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All-star issue Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com I must say this is an all-star local issue! Ganglians, Favors and Kill the Precedent are all releasing solid records this August, and they are all having release shows that should be on your “will attend” lists. In fact I think it’s safe to say that the new albums recorded by these bands will more than likely end up on our year-end “Top

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Ganglians, which has to be one of my favorite band names ever, will be releasing a double LP Still Living through hometown label Lefse Records. Still Living was recorded with Robby Moncrieff at The Hangar Studios and will be released on Aug.

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23 in the States and Aug. 29 throughout Europe on Souterrain Transmissions. They’ll be celebrating the release as well as their tour kick-off on Aug. 11 at Luigi’s Fungarden. On page 8 read our

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interview with this local psychedelic pop group as they discuss drugs, their songs and low-fi recordings.

Favors songs are written and recorded by David Mohr but

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this project includes other key band mates Ben Lewis, Chris Metcalf and Crystal McCarthy, all who add their own important

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touches to each of the songs on their new album Five Million Years.

This 11-song full-length will be released Aug. 1 on cassette—fuck yeah—but is also available for free download at Favors.bandcamp.

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Kill the Precedent will be releasing an EP called Stories of Science and Fantasy, which consists of five original songs and

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mixed and mastered at Pus Cavern. They will be celebrating their release on Aug. 6 at Harlow’s with a killer lineup to boot. On page 14 you can get a taste of what to expect from their shows, stage

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names, how they formed and have added members along the way and one of the best live show stories that I’ve ever heard.

Nathan Cordero is one of my favorite Sacramento artists.

Ever since I first discovered his work at the old Bows and Arrows location, I’ve been dying to feature him. We finally have, check out page 12. I absolutely love his phrases carved into wood and trying to read them. Now through Aug. 20 Cordero’s exhibit Are You Destined to Become Your Mother? is up at the Nelson Gallery at U.C. Davis and there will even be a special discussion about the show on Aug. 12 that will be worth catching.

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Also in this issue: write-ups on locally produced stoner comedy flick Left & Loose in the Lot, Bows’ new art exhibit Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene, local rock band Terra Ferno, Sacramento Tomato Fest and much more.

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What makes an art scene “healthy?” If you find yourself answering that question with something like, “artists and art galleries, duh!” then Bows & Arrows’ Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene exhibit, opening on Friday, Aug. 5, is sure to expand upon your notion of what makes a thriving arts culture in a community. The exhibit is inspired directly by the writing of Renny Pritikin, director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at U.C. Davis, who originally penned his “Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene” list many years ago. “I was on a panel years ago, 15 years ago maybe,” remembered Pritikin during a recent conversation with Submerge.

“And I can’t even remember what the topic of the panel was, but those were my notes for what I was going to talk about. It’s one of those things where you never know what project that you take on is going to really stick with you and have a life of its own and which ones will just be forgotten.

I’ve done exhibitions that I didn’t think much about, that I just threw together and they became famous, you know, and ones that I worked on for years that I thought were incredible that nobody cared about. I’ve written things that I thought were major and other things, like this, that were almost a throwaway but have gone on to have a life of its own.”

Pritikin’s “Prescription” is made up of 24 bullet points ranging from, “No. 1: A large pool of artists, there’s a critical mass or tipping point that makes a scene,” to “No. 8: Sophisticated writers to document, discuss and promote new ideas/continuing regional development,” to “No. 17: Articulate artist leaders,” to “No. 23: Events that bring people together, scheduled multi-gallery opening nights for example.” The list is a sort of Holy Grail for any advocate of local art, including Trisha Rhomberg,

co-owner of Bows & Arrows. Rhomberg came across Pritikin’s writings online over a year ago and was immediately touched and inspired by the list. “I saved it to my desktop and I read a bunch of articles online about it and I kept reading it to myself,” she said. “Then I got my sketch book out and wrote the whole thing down by hand so I could start to memorize it and think more about it. Then I was like, ‘Oh my God, wouldn’t it be cool if all my other friends and artists I know could draw a piece of this and we could do a project together?’” And so the idea for the Prescription… art show was born.

Rhomberg collaborated with over 20 local artists, all of whom took items from Pritikin’s list and transferred them onto T-shirts. “Man these shirts are looking cool,” Rhomberg said excitedly. “Every day I’ve wanted to wear one of them. I just want the word out.” One wall inside Bows will feature the Prescription blown up for all to read. The other wall will feature select T-shirts and maybe even some of the artists’ original illustrations framed. Plenty of the shirts will be for sale, too, so not only can you soak up knowledge about what makes an art scene healthy, you can take a piece home with you to wear, spreading the message further and further. After all, that’s the whole point of this thing. “It really is the most important thing I’ve ever come across,” admitted Rhomberg. “And I’m really excited that it has been working. People are working together and learning new crafts and are being supportive and becoming more aware of each other and of each other’s talents and where they live and what they do and participating in buying art, which is what we’ve set out to do.” For more information, visit Bowscollective.com.

