6 posts tagged “birthday”
Roller skating on Saturday night is still the Main Event, as it were, but there are a few more ways I'm celebrating my birthday this week.
Thursday night, as if just for me on my birthday proper, the Pacific Film Archive is hosting their annual Cine/Spin event, where UC student DJs will be spinning live music over Luis Bunuel's film Simon of the Desert. Tickets are $9.50 general admission and the movie starts at 7:30.
And then Friday night one of my favorite local bands The Hot Toddies is playing at Blake's on Telegraph along with Or The Whale, Agent Ribbons and The Attachments. Tickets are $10 and the show starts at 9pm.
Come to one, come to all!
I'm turning 32 this year, and I've decided to celebrate by reliving one of my favorite childhood pastimes: roller skating!
Saturday, April 5
8:30 - 11pm
The Golden Skate, San Ramon
http://www.thegoldenskate.com/
$9 admission, $4 skate rental
I'm not renting a party room or anything, so no RSVP necessary. Just show up ready to fill up on candy and skate to the pop hits of today.
I'd better practice my backwards skate...
Happy birthday to my two favorite Moon Day babies! My brother Brent is 29 today, and Sophie is 8. That 4.2 quake we had this morning? That was for you!
At Braunstein/Quay Gallery - Ana Teresa Fernandez: Pressing Matters. Fernandez paints herself in the role of a housecleaner, but makes her uniform stiletto heels and a swanky little dress, effectively calling attention to ethnic stereotypes and the concept of "women's work". In her gorgeous paintings sometimes she takes the cleaning outside to a beach or to a windswept fence. Really, the task of keeping my house dust-free sometimes seems no more useful than trying to sweep the sand back into the ocean. I thought of the women at the beginning of Volver, polishing graves in the middle of a wind storm.
At Gregory Lind Gallery - A Serious Paradise. The theme of this show is visions of utopia, but it is eminently enjoyable even if you don't feel like getting your head tangled in such things. Yuko Murata's prarie dog above brought a huge grin to my face, and I also really loved Jason Middlebrook's giant psychedelic thistle silhouette. Beautiful stuff.
I'm DJing tonight:
Matokie
Friday night / Saturday morning
1-3:30am PST, Saturday July 21
KALX Berkeley 90.7fm
And then Sunday night KALX is sending me to Bimbo's to see Slint perform their album Spiderland in its entirety. Volunteering does have its privileges.
Happy birthday, Aimee! You take mamahood to new levels of kickassitude, you don't take bullshit (either personal or in the world at large) lying down, you know how to make me laugh when I'm crying...You are hands-down no-holds-barred the rulingest!
from Modern Times:
"July's debut collection of short stories is a startling, sexy, and tender collection. 'These stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound,' says author Dave Eggers. July explores the hearts and minds of characters who are desperate for human connection but don't know how to find it—or what to do when it actually happens."
I still haven't seen Me and You and Everyone We Know.
Some of my stream-of-consciousness from the most excellent Dinosaur Jr. show at Slim's last night:
Dudes. Dudes in flannel. Dude in an unironic Rush t-shirt. Wow that's sure a wall of amps. J, completely grey! Where are the tokers? Oh there they are. Those kids in Awesome Color are cute, but they could learn a thing or two from Dinosaur Jr. God I love Lou Barlow.
Science Thursday:
Lab logs fake-blood breakthrough | Live Science | Daily Mail |
Record nerds for the digital age | Wired | Slashdot |
Won't somebody think of the children?!
Stephen Colbert takes on the blatant and appalling liberal bias of institutions of higher learning.
-press images
"Yael Goldstein's debut novel, Overture, brings the reader into the world of classical music as well as the complex relationships between mothers and daughters. The novel also tackles the tensions that may develop between performers and composers. Poet Jane Hirshfield is a winner of the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. The Washington Post says Hirshfield 'comes up with poems that brilliantly portray even mundane experiences'."
Science Friday:
Faster than a speeding bullet | CNN | International Herald Tribune |
Fresh blood for all mankind | BBC | New Scientist |
Reminder: Picnic at my place tomorrow evening! And looking out the window right now, I surmise that you might want to bring a sweater.
I'm DJing this weekend:
Matokie
Sunday evening
9pm-midnight PST, Sunday April 8
KALX Berkeley 90.7fm
This is my new time slot until 6/10 or until the show is awarded, whichever comes first. The perfect way to dispel the Sunday night blues, let me tell you. But I know it's a crappy time for those of you not on PST, sorry!
The world's water:
Leonardo DiCaprio probes the water crisis and reminds us that "access to clean water is a basic human right."
I'm turning 31 this year, and I am neither going to ask you to freeze your ass off on the beach nor to risk your hearing at an over-loud club as I have in years past. Instead, please bring a blanket and your favorite items to nosh or drink and join me for a twilight picnic in my backyard.
Heidi celebrates 31
Saturday, April 7, 5pm onwards (sunset at 7:37pm)
Ping me for directions
Open invite, and no RSVP necessary. And hey, if it's cold or rainy we can just move the picnic into my apartment.
I hope to see you then!
