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dive in ROCKTOBER 2012 Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com After all those summer festivals end, I instantly start to think about how things are going to slow down now that it’s fall. I love summer, so about now I usually start to think how it’s going to suck because it’s getting dark earlier and there’s going to be less to do, not as many bands are going to tour through, there will be less local CD release shows for us to cover, etc. Then, October gets here and I always realize it rocks just as hard as all those jam-packed summer months! Proof: Take a peak at our expanded calendar section this issue starting on page 20! Don’t sleep in October, people. As always, we have a few of our favorite events highlighted in our “Submerge Your Senses” section. Learn more about cool local things to do like a Grown-up Spelling Bee or the Midtown Arts Festival on page 8. This time around we have three music features. First, I hereby declare Red Fang one of the most worthy bands for a cover this issue since it’s Rocktober. This incredible metal band is coming back to Sacramento to once again shred our faces off. Maybe you saw them at the sold out Ace of Spades when they opened for Mastodon? Well now their U.S. headlining tour with Black Tusk starts right here in Sacramento on Oct. 26 at Harlow’s. Read about these cheap-beer loving, gritty distortion craving road-dogs starting on page 16. We happen to feature two bands from Portland, Ore., this issue. On top of Red Fang, we’ve featured The City of Roses’ Starfucker, who also will be playing Harlow’s. So if electronic music is more of your thing, or you’re like me and like both genres, you should definitely read about them on page 30 and then dance your ass off on Oct. 17. On our back cover we have Sacramento’s Be Brave Bold Robot, a band who we’ve wanted to feature before but never did due to bad timing. With a bit more notice for this album release we have featured the band in one of my favorite fashions, a sort of ride-along tale. Learn more about this happy, fun folk band and how you might be able to become a “Forever Member” starting on page 10. And be sure to catch them for their upcoming release show at Beatnik Studios on Oct. 26. One thing that is also synonymous with October is snowboard movie premiere parties. Though it almost feels like torture, I can appreciate a good snowboard film in the fall, because it’s the only thing in the world that can really get me excited that winter is on its way. On Oct. 19 Ground Zero Board Shop premieres two movies at Ace of Spades, and on page 32 we discuss one of the movies, Mind the Video Man, with snowboard guru and filmmaker Jesse Burtner. Last but not least there’s no denying that October is a time of plentiful harvest. When learning about Feeding Crane Farms briefly a few weeks ago at their booth at Sacramento Burger Battle, I knew I wanted to feature them in an upcoming issue. Lo and behold they had a lot more going on than their now postponed Harvest Festival. Read up on this fascinating, ever growing Natomas farm and their plans for the former Steel Magnolia commercial kitchen, now known as LuLu’s Kitchen, starting on page 14. Enjoy issue #121 and happy Rocktober! Melissa-Dubs
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Send regional news tips to info@submergemag.com If you love slasher flicks and zombie chicks, gutwrenching screams and ghoulish dreams, the sixth annual Sacramento Horror Film Festival is for you. Going down from Oct. 12 through 14 at the historic (and somewhat creepy at night) Colonial Theatre, located at 3522 Stockton Boulevard, SHFF will feature dozens of scary short films as well as cult classics like Night of the Demons (in gorgeous 35mm) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (the film plays on screen while Amber’s Sweets performance cast acts it out on stage). Also check out the Zombie Beauty Pageant on opening night put on by Zom-Bee Channel and Cinema Insomnia, where the top 13 sexy undead contestants will compete for the title of Miss Zom-Bee Queen on stage and a grand prize package that includes a new ROKU streaming player, a pinup spread for Horrorhostmagazine.com, a TV guest spot on Cinema Insomnia and a spokesmodel stint for Zom-Bee Channel, a new streaming horror channel on ROKU. Another highlight of this spooky festival is a live performance from Creature Feature (pictured) who can best be described as, “A band that becomes Halloween 365 days a year, a band that forces you to remember why you used to sleep with the lights on and fear the bumps in the night,” according to their website (Creaturefeaturemusic.com). Purchase your SHFF three-day pass collectors badge before Oct. 11 and it’s just $30 ($50 at the door) and that includes access to all cult screenings, performances, concerts, special screenings, shorts programs, feature films and more. Single-day tickets are available as well. Visit Sachorrorfilmfest. com for more details on how to purchase tickets and more information on the films that will be screened.
Sacramento-based controversial rappunk trio Death Grips again caused a shit storm last week when they leaked its new album NO LOVE DEEP WEB on the Internet after their label (Epic Records) apparently told the group they couldn’t confirm a release date. “The label wouldn’t confirm a release date for NO LOVE DEEP WEB ‘till next year sometime,’” Death Grips tweeted, followed by, “The label will be hearing the album for the first time with you.” True to its word, the next day the group released the album along with its graphic album art (a hairy, erect penis with the album title sloppily written on it in black marker) for free on a number of file sharing websites including their own, Thirdworlds.net, which was later shut down (the band claimed their label did it). What nobody can figure out for sure, although every music blog under the sun is trying, is if Epic was in on the whole thing all along, making for the most brilliant PR move ever, or if Death Grips really are crazy-as-fuck and doing whatever they want with an album that was paid for by Epic. Either way, the damage is done, the new album is out, tens of thousands have downloaded it and the band has since stated (again via social media) that they “have no idea when the new album will be physical or if it ever will be.” Sonically NO LOVE DEEP WEB is tough to wrap your head around. It’s far darker and (for me at least) much harder to get into than the more pop-y (I use that term loosely) The Money Store, which Epic actually legitimately released earlier this year. After a few listens through it’s growing on me, although I will admit it’s a bit awkward when an erect dick pops up on my phone every time I click on a track. See and hear for yourself at Thirdworlds.net, as of press time the website was back up and was still offering the album as a free download.
Sacramento Ballet’s co-artistic director Ron Cunningham’s 25th Anniversary Season will kick off Oct. 18 through 21 with Romeo and Juliet at the Community Center Theater (1301 L Street). Founded in 1954 by Barbara and Deane Crockett, the Sacramento Ballet is undeniably one of the region’s finest arts companies. Cunningham took over as artistic director in 1988 after Ms. Crockett had retired two years prior, and in 1989 Cunningham was joined by his wife Carinne Binda and the two became co-artistic directors. Ever since, according to their website (Sacballet.org), “Cunningham and Binda have successfully chosen ballets that balance public appeal with works that stretch and develop the artistic capabilities of the dancers.” Cunningham’s Romeo and Juliet will not be seen again until the 2017 season, so don’t miss your chance to see what he himself calls “the absolute best choreography of my career.” The Oct. 18, 19 and 20 performances start at 7:30 p.m., with Oct. 21 starting at 2 p.m. Ticket prices range from $17 to $70, so even budget-minded individuals should be able to see this masterpiece. Two hundredplus period-inspired costumes, beautiful sets and scenery, pageantry, swordplay, drama and amazing choreography tell the story without words. Trust us, you’ll be left with goosebumps (and maybe tears) after feeling the emotions these dancers can bring out of you. For more information on how to become a season subscriber or to purchase individual tickets, visit Sacballet.org.
We usually aren’t ones to toot our own horn here at Submerge, but we just can’t help it this time. We are very proud to announce that we’ve been nominated for an Arts Journalism Award by the Sacramento Arts and Business Council! The Arts Journalism Award honors journalists for “covering the regional arts scene during the past year with accuracy, vigor and relevance.” We’re nominated alongside Tim Foster of the now-defunct Midtown Monthly (which we loved and were sad to see fold earlier this year) and Dennis Spear of N magazine. I’m not going to say that I think we should win…eh, fuck it, I think we should win. When it comes to regional coverage of all things art and music, there’s nobody in the game as relevant as Submerge. But, even if we don’t win, it’s still an absolute honor to get a nod of approval from the Arts and Business Council and we’re very grateful. The awards ceremony, titled Growing Artistree: 25th Annual Prelude to the Season, is happening on Friday, Oct. 12 at Woodlake Hotel (formerly Radisson) starting at 11 a.m. Tickets can be purchased to the event at Sacabc.org or by calling (916) 442-2005. Our hats are off to anyone who has ever contributed to Submerge. This nomination couldn’t have been possible without you! And congrats to all of the outstanding arts organizations and individuals nominated!