Heavy music fans, mark your calendars for what may be the best lineup of Northern California metal bands in a long, long time. Hella Metal Fest will take place on Oct. 1 at Crest Theatre and Submerge could not be more excited to be a sponsor of this monstrous concert. The lineup includes: A Holy Ghost Revival (pictured), Amongst the Undead, At the Crossroads, Jack Ketch, Journal, Memento Mori, Nightmare in the Twilight, Out for Blood, Taunis Year One, The Antioch Synopsis, The Kennedy Veil and The Soothing Sound of Flight. These are arguably 12 of the North State’s most promising, talented metal bands, and tickets are just $12 pre-sale and $15 at the door. Keep an eye on Hellametalfest.com and right here in these pages for more details as they are announced.

98 Rock’s Local Licks show is no more, at least for the time being, as host and longtime local music supporter Mark Gilmore was let go from Entercom last week. Immediately his Facebook erupted with an outpouring of support from local bands and fans alike, making it easily apparent just how deep Gilmore’s influence runs. For over a decade he’s made local music accessible to the masses—heck, he even played one of my old band’s shit on the air once and had us in the studio for a quick interview; it was one of the coolest things that’s ever happened to me! Gilmore made it clear on his Facebook page that there is no bad blood between him and Entercom and urged his supporters (and there are many of them) to lash out against the radio group with caution. He will be missed on air, that’s for sure, but he’ll still be around the scene and I personally can’t wait to see what sort of projects he gets himself wrapped up in next. For now, his Friday night shows at Shenanigans are still a go, so stop in and buy him a beer and tell him thanks for his countless hours spent supporting local music. I know I plan to.

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The Optimistic Pessimist Patriot Games Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com We are basically fucked. The federal government is beyond broken and no amount of fresh paint or new carpet is going to fix it.

The whole thing is already being held together by twigs, gum and string, so it shouldn’t take much more to bring it down. Both sides are pointing fingers, but I think we can thank both the Democrats and Republicans for this shoddy craftsmanship.

This group of idiots can’t agree on anything anymore. Everything has to be an ideological battle of abortion proportions.

These days, the members of Congress couldn’t pass a bill recognizing that the sky is blue because Democrats would think it meant they didn’t believe in global warming and Republicans would think it was a liberal trick to increase regulation on coal burning power plants.

With such a high level of trust, it’s a wonder why the Left and Right aren’t more productive. Both sides claim to have “big ideas” to solve all our problems. Occasionally, one side will throw out a plan to do something, or in the Republicans’ case, not do something.

Once it’s out there, the other side pulls the plan their way. Then the party who presented the idea pulls it back.

It’s like watching the world’s weakest game of tug-o-war. Neither side really wants to win because then they would have no one to blame when things keep falling apart. And so, they pull ever so lightly, each side trying to get the flag just slightly on their side of the line. Almost no one falls, and when they do both sides break for a replacement. At the end of the match, it’s a draw and the only ones pulled into the mud pit are the American people.

That’s not entirely true; not all of us end up in the mud. The wealthy members of this country seem to keep their clothing unsullied.

While the rich are few in number, the cash donations they send to their good friends in the Republican and Democratic parties allow them to speak louder than an entire nation. Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision, these rich people don’t even have to be people anymore. Corporations are now free to dump piles of cash on candidates who couldn’t possibly feel obligated to repay the SubmergeMag.com

favor once they are elected.

Republicans have shown themselves to be a loyal bunch, and this couldn’t be truer when it comes to these campaign contributors.

For example, conservatives refuse to raise taxes on the wealthy. They keep arguing that we need to leave the rich alone, because they are the ones investing in all of us. If by “investing,” they mean firing all their American employees and taking their jobs overseas to increase their value on the stock market, then the rich are really investing in America. Clearly, they need the government’s protection.

While the Republicans choose to focus their efforts on the rich, Democrats try to make everyone else happy…all at the same time. You don’t even have to be a human being. Democrats aren’t above befriending snowy river owls, two-toed sloths or dung beetles either. Since it is impossible to please everyone and everything all the time, Democrats don’t really get much done when they are in charge. When Democrats finally do agree on something, they do a shitty job explaining it to the rest of us. They lay out every facet of their plan in excruciating detail, but Joe Shithead can hardly wrap his meth-addled brain around basic traffic laws let alone healthcare reform. He likes big pretty pictures, and the Democrats suck at drawing.

The Republicans, on the other hand, are excellent at drawing…conclusions. The more outlandish, the better. Even when the evidence is completely stacked against them (i.e. global warming), they will not admit defeat. They will exaggerate, misdirect, conceal and outright lie to appear correct.

