the whole playa schedule into Outlook and carry it around on PDAs. If in the future when BM finally stops changing year to year, Lonely Planet could get around to publishing the definitive tourist guide to BRC’s playa hot spots, corridors of bohemian charm, and hidden hoods “where the arty kids hang-out”.

Personally, I like the random shit. Maybe more than anything else. There are so many severely demented synchronous little scenes that just magically happen, like when a bunch of us were ridin’ dirty along the esplanade in Martha, and got pinned down under a barrage of fire from a pants cannon, and just before we could retreat someone pointed out that Adz had been abducted by some twisted game show, and before we could get him back on board the show host double-dog-dared him to publicly smear a handful of wasabi on his junk, which he did right before he started crying like a little girl. Only at Burning Man, man. There’s definitely value in the planned happenings, but never in a million years would anyone plan to put wasabi on their junk. Not planning is when the magic happens. (Unless you’re a stoner, in which case you probably never leave camp, you lazy buttholes.)

So, with that off my chest, I’ll now proceed to provide you, Friendly Person, with a list of Space Cowboy events and happenings that you will only ignore at the risk of your everlasting salvation, happiness, and enlightenment. Forget God, forget prayer, forget meditation—this is your one and only chance to get to heaven by attending all these events. Some of these events might overlap or be at the same time. That’s not my problem. If you can’t figure out how to be in two places at the same time perhaps you’re not worthy of salvation anyway.

xo, 8ball@spacecowboys.org (writer) & andrea@spacecowboys.org (editor)

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SPACE COWBOYS (Unimog)

KMOG – 104.1, live FM transmissions from the UniMog all week long in Black Rock City

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Monday Humouroboros Playa Premier! Unimog at sunset with the Monkey Snake himself!!

Unimog at Blackout at 12:00 & Perimeter Fence (directly behind the man) Midnight to sunrise with Friction, J9 vs. Evinrude , Haj , Flook , Random Rab, & Aaron Jae

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Tuesday Unimog at False Profit 3:30 & Esplanade with Mancub, Aaron Jae, Glitch Mob, and more

Aaron Jae 945-1030 at opulent temple j9 9pm-sunrise Get Lost 2:00 and Intertidal- look for an 8’ x 8’ Rubik’s Cube.

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Wednesday

We’ll be cruising over to the Deep End around 2:30pm for Mancub sets Space Cowboy tag team at 7pm with 8ball & Brad Robinson and more Unimog will be out and about, escorting the troops Mancub plays from 1-2am at Green Gorilla, 445-545 am at Rednose District

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Thursday Unimog at the Steam Punk Tree House – inner playa Space Cowboy Djs on the Unimog all night long

Space Cowboy DJs Mancub, Brad Robinson & Evinrude at Dustfish – 9:30 & Esplanade

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Friday Black Rock Hoe Down – somewhere out there Unimog and Space Cowboy DJs & Friends and very special guests Our annual BRC get down, hope to see you!

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Saturday – Paradox Lounge Happy Hour – starting at 4:00 & Esplanade and headed about the playa. We’re mobile!!

Saturday post burn – possibly Thunderdome Other shenannigans TBD

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Sunday Black Sabbath Pancake Breakfast at CAMP CARP Wouldn’t be Burning Man without an afternoon of the Ramp of Death

Sunday night – Temple Burn

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Evinrude suggests:

Pool Party in Reno – After the Burn Knaaponkrap Eatonswim – Afterburn Poolside – Sept. 3 & 4th Nexus in cooperation with all your friends proudly present the first annual Knaaponkrap Eatonswim Monday and Tuesday in lovely downtown Reno Nevada at the Grand Sierra Resort.

Lineup is being finalized and is scheduled to include a wide variety of the best the playa has to offer including some really good live sets from Ooah, Evinrude, Aaron Jae, Donna Matrix & more. Performance art, fire, go go’s, and such are included as well and anyone interested in lighting themselves on fire or freaking out in some way on stage is welcome.

Tickets at : www.brownpapertickets.com/event/19042 CODE WORD for discount rooms when calling the Grand Sierra Resort: ZBURN POOL PARTY LOCATION: NIKKI BEACH HOTEL: GRAND SIERRA RESORT 800-501-2651

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THEN – when you’re back in SF and can’t help thinking about us:

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Friday Sept 7th FRESH from the Playa at SHINE A Space Cowboys Re-union

With the fence-sitter djs:

Brad Robinson Mancub 8ball

Friday, Sept. 7th 2007 Shine – 1337 Mission at 10th 9pm-2am – $5 – 21+

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Saturday Sept 29th Love Fest – http://lovefestsf.com First in the Parade, rocking Civic Center, with Space Cowboy Djs and special guest Rogue Element.

We will have 241 passes forthe After the Love party at the Unimog during LoveFest

The Unimog will be rocking the best LoveFest after party with the Space Cowboys DJs on board.

SEISMIC presents AFTER The Love Love Fest After Party Saturday. September 29th 9:00PM – 5:00AM At Mighty, 119 Utah Street (@15th) $20 at the door before midnight

SLYDE – First SF Apperance! (Fingerlickin’ Records, UK) The Rogue Element (Exeptional Records, UK) International Breaks Award “Best Producer” 2006

Murphstar (SEISMIC) Emerge (Disfunktion Crew) Brett Pinkin (SEISMIC) Malarkey (The Juke Joint) Jive (FiX) And The Bootie Mashup Room with DJs: Adrian & the Mysterious D and Party Ben

Discount Pre-Sale Tickets and more info at www.seismicsf.org

BE SAFE~SEE YOU ON THE PLAYA!

Unlike a lot of sound system camps, we don’t really have lineups figured out before we head for the playa (aside from the Hoe Down, of course).

The Mog is a roaming system, and we like to create impromptu happenings, which leads to ad hoc scheduling; sometimes setting up DJs on the Mog and sometimes just plugging the Mog into some other camp’s sound system to support their DJs.

We have a lot of friends, family and favorites we’d like to get on the decks at some point, but given our transitory and somewhat nomadic nature, committing to a specific time slot is difficult. If you’re interested in playing on the Mog, you should definitely contact us, send a mix to your favorite Space Cowboy point-of-contact, but please don’t be offended if you get a less than committal response. The best bet for playing on the Mog is to be there when a DJ steps off and another one doesn’t step on.

We’ll post some of our more definite plans soon.