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• For the second year in a row, October will be transformed into ARTober, and on Oct. 20 the Midtown Arts Festival will feature all kinds of performers and artists. The festivities will take place outside of the MARRS Building (1050 20th Street) from noon to 6 p.m. The SMUD Performing Arts Stage will host dance groups like Jodette’s Belly Dance Academy, Step 1 Dance and Fitness and the Submerge Band Stage will host The Royal Jelly, Sicfus, Ross Hammond and others. An array of booths featuring local artists and crafts will be open for browsing and shopping. There will also be a kid’s arts area and lots of interactive art activities for guests of all ages. Visit the craft beer area, Untapped, featuring many of Sacramento’s diverse breweries and maybe you’ll discover your new favorite beer! The festival expects an estimated count of 3,000 attendees this year, making it a guaranteed party. This event is free so grab all your friends and relish in the beauty of Sacramento’s mild October weather while enjoying the creative talent our city has to offer. Visit the event website for more information on all the fun activities that will be taking place, Exploremidtown.org/MidtownArtsFestival.
You might hear a few dirty words spelled out at this year’s Grown-Up Spelling Bee on Oct. 12 at Bows and Arrows (1815 19th Street) presented by one of Sacramento’s premiere roller derby teams, the Sacred City Derby Girls. Listen in as participants sound out the words or if you feel spellingsavvy enough, try it out yourself! As long as you keep up with the correct spellings, you’ll receive $1 off tap beers. The rules of the bee will follow the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s format with each round becoming more difficult. Depending on what you can afford, pay a fee of $7 to $15 to enter. Sign-up for the competition starts at 7 p.m. and the first round will begin at 8 p.m. Proceeds from the event go toward Sacramento’s Gender Health Center, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide services that “embrace the psychological well-being and self-fulfillment of individuals coming out and/or beginning or in the transition process in a safe, supportive and welcoming environment,” according to their website (Thegenderhealthcenter.org). For more information, visit Bows and Arrows online at Bowscollective.com.
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Truckin’ on the River • Oct. 13 Fifteen local food trucks will be parked at William B. Pond Park (5700 Arden Way) in Carmichael from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. for Truckin’ on the River on Oct. 13, so bring your picnic gear and an empty belly. A beer garden will be open for patrons of drinking age and children’s activities will also be available. When you’re too stuffed to move, simply veg out on the grass and listen to music by The Bell Boys, Kepi Ghoulie, Musical Charis and more. Your dogs are welcome to join in on the fun too as long as they’re kept on leash. This family friendly event’s proceeds go directly to supporting and revitalizing the American River Parkway. The American River Parkway Foundation’s mission is to restore the parkway by organizing volunteer groups to plant native trees and other vegetation, prevent fires and improve public safety. Tickets for the event are $5 through online pre-sale and $8 at the door with children under 5 being free. For more information about the foundation visit Arpf.org and to purchase your tickets early visit Truckin.brownpapertickets.com.
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This Second Saturday get your hands on all the swag Heart Boutique (1903 Capitol Avenue) will have to offer at their second anniversary party. Sales and specials will be going on all day from noon until 9 p.m. inside the petite boutique while performers DJ Esef, DJ Mosean and Bru Lei entertain guests. At 6 p.m., a sidewalk fashion show will take place featuring the latest fall styles offered at Heart. Free ice cream, desserts and beverages will be provided by local food truck Popcycle, and you can also enter a raffle for prizes. Heart Boutique carries popular women’s clothing lines BB Dakota, House of Harlow, Lush and much more for moderate prices. The boutique’s decor mirrors the on-trend clothes and accessories with a pearlwhite deer head and a black and white striped dressing room that makes for a fun shopping experience. Owner Vanessa Lopez says that this party “is a great way to mark our anniversary and thank our customers for all of their support.” She and the rest of the Heart family will be there celebrating so come wish them a happy birthday! Get a feel for Heart’s style on their website, Shopheartboutique.com Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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The Pied Pipers Be Brave Bold Robot, Once a Member, Always a Member Words Blake Gillespie • photo wesley davis
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ot many bands sport a badge of longevity inching toward eight years, but plenty of musicians can include their names in the pages of Be Brave Bold Robot’s local history. With roughly 23 former players fondly dubbed “Forever Members,” BBBR is a staple in the folk scene for good reason. If mad scientist, Dean Haakenson, hears you can play an instrument and likes you as a person, you can write your way into his project…forever. My night with Be Brave Bold Robot did not begin with an unsettling ride to West Sacramento in Haakenson’s Technicolor Volkswagen Bug, but a few points of interest are worth a mention prior to him offering a lift in his shrunken, two-seater Partridge Family bus of a VW. As follows: I snuck into an empty warehouse along with the band and a photographer for a photo shoot. Cut my hand lifting a giant disco ball. There was a potato sack race. Haakenson sweated through two shirts. No one discovered us. No one was handcuffed or fined for trespassing. No vandalism occurred. My palm only bled for a minute. But in Haakenson’s gutted and rusted VW, I sat shotgun to a man who rolled down the driver side window with a pair of pliers and casually talked of how his car, a present from his mom, stalled regularly as we took the Highway 50 on-ramp headed toward West Sacramento. I thought of the band’s moniker as he shimmied the VW into traffic and it strained its way to the speed limit. Be brave.
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We arrived safely to Haakenson’s home, and I was ready for a beer, for there is no finer way to gain a stranger’s trust or settle one’s nerves after relinquishing your own fate into his hands. Haakenson and his drummer Michael Ruiz claimed two of the four mysterious wheelchairs on the back patio—why does one man have so many? The rest of us (bassist Matty Gerken, viola player Catie Turner and saxophonist Jacob Gleason) sat in metal chairs or benches with microbrews in hand. Like all interviews, the awkward phase deteriorated and stories were flung freely, which led to how one becomes one of those Forever Members listed on Facebook. Over the years Haakenson developed a simple criterion: play four shows. It may take four consecutive shows, or it could take eight years, but until you’ve played four you are not an official Forever Member. “It’s a credit to Sacramento to have so many people I’ve met over a number of years join me,” he said and he was right. To my left sat Jacob Gleason, soft spoken most of the night, but he was first to share his admiration for Dean that led to joining Be Brave Bold Robot. It began with loving the first self-titled record and led to Gleason “[bugging] Dean enough that he finally started letting me play with him.” Going around the table, Catie Turner joined after seeing BBBR live and striking up a post-set conversation with Haakenson, who upon learning she played viola gave her a recording and let her write herself into the music. She’s been a member since. “He was like, ‘You should play on my record,’ and I said, ‘You’ve never even heard me play,’” she recalled.
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“It’s a Dean thing,” she said. “He’s so hands off. He didn’t know me, didn’t know my playing. It was unlike any experience I’ve ever had with an organized band.” Matty Gerken offered an anecdote on the BBBR’s rotating cast: “One time we played a show at Sac State and in order to play that show we needed to have one Sac State student in the band. So we brought in Chuck; good student, he’s from Iowa, like me. He had enough parts in the songs to get us qualified to play. He was a member for one show.” Gerken saw Be Brave Bold Robot play based on the name. He caught a Fox and Goose show, went to an after party with the band, which resulted in him mastering the first record. “I sort of learned all the songs from listening to them over and over while mixing them,” Gerken said. “When Tommy [Minnick] the former bass player decided he didn’t want to play anymore, I said, ‘Well, I know all the songs incidentally.’” Haakenson’s lackadaisical approach stems from understanding his friends and band mates have their own lives and careers. Without the pressures of commitment, being in a band can always be as fun as it sounds. No one’s government job is at risk, no one’s missing PTA meetings and no one’s on heroin to deal with the pressure of stardom. Members come and go and come back again when they have time or miss the fun of being in BBBR. “It changed my life here,” Turner said, who hadn’t played in a band since leaving San Francisco. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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Haakenson exudes gratefulness beyond his once a member, always a member attitude. The tape recorder clicked; side A was over. With everyone in good spirits, we agreed to call it and begin band practice. While guitars were tuned and more beers were emptied into mason jars, Haakenson handed me a copy of 2010’s Take a Deep Breath. He directed me to the living room where the original artwork of Kyle Larsen hung; he had two of Larsen’s pieces. Local writer Josh Fernandez probably doesn’t know it, but he is a cherub muse for BBBR, coining intoxicating limericks that echo through Haakenson’s mind. The new album’s title was partially lifted from Fernandez’s 2008 review, which was recited to me nearly verbatim during our hang out. Fernandez referred to Haakenson as “under a thin sheet of madness,” it led to the title of the band’s upcoming album Under a Thin Veil of Madness. Under a Thin Veil of Madness began with sessions at Expression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville. “They offer free recordings to bands in exchange for being guinea pigs for their audio recording classes,” Haakenson said. “We went in there for an eight-hour session and got four songs done that are new to this album, and had plenty of time left to record four other songs.” Going in there was concern of the album being in the hands of pupils, but by the end of their session the band was so close with the students that a kid named Willie Ramsey is doing the Under a Thin Veil of Madness artwork, expanding Dean’s collection of art and adding an honorary band member once again. “I was SubmergeMag.com
concerned that we were getting learned on,” Gerken said. “They had an experienced instructor there and it was clear that guy was all business.” In the eight years of having one of the most recognizable band names in Sacramento, the true source of the moniker eludes Haakenson. He loves that about his band. Before it was his band it was his ‘zine. Prior to the ‘zine it was a graffiti tag by a girl in Arcata, Calif., who claims she saw it done by a San Francisco artist. Some theorize it was lifted from the Isaac Asimov’s science fiction series I, Robot. “I’ll put out a call right now,” Haakenson said. “I’ll pay $100 for the documented source.” May it always be obscured and tucked in mystery to preserve the legend of Be Brave Bold Robot. It’s apropos to a band that tucks mementos to childhood in its song lyrics and sneaks away from families and responsibilities into a West Sacramento living room to drink, chat and practice like a discovered teenage NeverNever Land. Catch Be Brave Bold Robot “I have a child-like way when they play Beatnik about me, which I think Studios in Sacramento on Oct. 26 and celebrate the release of is maybe what makes me Under a Thin Veil of Madness. endearing to the people I meet Also playing will be Appetite ,Cold Eskimo and Buzzmutt. on a regular basis,” Haakenson The music for this Final Friday said. “I think I’m OK with show gets underway at 9 p.m. and there is a $5 to $10 confrontation, but I’d much suggested donation. rather make people happy.”