Once they have an idea, they will stick with it for eternity.

Really, neither side is any worse or better than the other. They both don’t seem to have a clue. And yet, these ignorant, stubborn, egomaniacal, petty idiots meet for what turns out to be about 10 hours of actual work per year and decide the fate of the rest of us.

They make the same mistakes repeatedly.

They bring up the same ideas and complaints over and over again. They lie, cheat and steal with impunity. They are destroying this country, but if you ask them, they are patriots!

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A Giant Keyboard, Drum Kits, Guitars and More at Rock U: The Institute of Rock ‘n’ Roll at the State Fair Remember the classic scenes from the 1988 comedy Big where Tom Hanks’ character plays a giant keyboard with his feet? Now you’ll have an opportunity to do just that at this year’s State Fair at Cal Expo, inside building No. 5 at Stage Nine’s interactive exhibit called Rock U: The Institute of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Not only is there a giant keyboard to mess around on, there are drum kits, guitars and so much more. It’s a music lover’s paradise! The exhibition focuses on three distinct ways we’ve experienced rock ’n’ roll through the years with “The Studio Experience,” “The Concert Experience” and finally “The Playing Experience.” There are so many cool things to play with, read and experience at this exhibit, which after the State Fair will begin a two-year North American tour. See and experience it while you can! The State Fair runs until July 31. For more information about the Rock U exhibit, visit Stagenine.com/rock-u-exhibit.

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Red Carpet Premier of Left and Loose in the Lot at Crest Theatre on Aug. 5 Left and Loose in the Lot is a hilarious locally produced comedy about two stoner security guards who witness a murder while working the night shift at a parking garage, which throws a serious damper on their night that just seems to go from bad to worse. Starring local talent Waynee Wayne, host of KSFM 102.5’s morning show and Demetrius Dedmon, also a 102.5 DJ, the Lot was shot entirely in Sacramento and Folsom. Also featured in the film is Hollywood actor/producer Christopher Michael Holley, who has worked alongside Joe Carnahan, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton and Jeremy Piven on such films as Pride and Glory, 21, Smokin’ Aces

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and more. The Lot is also the first film from writer/ producer Dawn Dais, a Sacramento native and bestselling author, so there is no denying the amount of local talent behind the making of this film. The official press release says the Lot is “Harold and Kumar meets Bad Boys,” and based on the film’s trailer we would say that is a pretty accurate description. Toss in Half Baked and How High and you’re almost spot-on. The entire cast and crew, along with some other special guests, will be at Crest Theatre (1013 K Street) on Friday, Aug. 5 for a red carpet event starting at 6:30 p.m.

There will also be a film screening, which is technically the “world premier” of the Lot, at 7:30 p.m. For more information about the film, to view the trailer and to purchase tickets to the premier for just $5, visit Leftandloose.com.

The second annual Sacramento Tomato Fest is taking place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Town & Country Village (Marconi & Fulton in Sacramento) on Saturday, July 30. Local restaurant chefs will compete in three categories: Best Salsa, Best Bruschetta and Best Tomato Soup (hot or cold). Samples will be available, too! You can also enter your own homegrown tomatoes into one of three categories: Largest, Smallest and Ugliest. There’s a $500 prize for the winner in each category. The festival will include art, wine tasting, cooking demonstrations, live entertainment, a kids area and much more.

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Terra Ferno EP Release at Shenanigans on Aug. 19 Sacramento rock band Terra Ferno has a new EP ready to be unleashed on Aug. 19 at Shenanigans, located at 705 J Street. Terra Ferno has undeniably been one of Sacramento’s harder working bands as of late, opening for national acts such as Alien Ant Farm, Smile Empty Soul, Adema and Taproot among others. Submerge caught up with vocalist Adam Page to get the 411 on the new release and learned that it’s five-tracks total, all recorded at Sanctuary Recording Studios here in Sacramento and that it is yet-to-be-titled, although Page says he’s kicking around a working title. There will be physical copies of the new EP available for free at the Aug. 19 show, which will also feature Picture Me Broken (from Redwood City, Calif.), Sacramento’s Some Fear None and Placerville’s Into the Desert. All you have to do to get your free CD is buy a $5 pre-sale ticket for the release show through the band (Reverbnation.com/terraferno1) and sign up for their mailing list at their merch table the night of the show. Killer deal, bro! Copies of the new EP will also be available at Dimple Records, The Beat and the ZuhG Life Store.

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Ganglians release a new double LP, Still Living Words Jenn Walker • photo Jan Rasmus Voss

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orget rolling joints or slamming pills. Pop on a pair of headphones, shut your eyes and listen a while, and within minutes you are high as a kite. Meth huff? Easy.

Coke snoot? No problem, just queue the track on your laptop. Wouldn’t it be nice if a high was as easy as paying 99 cents for an audio delivery of pure ecstasy?

In fact, the audio drug fad has recently caught media attention as parents debate whether or not “i-dosing” is in fact getting their children high. Communities in the Midwest have been particularly stressed about it, Ryan Grubbs, frontman of Sacramento’s psychedelic acid pop act Ganglians mentioned in a recent conversation with Submerge.

There was a sense of amusement in the way he described how genuinely terrified parents are by the thought their children might get hooked on ear-fed drugs. While the notion is laughable, the Montana native weighed in heavily on the effect music can have on the body, especially when it is delivered through headphones.

“We’re all guilty of listening to music on laptops and stuff,” he said.

But there is no musical experience that quite compares to an array of sounds streaming into each ear through a set of headphones, he added, creating a sort of vortex that almost feels paralyzing.

“There’s something about headphones [where] you can’t ignore the music, everything around you becomes part of the music rather than just being in the background.”

Rest assured, Ganglians are not looking to convert their listeners into junkies. Creating a setting, sometimes hallucinogenic or based on psychedelic experiences, however, plays a part in how the four band members (Grubbs, guitarist Kyle Hoover, drummer Alex Sowles and bassist Adrian Comenzind) write their songs.

Stereophonics, the encompassing delivery of sounds to each eardrum, is something that the four-piece has toyed with since the release of both their self-titled debut EP and full-length Monster Head Room in 2009.

Still Living, Ganglians’ next anticipated album via record labels Lefse and Souterrain Transmissions (in Europe), is no different.

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The band released its first single, “Jungle,” in April 2011, accompanied by a tripped-out music video saturated with colors and Play-doh like prosthetics (which debuted in May), and quickly stirred an online buzz amongst music blogs and sites like Pitchfork and Fader.

It was followed by the release of another single, “Sleep,” in July, made available for free download online.

The double LP comes out Aug. 23, giving Ganglians-lovers the chance to experience Still Living in its entirety. While Monster Head Room feels a bit more tribal and raw, Still Living is a dose of shimmering exultation, something like a joy ride. From the opening notes of “Drop the Act,” an anthemic call to arms to today’s apathetic youth, the album will keep listeners guessing from start to finish. Like Monster Head Room, it is peppered with subtle surprises—sounds of rain, panting, sirens, bats—staying true to the band’s ear-teasing tendencies. At the same time, Ganglians provides an album that’s more complex than its predecessors, venturing into R&B territory with “Things to Know,” a minimal composition of rumbling bass and Grubbs on vocals, and exploring heavier composition with the sixplus minute ballad “Bradley.”

Meanwhile, the band is preparing for their August tour, which starts along the West Coast on Aug. 10. Grubbs has been living in San Francisco, and with his return to Sacramento there is little time to waste being five months out of practice.

Still, this band is young, and jobs and living situations get in the way. Touring and putting out records was not something the band had expected during their early beginnings in the attic of a Sacramento house three-and-a-half years ago.

The fact that they have come this far by their mid-20s has been a surprise, or a “happy accident,” as Hoover put it.

Submerge spent an afternoon with three of the young four at Luigi’s Fungarden.

Discussing the upcoming album, lo-fi and slacker-ism over beer, Sowles sat quietly while Grubbs and Kyle did most of the talking. The following is an excerpt from our conversation.

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When I listened to Still Living I was feeling really elated. Do you have the same feeling when you’re playing your songs?

Ryan Grubbs: When we’re recording, there are moments of euphoria, and not necessarily dread, but uneasiness, uneasiness juxtaposed with euphoria. Yin and yang kind of stuff. Not trying to be too blissed out and not trying to be too depressed. It’s an album. You want people to experience a range of emotions.

Were any of the songs reflective of Sacramento living?

RG: Of course. And of people, and just day-today life. Struggles. First and foremost you’re trying to please yourself and experience yourself.

And secondly you want to give your friends something. And then after that is the wide spectrum. You want everyone all and all, to find something there. You know, “Jungle”—it’s like the city of trees, it almost feels like a jungle but it’s kind of urban. “Sleep” is kind of about trying to escape day-to-day life by just sleeping, but then you have that voice in the back of your head that just throttles you out of it, like, “Hey, you got to make something. You can’t just like sit on the porch all day doing nothing.” They’re definitely reflective of the life living in Sacramento, for sure.

I think that the whole ambiance of the album is very busy.

Alright, you can laugh at this question, but do you feel like your music represents your generation at all?

Kyle Hoover: In the sense of slacker-ism? There is a sense of underachievement, a little bit, every once in a while.

RG: Definitely. We are not trained musicians at all. We are not studio musicians. We just kind of picked up the instruments and tried to create what’s in our heads. But as far as this is music created for us, and for our friends, definitely.