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Issue 121 • October 8 – October 22, 2012
College is synonymous with freedom. From the people you choose to be your friends, the activities you become involved with or your political stance on pending issues, in college there is no one to tell you what to do. And as for fashion, well, the same rule applies. While yoga pants and sweats are the unanimous favorites among most college kids, some students choose to step out of the comfort zone and experiment with style. You have the once in a lifetime chance to try exciting new trends without running the risk of breaking any dress code. With the first weeks of school in full swing, I spotted some of the most stylish students at UC Davis.
Nicolette Lacson Burgundy and dark wine colors are big for fall and are definitely eye-catching colors. Nicolette Lacson’s dark magenta sundress stood out amongst the sea of T-shirts and shorts. This dress could work for so many different body types. With a cinched waist and flounce-y skirt, it will surely flatter the best parts of you. The button and pocket details add a preppy flair, as do her Sperry Topsiders and oversized cat eye sunglasses. For all those Davisites, a note of caution: It is near impossible to bike in a short dress; stick to walking! Christine Young Yet another popular trend that is continuing into the fall season is sheer fabric. From shirts to dresses, grandmother’s slips are being thrown out to reveal what lies underneath. One of the more risqué looks is showcasing your brassiere beneath a sheer blouse. However, if you are not quite ready to reveal all of Victoria’s secrets, then try something a bit more appropriate. Christine Young does a sheer black, maxi skirt and underneath wears a short opaque skirt. This is revealing without being provocative. You still get to show off your legs without feeling completely exposed. With a buttoned up, collared blouse and a pendant necklace, Christine certainly knows how to keep it classy. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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Women are so complicated. Not only do men not know what they are thinking or why they think as they do, but we can’t even figure out what to call them. Men keep it simple: your options are sir or mister and they work interchangeably. It doesn’t matter if a man is married, widowed, old or young; sir or mister will do the job. But women just couldn’t let themselves be defined by two measly catch-alls. There are no less than five ways to address the matriarchs of our society and deciding which one to choose can be a minefield full of hurt feelings. Every woman starts out as a Miss. A miss is an unmarried woman, and for many, the default option when you don’t know the woman in question. I believe the origin of the term comes from the fact that men regularly try to catch them and miss for one reason or another, though don’t hold me to that. Absent any information on the woman in question, miss is may be the route to go, but what’s the fun in that? Now if there is a miss in your life that you hope to make a Mrs. someday, referring to them as miss is not going to help you stand out. Everyone calls them that already, and you need to make a good impression. Perhaps I’ve read too much Game of Thrones, but I’ve dusted off an old chestnut and replaced my misses with lady or if you really want to be formal, m’lady (if you are low born) and my lady (if you are high born). In these go-go modern times, a bit of old-fashionedness goes a long way. No girl wants to date some dude, but a gentleman caller who calls her my lady… now that’s something special. Of course, there are plenty of married women out there, and how dare you not recognize their holy union by calling them miss! Putting up with our manly bullshit until death or a quickie divorce entitles them to some extra letters, so you better not miss (literally). Once married, that default miss becomes a misses (or Mrs.). I believe the entomology of this term reflects an end to all the misses from suitors in the past.
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And when that one suitor who won out in the battle to make a Mrs. manages to die (possibly due to exhaustion from his efforts), m’lady becomes a Ms., pronounced, mizz. This is now often used in place of Miss if the marital status of the woman in question is “unknown or irrelevant,” according to MiriamWebster. I believe this zz sound reflects that man in her life now sleeps with the fishes. Calling someone a Ms. without having some personal information about the woman in question can be problematic. If her husband is still alive, you may be saying that you wish he were dead because he is an awful man or because you would like to swoop in on his wife. Though less likely, you may also be saying that this woman looks old, and surely, her man must be dead by now. And why say it that way when there is already a perfect way to refer to an old woman? We call them ma’am, and you best be careful how you use this one. For some, ma’am is akin to sir and is meant as a sign of respect. These people are also known as men. Referring to a woman as ma’am, in my experience, usually leads to a dirty look, followed shortly thereafter by, “How old do you think I am?” It is a widely accepted belief that no woman wants to be old, and ma’am is the term that makes them feel that way. Again, I am not sure of the precise origins of the word, but given the reaction of women to be called ma’am, my guess is that it is a shortened form of the word mammaries, which as we all know tend to sag with age. Outside of the phrase, “Wham, bam, thank you ma’am,” you are probably going to want to avoid this one. Regardless of what they want to be called, I think we can all agree that women are beautiful and deserving of one of the many names we have available to call them. We men just need to know what you like. I think I can speak on behalf of all men when I say we will call you whatever you want, just let us call you. Ok, lady?