I mean that’s part of the reason I put “Drop the Act” in the beginning, because it’s kind of a half-hearted call to arms. Because I think I wrote the lyrics for that song after reading an article about the “twenty-somethings,” and I had never even thought about that point, but I thought, “Wow, they’re just choosing to drop out in bigger numbers than ever.” They just don’t want to be part of the system. They’re kind of just fed up with all the politics. They don’t want to participate at all. And that’s kind of what “Drop the Act,” the first song on the album, is just about not wanting to participate in that. And I think that a lot of people in our generation feel the same way.

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When you guys are writing songs, how often are psychedelics part of your writing process?

RG: Never. Well just weed. The part that it is a process is in…

KH: Conceptualizing. Experiencing it and drawing from that experience and putting it in a song. But none of us ever get high and write music.

RG: Yeah, I tried it. “This is so amazing!” And then the next day, I was like, “What the fuck? Am I scratching a needle across the table?” But at the time it’s all-absorbing. There’s nothing else in the world that matters.

KH: I feel like as far as psychedelics influence goes in our music, it’s more constructing that feeling from your experience on psychedelics.

In a recent interview you expressed a desire to move away from the lo-fi garage scene and hope that Still Living accomplished that. Are you hoping to appeal to a different crowd?

KH: I don’t think we were ever trying to appeal to the lo-fi crowd in general. We never intended to be lo-fi. That’s why I get so mad when I read about that stuff in music journalism in general, because I feel like all these bands that we’re lumped in with and we sort of know, no one goes out of their way to make a bad-sounding record.

RG: I don’t know, there’s something that’s very rewarding about that kind of recording and I understand why I like lo-fi and why other people like lo-fi. There’s something about lo-fi, it’s just the perfect encapsulation of that moment you can’t tweak with. Whatever you have around you at the time, that’s what you’re going to do with it.

KH: But I think Monster Head Room was definitely intended to be a hi-fi record, it just wasn’t there.

And then this was like, oh shit, we got the money and the studio to do it, let’s make a fucking clean record. A pop record. A meaningful pop record.

Still Living will be released “I don’t think through Lefse Records on we were ever Aug. 23. Go to Lefserecords. com for ordering information. trying to You can check out Ganglians live at Luigi’s Fungarden on appeal to the Aug. 11. lo-fi crowd in general. We never intended to be lo-fi.

That’s why I get so mad when I read about that stuff in music journalism in general, because I feel like all these bands that we’re lumped in with and we sort of know, no one goes out of their way to make a badsounding record.”

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Work It Out

David Mohr expands his musical horizons with Favors Words Blake Gillespie

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he breakup of Sacramento’s 20,000 was a complicated one. The group had an electro-Sonny and Cher thing going on, until it imploded at a fateful summer night’s show. David Mohr, one half of 20,000, was Cher in this scenario, in that it led to songs in the vein of “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down).” Assuming the moniker of Favors, Mohr’s series of fractured digital EPs sought comfort in the familiar synthesizer framework, a kinship with Lou Reed’s “Hangin’ Round” chorus and anti-anthems that put weekends and summers in their crosshairs.

With the heart pain now out of his system, Mohr is exploring the futuristic vision his friends have always associated with the bedroom project before he was able to see it. “I started writing these songs when I was living with the rest of the band, so that is over a year’s worth of songs that I picked from to form this album,” Mohr said. “So in that time, I basically started feeling like there were a lot of different subjects I hadn’t approached yet with Favors, and I wanted to open it up so that the future of the band could go in any direction.”

The band he lived with was once called Impotent Ninja, which consisted of Ben Lewis, Chris Metcalf and Crystal McCarthy. The house mates have since gone their separate ways, but their time together allowed Mohr to get in a better place that led to the completion of Five Million Years, a record which is somewhere between sugary synth-pop and music that can help break a healthy sweat. “The songs I write will always have a pop element to them, I think,” he said. “Unless I become so involved in it that I lose focus of what it means to be pop. But I don’t know. I like fun songs. I like dance music and I like electronic music. My friend’s little sister said that Favors sounded like ‘workout music’ when she heard it. That’s perfect.”

From what I’ve seen, you’ve taken to the art of being a frontman. Were there any famous lead singers you took cues from?

David Byrne became a huge inspiration early on. He added so much to the music just with his movements and appearance on stage. Of course he was a great guitar player and a great musician, but I was most intrigued by his gestures. It seemed like he was really thinking on stage, and channeling that into the songs.

Have you gone for the cord windmill and catch the mic maneuver yet?

I used to do the windmill cord spin in my first band. I was really good at it, but I had to duct tape the mic to the cord so it wouldn’t fly off.

I’m too old for that now. My favorite part about live shows is when things start going wrong, though. It’s fun to try and make the best of it and keep the show going. During our last show, Crystal’s electronic drum set kept falling apart because I had broken it in half while loading gear on stage. Chris had taped it together before we started, but I had to keep lifting it up for Crystal while she played. I love those moments. Things start falling apart so quickly that trying to fix them becomes ridiculous.

When I last talked with you, Favors was a bedroom project of EP releases with a lot of post-breakup songs. Listening to the new record, it seems as though Favors is exploring abstract territory, with songs of starships, cash-machines and caves. What brought this change in songwriting?

A friend of mine said that Favors sounded “futuristic” to him, and I thought that was funny. I had never thought of it like that, so I thought I would push the science fiction element in some of the songs. I was hesitant to do that at first, because I didn’t want the songs to feel too distant or detached from reality, but I kept reminding myself that David Bowie wrote tons of futuristic space age songs, but it took me years of listening to ever realize that.

They always just sounded like awesome songs from the ‘70s. Maybe I don’t pay attention to lyrics.

Favors is a full band now, but what’s the recording process like?

Is it done as a band or do your band mates learn the songs after you’ve created them?

In terms of songwriting and recording, Favors is still a bedroom project.

I write and record the songs on a laptop at home. The live band was formed at the very beginning; it was always Chris, Ben and Crystal, but it just took some time to get things going with that part of the project. Usually I’m working on music alone, but I always wanted the live band to exist as well. It’s nice to have a group to share it with, and it makes practicing and playing live way more fun. During practice of course, everybody contributes their own touches, and of course Ben is a wizard on guitar, so we have to incorporate that. Everyone is amazing at their instruments and is way beyond me in musical ability.

I’m very lucky to have friends who want to play the songs.

Now that you mention Bowie, I feel like the album title Five Million Years is just an extension of Bowie’s “Five Years.”

The album title Five Million Years comes from my desire to create a larger time frame and a more expansive imaginary space for the listener to step into. I’m interested in the way that time can be distorted by music, like how fast songs can make the listener feel as if time is moving quicker. It’s strange; music is very connected to our concept of time.

You don’t see many indie bands with a frontman. Was it weird at first to have no instrument responsibilities on stage?

I’m really not a very good musician, so playing keyboard on stage is difficult for me. I thought it would be best if I just focused on the singing, that way I can express something that the music isn’t expressing live. I still feel uncomfortable performing live, though; it definitely feels like the fakest part of the whole thing for me. But that doesn’t mean I’m not trying to do my best.

The cassette culture is on the rise, but has not quite hit Sacramento yet. Why did you choose this format?

I’ve always wanted Favors music to be available for free. I think that anyone who wants it should be able to have it. Also, I don’t know too many people who pay for music anymore, and I especially don’t know very many people who buy CDs, so I thought I might as well do a cassette.

It’s still nice to hold something in your hands that represents the music. I think the same reasoning goes into vinyl production, but personally I have more of a nostalgic connection to tapes. The first music I owned was They Might Be Giants’ Flood on a cassette that I bought from my brother. I listened to records as a kid, but I had a more personal connection to tapes. I used to make cover art for cassette tapes of made-up bands years before I ever started writing music. Despite all the nostalgia and my love of cassettes, there is also something funny about releasing tapes now in 2011. I like the fact that I recorded the music on a computer but I’m putting it out in a medium that degrades the quality and its near obsoleteness. It’s a wink backwards.

The bonuses are that it is really cheap to do and they look cool. I had fun designing them and putting them all together. It’s also funny to see people’s reactions. At least one member of Favors thinks releasing a cassette is a terrible idea.

“A friend of mine said that Favors sounded ‘futuristic’ to him, and I thought that was funny. I had never thought of it like that, so I thought I would push the science fiction element in some of the songs. I was hesitant to do that at first, because I didn’t want the songs to feel too distant or detached from reality, but I kept reminding myself that David Bowie wrote tons of futuristic space age songs, but it took me years of listening to ever realize that.”

– David Mohr, Favors

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Terrible idea or not, Favors’ new album Five Million Years will be available on cassette around Aug. 1. You can order a copy and get a free full digital download at Favors. bandcamp.com. Check out the band live to celebrate the release of the album at The Press Club in Sacramento with Evan Bailey and The Happy Medium on Aug. 4.

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Master Craft

Nathan Cordero carves a path from gallery janitor to full-fledged artist Words Amy Serna

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ine years ago, Nathan Cordero used to walk through the Crocker Art Museum every day.

But unlike the other gallery visitors who would slowly roam the hallways and take their turn to enjoy each piece of art, Cordero “wasn’t inspired by any of it.” He would walk into the museum, clock in as the custodian, clean the building and head home without feeling the slightest inspiration from the artwork. “After a while you get sick of seeing the same thing. I always noticed flaws in the art and saw something that I didn’t like about it,” said Cordero over the phone. “After seeing everything for so long you usually find one little thing, sometimes the whole piece that’s just…wrong.” But these days

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Nathan is taking on a new role of being the artist behind the gallery. Until Aug. 20, art lovers can take a quick peek into Cordero’s mind by visiting the Nelson Gallery at U.C. Davis.