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For the Birds
Feeding Crane Farms shows that humans could learn something from cranes Words Jenn Walker • Photos Debbie Cunningham • Facebook.com/DLCunninghamPhotography
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f people started eating a little more like cranes, nature and the economy might be a little better off for it. This is what prompted the naming of Feeding Crane Farms, a small farming operation with a big vision that sits along a bird grove on the East Levee Corridor in Natomas. “Cranes are a really wonderful example of what we’re doing with Feeding Crane Farms,” says general manager Shannin Stein. “Cranes eat locally, they eat seasonally. “They will actually create habitats for small bugs where they live, they’ll tend to those areas and actually cultivate the bugs,” she adds. Stein oversees Local Food Done Right, an umbrella company that owns both Feeding Crane Farms and Lulu’s Kitchen. The vision behind the two operations is to promote local, sustainable food production, from “farm to fork.” She, alongside company owner and visionary Brian Shaad, farm manager Antonio Garza, and operations manager Dylan Keith, are part of a team of less than 10 keeping Lulu’s Kitchen and Feeding Crane Farms alive. Needless to say everyone wears a lot of hats, Stein says. This is a very new operation. After prepping and plowing three-and-a-half acres, and adding all natural amendments like bloodmeal and oyster shell to the soil, the organic farm “broke ground” last September. They began selling crops to local restaurants and grocery stores early this year. Beyond providing fresh produce for grocery stores, local restaurants and farmers’ markets in Oak Park, Natomas and Cesar Chavez Park, the small team has come up with some really innovative ideas along the way, like Farm to
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Fork dinners, where locals who already support farmers’ markets and buy organic can experience the talent of chefs in the community who are committed to using local, organic ingredients. The company recently purchased Steel Magnolia, a commercial kitchen in Sacramento, which they are renaming Lulu’s Kitchen after Shaad’s grandmother, Mary Lou Cayocca. Lulu’s will be accessible to local producers who have recipes but don’t have access to a commercial kitchen or some of the logistics needed to get their products on grocery shelves, Stein says. The team has its own products it is developing to sell, too. By the start of 2013, you can start looking out for things like arugula pasta, pepper pasta, handmade butternut squash ravioli, squash bread, arugula pesto, and roasted pepper chutney on store shelves. According to Stein, the recipes are being developed as you read. They also plan to expand into two more properties along the East Levee Corridor, putting an additional 12 acres into production by January and quadrupling their production capacity. And last but not least, if you’ve caught wind of the first annual Harvest Sunset Celebration, yes, they are planning that as well. But with all the events already happening this fall, they’ve decided to postpone it until the spring. With so much going on, it’s hard to believe Stein has a moment to breathe, let alone talk through an interview. Yet Submerge somehow managed to catch up with her while she was on a drive through the Midwest. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
“Farming itself is not necessarily a lucrative business. It’s a cash-heavy investment business, there’s a lot of investments needed to really get a farm going and keep a farm operating. Small producers, small farmers really need to have the opportunity and the outlet for additional revenue streams.” – Shannin Stein, Feeding Crane Farms You guys said you are along the East Levee in Natomas? Yeah, we’re in North Natomas, and basically it’s called the East Levee Corridor. So it’s a levee bypass system that comes off the Sacramento River out in Yolo and Sutter counties. Gotcha. There’s a fair bit of ag activity in that region, right? Yes and no. A little bit further to the west of Sacramento, closer to I-5, there’s a lot of commercial rice production, there’s a lot of big ag. But along the East Levee Corridor, the majority of the land is fallow; it’s not in any form of production. And so, you guys are trying to cultivate some of that land out there… Our goal is to basically try and reinvigorate that entire East Levee Corridor, and to create a system and create farms that are duplicateable. We want to be able to take what we’ve learned in starting our first small three-and-a-half-acre property and we want to be able to basically duplicate it on other properties along that corridor. Then we will create an actual, thriving agribusiness along that corridor to make that area two things: one, less susceptible to development, and two, to basically make Sacramento far more sustainable in regards to food production. So what kind of stuff do you guys grow? We have upward of about 30 different varieties of items in the ground at any given time. For this winter, we’ll have a full-crop harvest, we’re not going to take a break this winter. So we have salad mix, head lettuces, arugula. We did tomatoes this summer, eggplant, okra, lots of root vegetables, we grew beautiful beets and radishes, turnips. As Antonio, our farm manager, likes to refer to it, our main property right now is really kind of a salad bowl. There are carrots, onions. Amazingly for our harvest season, part of it has really been experimentation and learning what does well in the soil that we’re working with and getting a feel for crop rotation and our product demands by community. SubmergeMag.com
What’s the plan with Steel Magnolia [now Lulu’s Kitchen], and why did you guys decide to buy it? Well, as I mentioned, our motto is basically the same thing as our parent company, “local food done right.” And we really believe that “local food done right” doesn’t just mean growing the food locally, it means producing food locally… We want Lulu’s Kitchen to be an incubator kitchen for local producers to come work on their recipes [and] work on their processes. We have fully trained chefs on our team who can help mentor them… At the same time we want to help those producers navigate the often confusing and sticky system of working with the County Health Department and working with the city and learning how to do labeling so it’s FDA approved and how to get your ingredients improved, you know, all of that process. We want help small producers so it’s easier for them to go from concept to the shelf. I thought I read something about you guys developing your own products to sell in stores, is that right? We will be, yeah. Absolutely. In fact, you can go to the GOOD market and you can try some of our value-added items. You’ll hear us talk a lot about [value-added items] with small farms in particular. Farming itself is not necessarily a lucrative business. It’s a cash-heavy investment business, there’s a lot of investments needed to really get a farm going and keep a farm operating. Small producers, small farmers really need to have the opportunity and the outlet for additional revenue streams, and so creating value-added products: jams, jellies, breads, sauces, pastas, things along those lines, where the primary ingredients are from your farm, is a great way to do that. So we have a ton of summer squash still out in the field, so one of the chefs on our team is making squash bread.
Now Farm to Fork Dinners, whose idea was that? Well, actually, that was a joint discussion. It started out where once every two months or so, the farmers and myself, just kind of our core team, we were going to one of the restaurants for dinner and we provided food, because the farmers work their butts off, and they deserve the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor occasionally. But in doing that, we also built these really beautiful relationships with the chefs we work with. They have given us fantastic feedback. It started out, actually, with Mama Kim, of Mama Kim Eats, who said almost immediately, “I want to do a brunch.” So we started out with a brunch at Mama Kim Eats, and she said, “I want to do a brunch and I want to focus specific dishes around your produce and your products.” And I was like, “That’s fantastic.” And so Farm to Fork was born. And now we work to do at least one Farm to Fork event each month with our partner restaurants to help bring in business for them on an off-shift. Like at Michelangelo’s, it was on a Sunday night, and we basically helped them triple their sales on a Sunday night. Do you have an estimate of about how much you produce per season? You know, we’re putting those numbers together, to be honest [laughs]. But what I can say is we have been able to sustain upward of about 20 to 25 restaurants, the Natural Foods Co-Op, Corti Brothers and three farmers’ markets for this entire season, so since January basically, off of three-and-a-half-acres. And that’s pretty amazing, to begin with.
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Tearing Up Turf Battle-tested, Red Fang embark upon another long round of touring Words James Barone • Photo james rexroad
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ome bands proclaim to be road warriors but Portland, Ore.’s sludge metal heroes Red Fang doesn’t have to proclaim anything. The band’s actions speak for themselves. When Submerge spoke with the band’s guitarist/ vocalist Bryan Giles he was savoring a rare moment of hanging out in Portland. By the end of the month, Red Fang will be out on the road once more. Their U.S. tour with Black Tusk kicks off in Sacramento on Oct. 26 and finishes up just before Thanksgiving. Again, actions speak louder than words, and so does Red Fang’s music. The band has been so busy touring that it’s hard to believe it’s been just about a year and a half since Red Fang’s latest album, 2011’s Murder the Mountains, was released. On Sept. 26, the band released a new song online, “Crows in Swine,” “primarily just to let people know what we’ve been up to as far as some of our new stuff,” Giles says of the track. “We just put it out there to remind people that we’re still a band.” Giles reports that he hopes “Crows in Swine” will end up on a split 7-inch and that the savagely shredding track is indicative of what the band has been working on. He has been using this rare down time in Red Fang’s schedule to work on new material. “I’d say two or three tracks are aggressive like that,” he says. “They’re a work out. It’s good. It’s keeping me on my toes—a lot of notes.” Home cooking is important to Giles’ songwriting process. He admits that he and Red Fang have yet to figure out how
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to write while they’re on the road, though he knows at some point it’ll probably be a necessity. “We don’t travel in buses. If I wanted to have the guitar in the van, I’d be knocking somebody in the head with the headstock, and that wouldn’t go well,” he says. “Plus, the way I do songwriting is that I do a lot of endless repetition, so people would probably try to strangle me with my guitar strings after having to hear the same riff over and over for an hour and a half.” As it turns out, the band’s familial commitments have aided Red Fang in having time home to write. Aaron Beam, the band’s co-vocalist and bassist, is married and has a child with Sara Lund, a member of The Corin Tucker Band. When Lund is on the road, Beam is at home with the kid, which means Red Fang gets to work on music. “It’s actually worked out great, because she can take time on the road with her band, and we can be at home woodshedding,” Giles says. After Red Fang’s U.S. tour finishes up in Boise, Idaho, on Nov. 21, the band will take off just six days before embarking to Europe on a tour built around an invitation to play All Tomorrow’s Parties. It will be the band’s second headlining tour of Europe. The first, a mammoth excursion with Black Tusk, has been documented in a series of short films cosponsored by Decibel Magazine and Converse. Giles discusses Red Fang’s previous jaunt to Europe and previews its upcoming journey in the following interview.
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“We’d say, ‘We need a lot of beer,’ and they’d be, ‘Alrighty, what’s on sale?’ But truthfully, I think they take their beer pretty seriously over there, so even their bad beer is pretty good. My only complaint is that sometimes the inexpensive beer has a stronger flavor, and they’re not really into cold beer, they’re into cool beer. So when it’s not your favorite, you can really taste it when it’s floating around at 60 degrees.” – Bryan Giles, Red Fang, on cheap beer in Europe
I was watching some of the Converse documentaries of Red Fang’s European tour… There were a few clips of you guys saying how few tickets you had pre-sold for the gigs, but then it would cut to the live concert footage and the venues were packed. Were you surprised at the turnouts? I think Aaron said it in the documentary, and it’s true, people just don’t buy presale tickets for us so much. It’s a walk-up crowd. Although, that was only our third tour in Europe, so it’s not like we had a whole lot of experience…and having it be our first headlining tour, we had no idea what to expect. We were very pleasantly surprised. I think a lot of it was due to touring with Mastodon in the States in late 2011 and had already planned on that tour that our next European tour would be as a headliner, but I think three and a half weeks before Mastodon was going to Europe, they still didn’t have an opener. They asked us, and it didn’t really seem possible, but it didn’t seem like there was any way we couldn’t do it. A big reason [our headlining tour] was so successful was that we got to play in front of so many people. Mastodon is doing really well right now. They’re filling huge rooms, and we got to do main support from them all through out Europe. That was an awesome opportunity, and we went back like a month and a half later. It was really good timing. When you were playing the Mastodon tour, did you see a lot of people in the audience who may not have been familiar with you being won over? Sometimes it’s really hard to read a crowd. Sometimes we’ll play a crowd, and they’ll seem really sedate, but then you’ll look at how many T-shirts you sold, and you did better than when people were going batshit crazy. I don’t know. People appreciate music in different ways. There were definitely people who were looking at us the first three or four songs going, “Do I like this or don’t I?” It’s a challenge, that’s for sure. They’re not there to see you, they’re there to see Mastodon. It’s your job to convince them that they’re there to see Red Fang and Mastodon.
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One other clip from the documentaries I liked was in the last part of the documentary when you were at a stop in Moscow, and you were looking at the Marshall stack you hadn’t used before. There were so many buttons. I was like, “What the fuck?” Usually I can figure those things out. I just hit the button that makes it sound the most distorted and then turn all the knobs to the right, and that’s usually fine. And in that case, it was fine as well. Some Marshalls they’ve got that classic Marshall sound, but it just doesn’t work for us. It sounds more like AC/DC. It’s sort of a clean distortion. I like the real nutty distortion. You’re going back to Europe in a couple months. Are you heading to places you didn’t hit the first time? Yeah, we got invited to do All Tomorrow’s Parties, which we were blown away and flattered to be able to do that. It’s curated by Shellack, who I’m a big fan of, so we built a tour around it. Just getting over there is pretty expensive. You make a tour out of it so you can rationalize going all the way over there. We’re doing that, and I think we get two days off, so we’ll get to enjoy that whole event. It’s a three-day festival. Another amazing thing we get to do is a BBC Session, so I’m thrilled and terrified at the prospect of that as well. Why do you say terrified? Well, it’s a studio without a net. I guess you get a couple of runs at the song, but it’s live, man. If you flub, it’s out there, and people know it because it’s studio quality. It sounds like a nice trip. It must be nice to have a couple of days off this time, too. Last time around it was 33 shows in 35 days. It didn’t seem like you had too much time to take in the sights. The last tour we did before that, I think we had one day off, and that was a longer tour. We’re finally realizing we start going crazy if we don’t get a day off here or there, so the two
days off on the last tour were very intentional. Where would be the most relaxing place to be, and what the shortest drives to and from would be, so we could maximize those days off. I think our second day off was in Budapest, and we got to go to the hot springs, the baths there, and it was a full-bore vacation day. It was really nice. I hope that trend continues. You might as well enjoy yourselves. You’re in some beautiful city and you show up for sound check—I like to call the club “the black hole,” because once you walk in, it’s almost impossible to get out and see the sights or anything, because you end up having to do stuff. From your music videos, I saw that PBR was featured pretty heavily. While you were in Europe, were you able to find a cheap beer equivalent? The swill you mean? I was trying to be diplomatic. No, but the clubs found it for us. We’d say, “We need a lot of beer,” and they’d be, “Alrighty, what’s on sale?” But truthfully, I think they take their beer pretty seriously over there, so even their bad beer is pretty good. My only complaint is that sometimes the inexpensive beer has a stronger flavor, and they’re not really into cold beer, they’re into cool beer. So when it’s not your favorite, you can really taste it when it’s floating around at 60 degrees, in a can to begin with. You’re like, “Oh yeah…beer…”
You won’t want to miss Red Fang and Black Tusk when they play Harlow’s in Sacramento on Oct. 26. It’s the band’s first stop on their latest U.S. tour, so help them kick it off in style. Lord Dying will also perform. Check with Harlows. com to purchase tickets. Listen to “Crows in Swine” at Soundcloud. com/RelapseRecords.
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Ace of Spades Morbid Angel, Dark Funeral, Grave, Soma Ras, 7:30 p.m. Auburn Event Center Billy Overwatch + more Joe Shaver, 7 p.m. SAMMIES Awards Ace of Spades 6:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Dads LP’s, Island of Black & White, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose Collin Jones, The Boardwalk The The Boardwalk Lazie Locz, James Isreal, 8 p.m. Cosmonauts, Victory Cuddy Kev, War Musik, or Death, Lost Freedom, Rocc Steady, CBK, Sir Harlow’s Saint Vitus, Vera, Maid of the Mist, Johnson, Yung Jae, Lucero, Weedeater, Sourvein, 8 Steady Riots, New Fang, Chip G, Afect One, 7 p.m. p.m. 7 p.m. Bows & Arrows Level Up Lounge Karaoke, Capitol Garage Get Down Flowerss, Desario, 8 p.m. 9 p.m. to the Champion Sound Cache Creek Casino w/ DJ Esef and special Luigi’s Fungarden Rocca Yolanda Del Rio, 8 p.m. guests, 10 p.m. Vanardo (CD Release), The Bell Boys, Blee, The Cave Accidentally Center for the Arts Jamal Nicatyne, 8 p.m. Murdered, Extirpate, Walker, Loose Change, 8 Incisus, Jon Genocyde, p.m. Marilyn’s Rock On Live After The Flesh, 8 p.m. Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. Elkhorn Saloon Red’s Club Retro Sleeping Giant, Blues, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Koncrete Before Me, 7 p.m. Jungle, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose Spider Colonial Theatre Creature Garage Dylan, Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Feature, 9 p.m. Champagne, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Cash’d District 30 DJ Billy Lane, Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 Out, 8 p.m.; Frankie 9 p.m. p.m. Ballard, Miss Willie Brown, 10 p.m. Elkhorn Saloon The Harlow’s The Nick Twilight Drifters, 6 p.m. Gravenites & David Press Club Yogurt Brain, LaFlamme Band, 7 p.m.; Peggy Benks, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Lucky Vibe Squad, Opiuo, 10 Laskowski, Flies in the Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; p.m. Kitchen, Patrick Walsh, 9 Lonesome Locomotive, 9 p.m. Haven Underground p.m. Liberation Movement, Harlow’s Crush, Wales, Townhouse Musical Heavyweight Dub Headlines, 6:30 p.m.; Charis (CD Release Party) Champion, Sasha Rose, Iconoclast Robot, James Cavern, Autumn Sygil, 9:30 p.m. Greyspace, 10 p.m. Sky, Hey Zeus, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Hot Haven Underground The UC Davis: Jackson Hall Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom, Sam Chase, Brett Shady, Stanley Clarke Trio, Lenny 9 p.m. Last Shot Got ‘Em, 8:30 White, Ruslan Sirotam, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Molly Paul, p.m. The Rail Flowers, 8 p.m. Hideaway Anniversary Party w/ Loveless, Marilyn’s Steel Toed Twilight Drifters, Colonel Slippers, Dirty Clergy, 9 Jimmy and the Blackfish, p.m. 8 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe Friday Level Up Lounge Guest Franklin’s Mint, Art DJs, 9 p.m. Lessing, Andrew Diamond Ace of Spades SAMMIES Henderson, 8 p.m. Awards w/ Arden Luna’s Cafe Solwave, Park Roots, Autumn Mike Diaz, Cheryl Martin, Old Ironsides My Dirty Sky, The Bell Boys, DJ Chris Sayers, 8:30 p.m. Addiction, Fair Struggle, Oasis, DJ Roger, DJ March into Paris, 9 p.m. Whores, Elements Marilyn’s North Bound Brass Band, Grant High Train, 8:30 p.m. \On The Y Newtdick, School Drumline, InkDup, Truculence, Chase the Naked Lounge Downtown James Cavern, Live Shakes, Minenwerfer, Kevin Seconds (CD Manikins, Musical Charis, Killgasm, 9 p.m. Release), Kept Ghoulie, 8 Overwatch, Project4Trees, p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Random Abiladeze and DJs Shift and Eddie Edul, more, 6:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Fascination, 9 p.m. 9:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Timothy Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Rhyme, 60 East, Soosh-E, The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Spiffy, Lil Bit, Reaz, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Hip Ampone, 9 p.m. Service, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Power Balance Pavilion Issue 121 • October 8 – October 22, 2012 22
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Ace of Spades Abandon All Ships, For All Those Sleeping, Skip The Foreplay, Palisades, Upon This Dawning, 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Gumbo Stew, 3 p.m.
Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Tess Marie & the Poor Man Band, 8 p.m. Townhouse Dreamsalon, G. Green, God Sex, 9 p.m.