The 36-year-old Sacramento native has found a way to take everyday objects and turn them into unique handmade carvings on pieces of wood and leaves. The art pieces show images of objects, people and quotes.

Although the common objects shown in the carvings (such as flowers, razor blades, fishing hooks, safety pins and pencils) have no particular meaning, they all share one thing in common. “All of those are really easy to carve on a particular Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

surface of wood. So I was able to do more detailed things on that carving,” Cordero said. “When you are able to cut details, it’s really cool to take small images or small subjects and pile them together.”

One of the “small subjects” that he chose to carve repetitively were cigarettes and pictures of Marlboro cartons. “There’s no political message at all. It has nothing to do with tobacco prohibition.

It has nothing to do with promoting cigarette smoking. It’s both controversial and satisfying,” Cordero added. “I enjoy smoking cigarettes.

I’ve quit many times, then restarted, quit and restarted. It’s just something that is part of my life, a part of growing up and growing old.”

Cordero also chose to make repeated creations of masked men and women, which were inspired after he discovered a box of photos.

“I found a box of head shots from a theater production in Sacramento; they are all people from the Sacramento Valley. I don’t know any of them,” said Cordero. “My original idea was to conceal their identities and then put them up all over Sacramento.”

Nearly all of the wood pieces that are hanging in the gallery were found “everywhere” outside, many of them coming from construction sites. “I find a piece and know exactly what I’m going to do with it right away,” Cordero said. “And once it’s prepared, it’s ready to go.”

“I find a piece [of wood] and know exactly what I’m going to do with it right away.”

– Nathan Cordero At first glance some of the carvings seem as if they are filled with random letters that are aligned with no spaces in between, but after taking the time to read them, quotes and phrases begin to form. He lifts these quotes from headlines in fashion magazines, such as Vogue or Elle, including “Eighty-Seven Swim Suits to Flatter Every Figure,” “Imagine Christina Aguilera Coming Over to Your Place Every Night,” or “Treat Your Body Like Your Face.” The name of his exhibit, Are You Destined to Become Your Mother?, was chosen from a headline he read on the cover of Real Simple Magazine. But the same headline was also found on a cover of Vogue from the late 1960s. “I thought that was kind of interesting, that decades later the same headline would pop up in a completely different manner,” Cordero said.

The majority of the pieces held in the gallery were created this year during the span of only six months, which is very little time considering some pieces took Nathan more than 20 hours to SubmergeMag.com

complete. During those months of hand carving every piece with razor blades, Nathan would experience minor accidental cuts on his hands about three times a day. All 1,600 razor blades that were used and collected during the hard work almost fill up an entire wall in the gallery. The blades are formed in an X and aligned to create a dramatic 3-D image.

“It’s a tool that I use to do most of my work. I originally just started collecting them,” Cordero explained. “After noticing the amount of shadows from the different directions of light, I thought a whole wall of those would be great. I finally had the chance to do it.”

Although Cordero did not attend art school, he has an eye for recognizing everyday objects people normally pass up and transforming them into a unique art piece. His wood carvings started after he took notice of a piece of wood in his room and “put a hole through it and peeled away at it.”

“I’ve always been interested in art. In my early 20s I actually started to consider art as a career,” said Cordero.

The Nelson is not the only gallery that he has on his resume. His art has been shown at the Verge Gallery and Axis Gallery in Sacramento, The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, N.Y., and Ritual Roasters Gallery in San Francisco. Cordero was born in Woodland, “does a lot of fishing” during his spare time and paints houses during the day. But even after his job during the day is over, his art isn’t finished yet. “Whatever time I have available, I’ll work,” Cordero said. “Like today after work, I’ll probably go to my studio and finish up what I’ve been working on.”

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ndustrial metal might conjure images of military-like precision with perhaps a totalitarian-style frontman at its controls. Kill the Precedent certainly evokes those images with their music. Thundering beats—both live and electronic—blast behind thrashing riffs and the two-pronged vocal attack of Twig the Exfoliator and The Ugly American. However, speaking with the two vocalists in a recent interview, the guys seemed jovial, bordering on jolly. For instance, if you were to call The Ugly American’s cell phone, you might hear The Dead Kennedys’ classic “California Uber Alles” playing while you waited for him to answer your phone. He said that since Jerry Brown was re-elected as governor, it seemed appropriate. “It’s such a fucking mess out here,” he quipped. “I thought it was pretty damn funny. At least it’s not an actor.” If KTP was indeed an army, in demeanor, they’d be more akin to the cool jokesters from Stripes than the cold-blooded killers of Full Metal Jacket.

Make no mistake, though; the band’s music is a no-holds-barred aural assault.