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The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, Greg Willett, Mike Bender, Karl Evngelista, 7:30 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe Hip Hop Night w/ DJ Kyle, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides The Nuance, 7:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Sol Collective Microphone Mondays, 8 p.m. Townhouse Open Mic, 9 p.m.
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10.19 Bambu + more The Rent Money Tour Sol Collective 6 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Traditional Irish Jam Session, 7 p.m. Harlow’s STRFKR, Onuinu, 7 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke w/ KJ Ryan, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Honyock, 9 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe Midtown Out Loud, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub 98 Rock’s Local Licks Night w/ The Old Screen Door, Street Urchinz, The Three Way, 8 p.m. Torch Club Sandra Delores, Charlie Peacock, 5:30 p.m.; Peter Petty Review, 9 p.m.
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The Blue Lamp The Session, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Kung Fu Vampire, Mars, Liquid Assassin, Mr. Grey, Sik Mob, Freelance Assassins, Lower Level, Americaz Mozt Haunted, GFN & R3B, 7 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.
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Fox & Goose Goodnight Texas, Erin & the Project, 8 p.m. Haven Underground Marv Ellis, Augustus ThElefant, Spends Quality, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Moans, Boats!, Isotopes, Well Red, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Billy Lane, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Bluegrass Acoustic Jam, 7:30 p.m.; Koncrete Jungle, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Pete Stringfellow, Whiskey Row, 9:30 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Down North, 9 p.m. Townhouse Blitz w/ DJ Roderick, 9 p.m.
10.19 FRIDAY
Armadillo Tea Leaf Green, 4 p.m. Bows & Arrows Sam Elliot, Little Owl, James Cavern, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ Esef and special guests, 10 p.m.
Colonial Theatre Con B, GEEZL, Shawty Mac, Luboe Tha Doeboi, Majia Dot, RS Greedy, Duffle Bag, Lunacie, Chief Mainy, Ray Ryda, Kill Bill and more, 6:30 p.m. Cooper’s Ale Works Spindrift, 9 p.m. Crest Theatre Mary Youngblood, 6 p.m. District 30 DJ Billy Lane, 9 p.m. Elkhorn Saloon The Bathtub Gins, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Grizzly Buddha, Jack Rabbit Special, Oak Creek Band, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Tea Leaf Green, Stone Foxes, 10 p.m. Level Up Lounge Hot Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Shell Corporation, Bastards of Young, Build Us Airplanes, Sun Valley Gun Club, Number Station, 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe The Hey Nows, Awkward Lemon, Boscoe’s Brood, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Abbey Road (Beatles tribute), 8:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Foxtails, Dude City, Blossom Rock, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Phono Select Union Hearts, Rad, Sneeze Attack, 7 p.m.
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Powerhouse Pub Fast Times, 9:30 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. The Refuge This Fire Burns, Ballistic Burnout, The Somebodys, The Magic Bullets, The Resistance, 7 p.m. Shine Julianna Zachariou, J.Krage, Sandra Dolores, Karlee Hormell, 8 p.m. Sol Collective The Rent Money Tour feat. Bambu, Rey Resurreccion, Kixxie Siete, El Conductor, Mr. Vibe, Mos Jef, Ruby Ibarra, Digital Martyrs, Keno and more, 6 p.m. St Joseph’s Cultural Center Little Wings, Aaron Ross, Matt Bauer, Garrett Pierce, Moore Bros, 6 p.m. Swabbies on the River UrbanFire, Zion Roots, DJ Wokstar, 6 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Outlaws, 8:30 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5 p.m.; Midtown Creepers, 9 p.m. Townhouse DJ X-GVNR, 9 p.m.
10.20 Saturday
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9:30 p.m. Club Retro The Longest Mile, The Kids We Used to Be, What This Means, Youthquake A.D., Vitality, Kingpin, 7 p.m. District 30 DJ Elements, 9 p.m. Elkhorn Saloon Marshal Wilkerson, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Moot, Michelle Shepherd, Sweet Malloy, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Steelin Dan, 7 p.m. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Air Supply, 7:30 p.m. Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden The Kelps, MindFlowers, Man In The Planet, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Kilo & Pepper, The Signifiers, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Chuck’s Annual Halloween Party, 8 p.m. MARRS Building Midtown Arts Festival w/ The Royal Jelly, Sicfus, Ross Hammond and more, 12 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe Jazz Gitan, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Janes Addiction, Thenewno2, 8:30 p.m.
10.21 Sunday
Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Club Retro Rock Inc. Unplugged 2012 Student Showcase, 2:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Savoy Brown, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides The Nuance, 7:30 p.m. Pine Cove Showcase Gig w/ Denver, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Chris Cain, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; The Golden Cadillacs, 8 p.m.
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Words James Barone Liam Neeson has played some big name bad asses during the course of his lauded movie career. He was one of the Knights of the Round Table, Gawain, in Excalibur and Kegan in my favorite fantasy schlock fest Krull (come on, Krull was awesome!) back in the ‘80s. More recently he’s been stone cold criminal mastermind Ra’s Al Ghul in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and even starred as Zeus himself in the 2010’s Clash of the Titans and its 2012 sequel Wrath of the Titans. He’s even portrayed real life heroes like Rob Roy, Michael Collins and Oskar Schindler. It’s strange then that even with this impressive canon of roles he’s performed that Bryan Mills has become one of his most iconic. The character has become a cult hit among the Internet meme generation, and that’s a credit to Neeson, because though Mills is a retired U.S. spy who can easily throttle baddies, he’s not as flashy as your James Bonds or Jason Bournes. Taken was released back in 2008, and judging by the crowd at the theater on opening night, it would seem that this sequel was highly anticipated. Taken 2 delivers plenty of high-octane Neeson-ocity, which almost masks the fact that it’s kind of a by-the-numbers action flick. The cool thing about Mills is that though he’s a kick-ass spy, he’s also a dad. In the first film, he unleashed holy hell on a horde of faceless villains in order to retrieve his daughter Kim (played in both films by Lost alum Maggie Grace). So, while Bourne whoops butt in hopes of regaining his identity, or Bond thwarts evildoers so he can score with a bevy of exotic women, Mills is much more relatable. Hey, he’s just a family man, you
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know? Why do you have to go and mess with the dude’s family? Taken 2 sees Mills pitted against another family man, Murad Krasniqi (Rade Serbedzija). Krasniqi’s son was the man who kidnapped Kim in the first film and met a horrid end at the hands of Mills. Krasniqi assembles a group of ornery henchmen to exact revenge upon Mills and tracks the former spy to Istanbul, Turkey, where he's relaxing with his ex-wife/ baby momma, Lenore (Famke Janssen), and daughter. This time around, though, it’s Mills and Lenore who are “taken” leaving Kim to bust her parents out of a dungeon buried deep in the winding streets of Istanbul. There are cutesy moments of Mills’ family life. He uses his spy training to track Kim down to her new boyfriend’s house and teaches her how to pass her road test. He gives Lenore a shoulder to cry on when he discovers that her new husband is just a big ol’ jerk, and on a boat in Istanbul, Mills asks Kim if this boy of hers is someone she thinks is special. It’s all very sweet and antiseptic. Luckily, Mills is better at incapacitating well-armed villains than he is at Talking About Feelings. Be it via hand-to-hand combat or packing heat, he's a one-man wrecking crew who’ll stop at nothing to defend his family and ensure that they will never again have to fear for their lives. There are some neat action sequences here, such as when Kim, still new to driving, escapes from corrupt Turkish police through labyrinthine streets with poppa bear in the passenger seat, unloading clip after clip into their pursuers. An epic boss fight occurs as Mills takes on Krasniqi’s head henchman, the man who was in charge of torturing his wife. Neeson, now 60 years old, more than holds his own in the fast-paced, bare-fisted battle. Don’t worry, I won’t ruin the outcome for you, but you can probably guess who wins. But the burning question left for the end of the film is whether or not Kim will pass her road test. Spoiler alert: She gets a perfect score!
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Death as a Fetish
Starfucker’s Deep Dark Dance Words Ryan J. Prado photo Tyler Kohlhoff
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or a wide swath of the country’s electronic music lovers, Portland’s Starfucker is a bit of an anomaly. Consider first the group’s somewhat reluctant allegiance to its own name. The edginess of the Starfucker moniker had in fact started as a sort of rough experiment by primary songwriter Josh Hodges to see how far, if at all, such an abrasive handle could go. Before they could find out, the band made a publicized switch to the name Pyramid, which was soon after morphed to Pyramiddd. Undeterred in the crossover was the project’s loyalty to deep house beats, swelling synths and clunky pop guitar lines, helmed by Hodges’ battery mates Keil Corcoran (percussion, drum machine), Patrick Morris (guitar) and Shawn Glassford (bass). For all those club-ready beats, however, appeared Hodges’ decidedly macabre fascinations with death, dreams and all things dark, providing a brooding insight to a gifted and perhaps troubled sort of modern songwriter. The band returned to its original name of Starfucker in 2010—though they augment it arbitrarily to STRFKR depending on the phases of Jupiter’s moons (kidding)—no worse for the wear, and have finally put all that goddamn name rigmarole behind them. Reptilians, released in 2011 on the Chicago indie label Polyvinyl, is Starfucker's most ambitious album to date. Reptilians continued Hodges’ sweeping new wave melodramas with auditory bits of pop-rock panache, typically morbid lyrical swipes and snippets of lectures by famed British philosopher Alan Watts. The album was the first for the project that included a more collaborative approach between all of the band members, though to pinpoint at which intervals would have been difficult given Hodges’ somewhat ironclad creative grip. A year-and-a-half removed from Reptilians, Starfucker is hitting the road again for a fall tour at the tail-end of engineering their second release for Polyvinyl—an as-yetuntitled, 15-track LP that Hodges explains is similarly dark, similarly upbeat and plain old similar to his band’s prior output. It’s a good thing, then, that said previous output is so unfairly catchy. To boot, Hodges tells Submerge that Starfucker’s new album—to be released in February 2013—is the band’s most collaborative effort to date.
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WWW.SACSTATEUNIQUE.COM Reptilians dealt with a lot of darker kind of imagery, but retained an upbeat, dance-y ambiance throughout. As a songwriter creating through a pop prism, how do you reconcile that dichotomy? I think they go together well. Every one of our albums has been like that, but this new one is probably even darker. I just like to write about what I think about, which is death and change. The way our society is, and the way we all think about living is silly considering how people often say, “Oh I would have changed things if I’d known I was gonna die, and not cared about so much bullshit.” We all know [we’re going to die]. In one way or another that’s what the lyrics are always about. I mean, it’s still fun to dance. When I started Starfucker, I was bored of going to shows. The way that it’s interesting is if you can dance—even if you’re into the music—you can still have a good time. Or if you don’t dance, and end up at a dance-y show with your friends, the music is still songs you can listen to that are saying something and not just techno music. The songs are definitely focused on making music that’s fun to play live. I think they go together well, to talk about potentially dark things and then have music be lighter or hopeful. I’ve always liked that and like when other artists do that. Did you grow up listening to electronic pop bands that had that more cerebral, thematic motif? I didn’t really. I didn’t like electronic music when I was growing up. I just got some keyboards and thought, “Oh this is actually really cool.” I think I always liked darker music. I think with Starfucker, a big part of it is listening to it at home and reading the lyrics, but then a lot of it is emphasis on the live show, and on living right now and getting a break from the boring stresses in life. It’s nice to go to a show and forget things for a minute, especially if dancing is your thing. Have you had conversations with fans of the band, where they were into that same contrast? Like maybe they weren’t exactly privy to the darker lyrics, but more reeled in by the dance-y music? Yeah, definitely. That’s one of my favorite things about having this project is talking with people who come out. I always hang out after shows and talk to people at the merch table or write to them on Facebook. I’ve met some really cool people and have had some really cool conversations with people about that. Also, just the little bits of Alan Watts on the album that’s started some really good conversations with people. I’ve had fans come up and say they’d never heard of him, and then they started getting into him. It’s cool to expose someone to something new like that. And it’s cool to have cool conversations with people about it [laughs].
I would imagine on tour, any time the conversation errs outside of “how’s the tour going?” must be refreshing. Yeah, totally. It’s super refreshing. What new fascinations or themes have you been focused on since Reptilians’ release that you may explore on your next album? It’s a lot of the same stuff, just a different take on it. It’s a bit darker, but still really playful. There’s a lot of dream references in it, too. I had dreams where I was dying and laying on my death bed that seemed real. Patrick has really crazy dreams, too. I guess death and dreaming… Is it a scenario where those themes are driving the direction of the music in any way? Yeah, maybe. It’s still upbeat; it’s still happy. But there’s just a little darker stuff on this one than the other albums. It’s longer than the other albums, too. There’s more diversity. More than half of the album has more organic instruments on it, and not as much synth. I wondered if you’d explore that more. On Reptilians, songs like “Born,” “Astoria” and the title track had a starker, avant-rock kind of sound. Is that a direction you can see Starfucker going toward more as a project in the future? Yeah, I mean the first half of the new album I wrote a lot of the songs on guitar, so it has that kind of vibe. We’re adding stuff to it now. And I wanted to make part of the album have this super happy feel—we were calling it The Drunk Album for a while. It has a lot of really weird bendy guitars and stuff. So there’s no reticence on your part to stray too far musically from the project’s primary roots in dance and pop? Well, I still wanna keep it with the same basic idea, which is a happy, positive vibe. I wouldn’t wanna go too far away. I am a little bit hesitant. I think all of the songs on here are either dark and dance-y, or fun, but maybe not as dance-y. They all still have that playful vibe that I think is important. For the last album, you allowed additional help from the rest of the band members to round things out musically on record. Are you taking that approach on this new record? Yeah. This is definitely the most collaborative album we’ve ever done, and it’s been really fun. There are even two songs on the album—one Keil started and one that Patrick started. It’s really awesome. It’s still mostly songs that I wrote and then we fleshed out together, but even Shawn helped me finish words. It’s actually what I always wanted this to be: more of a band, and not just my project. Are you finding that liberating, to allow this thing that was once mostly yours to become collaborative? Yeah, it’s like being a parent. It’s nice to have more than one parent to raise the kids [laughs]. It’s nice that we’re all working together; I like that communal feel. We feel like family.
I think with Starfucker, a big part of it is listening to it at home and reading the lyrics, but then a lot of it is emphasis on the live show, and on living right now and getting a break from the boring stresses in life. It’s nice to go to a show and forget things for a minute, especially if dancing is your thing. – Josh Hodges, Starfucker SubmergeMag.com
Can that more organic approach for the new album you were talking about before be attributed to that collaboration? No, I have to fight for that. Keil hates anything not electronic. But I’m still going to do what I want if I have a song I really like. But we pretty much agree on everything at this point. The less electronic stuff, Get your gloomy dance Keil just doesn’t get. He knows it on at Harlow’s Oct. 17 though, and is like, “Well if you when Starfucker makes a stop in Sacramento. The guys all like it…” It’s still pretty show starts at 8 p.m. and democratic. If someone really likes a tickets are just $15. Go to song and fights for it, I’ll give in. Harlows.com for more info
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Snowboarding’s unsung hero Jesse Burtner on his company Think Thank’s new film Mind the Video Man Words Jonathan Carabba photos Tim ZimMerman
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s a professional rider for Lib Tech Snowboards, creative genius at snowboard film production company Think Thank, and team manager for all Mervin Manufacturing brands, which includes Lib Tech, Gnu, Roxy Snowboards, Bent Metal Bindings and others, Jesse Burtner has managed to make a career out of his passion. At 34 years old, Burtner has dedicated his life to snowboarding ever since the moment he slid sideways down a snowy hill in 1989. “I’ve been living and breathing snowboarding since I started,” Burtner recently told Submerge. “It’s just kind of developed into work, but it hardly ever feels like work. Basically I just keep getting opportunities to communicate the joy of snowboarding whether it be through a video part, or presenting an entire movie, or an article in a magazine, or helping steer the future of an amazing company like Mervin, it’s all just talking about what I already love and want to spend my time doing, snowboarding. Compared to sitting on the couch watching TV, it is hard work, but in the grand scheme of things it’s not work, it’s a gift.”
Issue 121 • October 8 – October 22, 2012
Jesse Burtner in Mind the Video Man
The Hardest Working Man In Snow Biz
Speaking of gifts, Burtner’s film production company Think Thank has yet another one for shredders around the world. Their ninth film, Mind the Video Man, has been freshly released this summer (what a tease!) and is receiving rave reviews from those lucky enough to have seen it. A quick peek at the trailer on YouTube proves we’re in for a wild ride with powder slashes in the backcountry, insane urban rail spots, kickflips (yeah, on a snowboard), one-footers, a super rad back flip-to5050-to-180 out, all sorts of crazy stuff. Think Thank is definitely pushing the envelope with this film, but not in an “Art of Flight, we had a million dollars to make a snowboard super movie,” sort of way. It’s more of a “my friends and I like to snowboard, party, have fun and film crazy shit and we’re really good at it,” kind of thing. In celebration of Ground Zero Boardshop’s annual snowboard movie premiere party on Friday, Oct. 19 at Ace of Spades, where Mind the Video Man will air, Submerge caught up with Burtner to chat about the film, how his process changes from year to year and what it feels like to be inspiring snowboarders around the globe. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
Congrats on the release of Think Thank’s ninth film! How does it feel to be unleashing it into the world? Thanks! It’s been really good. You never know how it’s all going to go down, but this year has been exciting, a lot of good things happening with the movie and the riders in it. It’s really fun showcasing all these new guys shoulder to shoulder with some Think Thank veterans like Scott Stevens and Chris Beresford. You’ve been riding in and making shred videos for many years now. How does your process and your mindset change from year to year and from film to film? The way we keep it fresh is by giving each movie its own mission statement, with a sort of overarching philosophical theme. It means we get to use our best snowboarding of the season to tell a little deeper of a story or message and that makes it interesting year to year. Sometimes they are sort of abstract themes and sometimes they are more self-inspection. [Mind the Video Man] is looking at the state of the snowboard video in general, kind of celebrating the institution of the snowboard video and how important it is to snowboard culture and all of our lives as snowboarders. What were some standout moments for you when filming for this video? Both trips to Japan were amazing. Especially Holy Bowly—it was so much fun riding that snow bowl with some of the most epic people in snowboarding. Also our second trip to Alaska in the spring, Stevens, Beresford, Pika [Christina Burtner], [Mike] Yoshida and myself. Just such a good crew, great snow, it was like a vacation, but we were getting stuff done too.
It seems like there are more snowboard films and more companies making them every year, and budgets are getting bigger and bigger for some of those films. Does all of this weigh on you and your crew when filming year in and year out? How do you try and make your movies stand out in all of the noise? There is for sure a lot of noise. So much stuff on the Internet, everyone has a Web series. That’s cool, they get their day in the sun. And I do mean their “day,” because that’s about all the hype something can generate when it lives for free on the Internet. We try and stand out by staying insulated in our own group working on our project, trying to obtain our objectives and not constantly reference what we do back to what others are doing. It’s a combination of staying in our little Think Thank bubble unaffected by snowboarding’s trends or industry pressure while still knowing what’s going on on a grass roots level, what’s exciting, what’s next, what’s new, that’s where we want to live.
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Does it trip you out to think that countless snowboarders out there turn to your videos to get hyped before they go ride? Or that these films could be inspiring the next generation of rippers? It’s the best thing about what we do, is when you realize some people are paying attention and getting into snowboarding or staying into it and learning new tricks partially because they watched a Think Thank movie, that’s amazing.
Jesse Burtner (L) and Ted Borland (R)
What’s your favorite environment to film and/or ride in? Urban stuff or backcountry stuff? My favorite is to unlock a hidden opportunity in the terrain, whether it be a street spot or backcountry or somewhere in between. Just seeing an opportunity, some new rad way to do a trick, that moment that your brain figures it out and you know it’s on. And then being able to do that just about anywhere you go, that’s what I’m all about, if you can do that at every spot then it’s nothing but possibilities. What’s next for Think Thank? I assume you’ll drop another mindblowing shred flick about this time next year? Any other cool projects you are working on that you can talk about? We have plans for sure. Christina “Pika” Burtner, my wife, is full-time working on Think Thank now so she’s been doing a lot to get us caught up and in the position to make our best effort yet this coming season. I love our crew, Ross Phillips, Sean Lucey and of course Sean Genovese. We all work great together and there is quite a bit of passion to keep pushing in to the next level of what we do for Think Thank and snowboard videos in general.
Jesse Burtner in Mind the Video Man
It’s been a couple months since the movie’s world premiere at High Cascade Snowboard Camp. What has the feedback been like from those that have seen it? It’s been super good! It’s been really fun showing video parts from all the new guys like Jaeger Bailey, Brandon Hammid, Brandon Reis, Nial Romanek and Curtis Woodman. A whole new batch of riders shown in our distinct Think Thank style.
“My favorite is to unlock a hidden opportunity in the terrain, whether it be a street spot or backcountry or somewhere in between. Just seeing an opportunity, some new rad way to do a trick, that moment that your brain figures it out and you know it’s on.” – Jesse Burtner
Any last words? Thanks to all the riders for putting your trust in Think Thank and me and risking it all out there for Mind the Video Man, I think you guys should be really proud of what you’ve accomplished! And thanks to you guys, Submerge Magazine, see you at the show!
Think Thank’s new film Mind the Video Man will air at Ground Zero Boardshop’s annual snowboard movie premiere party on Friday, Oct. 19 at Ace of Spades. $14 in advance with tickets at all GZ locations, $16 at the door. Free lift ticket to Sierra-at-Tahoe with paid entry. All ages are welcome and there will be $10,000 worth of gear given out to the crowd. Doors open at 6 p.m. For more info or to order a copy of the film, go to Thinkthank.com.
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I hear both presidential candidates going on and on about jobs. During the first debate, President Barack Obama touted that his policies have created plenty of jobs during tough financial times; meanwhile his opponent Mitt Romney blasted the president for not creating enough jobs and claimed that if he was elected, like everyone ever would be employed (paraphrasing) —even though he practically told the debate’s moderator Jim Lehrer that he’d probably be out of work after promising to cut PBS funding. I know unemployment is a problem, but a quick perusal of Craigslist.org shows that there are jobs everywhere, that’s even accounting the 70 or so percent of them that are probably pyramid schemes. And this time of year, there’s really no reason to be out of work. Sorry for the tough love but it’s true. Just bet on football like I do. Trust me, it’s a full-time gig. Clearly betting on football is a big industry in this country. Everyone does it. Even my sister, who maybe has never sat through a full football game in her life, chips in for one of those Super Bowl box pools every year. The only reason why people were so pissed off about the replacement referees making up rules as they went along during the NFL officials’ labor dispute was because there’s so much money riding on even the most inconsequential and menial professional football game. It’s sort of the national pastime. So, since everyone does it, I’d like to think it’s legitimate work. As the days grow shorter and the weather gets colder and 300-pound dudes don heavy armor and fly into each other at preternaturally fast speeds, I enter into self-employment. Though the season doesn’t start until September, I really get to work in August to prep my fantasy draft. I am in a points-perreception, individual defensive player league, which basically means that I’m a nerd who plays in a league full of nerds. It’s also a keeper league, so I have to first think of which players from my previous year’s roster I’d like to keep for the next season, then I have to map out my draft strategy depending upon who’s available after the rest of the teams in the league have kept, taking my order in the draft and what holes I’ll need to fill into consideration. It keeps me up for hours looking at numbers and trying to find the story behind those numbers, such as, is this player on the way up? Does he have the team around him to put up better or worse stats than the year before? Does he have a history of injury? Is it in his character to do something utterly cruel and stupid like run
an illegal dog fighting ring even though he’s a ridiculously well-paid athlete and clearly isn’t hurting for money? There are a lot of factors to consider. Of course, you have to spend money to make money when it comes to betting, and that’s really all fantasy football is. It’s gambling just like calling up a bookie, except you probably won’t have to worry about the dork who’s your league commissioner breaking your legs if you don’t pay up. My league’s buy-in is just $60. It’s not a big money thing, but I’ve heard of leagues that play for some serious cash. The thing is, while even $60 may be a lot to toss away on a gamble, take into consideration that it’s a lot cheaper than buying a new suit for an interview and way less stressful. You can go to “work” in your underwear and drink a beer while you conduct your business. What’s better than that? Once the season starts, shit gets serious. You have to hawk your league’s waiver wire, cut players from week to week, constantly check your stats while watching games, read injury reports. And this year fantasy football has taken up more time than ever as there are now games every Thursday (seriously annoying, because players who are banged up have less time to heal on short weeks, wreaking havoc on your roster). But you know, it’s a living. All it takes is $60 and a dream. I’ve also entered a weekly football pool this year. A relative of mine convinced me to go in on a pick ‘em pool with him. He’s been doing it for years. He has charts and tables and numbers. He has five years of stats and figures that show which teams cover the spread and which teams don’t. He’s been doing it for years and has roped in a number of friends and relatives, and he keeps track of everyone’s picks and accumulates our wins and losses. He asked me to help him this year because he thinks I’m good at computers which means, he doesn’t use them so anyone who does must know what they’re doing (I don’t, really, but I can make a mean spreadsheet). So now football betting really is a full-time job. With fantasy football, the results of games don’t matter, just so long as your players in that game have done well. Now, I have to worry about which teams won and by how much. I watch every post-game and halftime show. I actually pay attention to Monday Night Football instead of just drinking my face off. Well, I mean, I still do that too, but it’s cool because I’m on the job. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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