KTP is ready to release a new EP, Stories of Science and Fantasy, which will consist of six original songs and two covers (The Smiths’ “Death of a Disco Dancer” and Jessica Lea Mayfield’s “We’ve Never Lied,” which Twig says was recorded in a hotel room in Oakland). Evoking the days when bands like Ministry and KMFDM crashed mainstream rock’s party, songs such as “Questions for Weapons” wield an imposing arsenal or metal riffs and huge beats, courtesy of electronic beatsmith/guitarist Hamburger, guitarist Killsbury and drummer Sgt. Pepper, while “Free Reign” is a throbbing, almost dance-y track highlighted by Jon the Jew’s pummeling bass line and an underlying, monolithic electronic groove.

Members of the band are no strangers to the Sacramento rock scene. They have played in bands such as Red Tape, Diseptikons and Rivithead in the past, but Kill the Precedent started as a side project of The Ugly American and Hamburger.

“Hamburger and I got together in 2006 and started screwing around with the drum machine,” The Ugly American explained. “We were kind of doing a little Big Black kind of deal, just having some fun. We recorded some music and got a hold of Twig, and I said, ‘I got to record some vocals, can you come down and help me out?’ We recorded vocals.

Twig and I had been friends for many years, and he was giving me this blank stare, so I was like, ‘OK, you didn’t like it, but thanks for coming down and recording.’ And he said, ‘No, I want in. I’m fucking in.’ He took over from there.”

Twig’s introduction to the band was through the song “Cop Out,” which will appear on Stories of Science and Fantasy. More songs were started, but Twig said they were left unfinished. As each new member of the band became a permanent fixture, the songs began to flesh out.

“I wanted Killsbury to put a guitar riff over that—just that one song [“Cop Out”],” Twig said. “I’ve been in bands with all these other people in Red Tape and Diseptikons, and I was like just do this one song, but then it became do this song and that song…and eventually that’s how each member has come to be in the band.”

For The Ugly American, Kill the Precedent became a way of rediscovering the music he loved to make in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s with bands such as Rivithead and Battalion 53 after years of playing in punk bands.

“It dawned on me that I really missed that shit,” he said. “It was powerful, it was fun, it was endless. You could do whatever you want and get away with a hell of a lot more.”

In the following interview, KTP’s two vocalists fill us in on the making of the forthcoming EP and what draws them to making this kind of music. We find out that the reason why the harsh-sounding vocalists are so jovial is because they’re playing music they actually love.

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It seems like industrial is a genre of music that’s gone back underground. Is that part of the excitement of revisiting it?

The Ugly American: Kind of, but not really. There’s no denying that those bands have had an influence. It’s obvious—and it should. It’s fucking awesome music... I can just say I missed the power of it.

Twig the Exfoliator: I liked the freedom of it. When we first started jamming around, with Jeremy from the Snobs, the bass player, was doing a bunch of electronic beats and me and [Ugly] would sing over it. It wasn’t hip-hop singing, but it was like a Fugazi overlay over dance music. I definitely wanted to not do just Ministry type stuff, but I wanted some melody in there to make it a bit different.

Listening to the music, you can definitely hear that sort of punktype melodies.

Twig: Whatever [Hamburger] makes up beatwise and gives to us, half of them could be more on the dance side, some of them are more hard and fast, or slow and driving. If we hear something that we like, we’ll get working on that. Part of the reason why I wanted to do this was because I didn’t want to work with drummers anymore [laughs]. I was mad at all the drummers I’ve ever played with, and they take too long to set up. I was sick of loading all their shit into my van. That was the original idea, “Oh, we do whatever. We don’t need a drummer. Be like a hip-hop band, just plug in an iPod and do it like that.” That’s the way I wanted to do it. I wanted to put on a big production of a show, but within our budget.

Ugly: When Twig was on tour with Hoods—I think they were in Europe. He was adamant about it. He was like, “No drummers. I don’t want any fucking drummers.” Before we even put a drummer in there, I wanted one, because I wanted to add to the power and the beats and make it sound as large as we could. But he was all, “Hell no, we’re not doing it.” So, he goes to Europe and we grabbed our old buddy [Sgt.] Pepper. We brought him in to practice while Twig was gone. When he got back, he showed up for practice, and we were like, “Oh look, it’s…Pepper.” He was like, “You dick.”

[Laughs.]

T: [Laughs] But it worked out.

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Twig, you said you came in and did the middle section of “Cop Out,” but after doing that you wanted in. What drew you to this project?

Twig: I wanted to do something different. I wanted to do drum machines and just sample stuff by myself, but I’m completely computer illiterate. I don’t know how to do any of that stuff, and I couldn’t get anyone to do it. I talked to [Ugly], and they were already doing it for a couple of months, so I went in to record with them. The beats were big and huge, and it was something different.

Since he let me even try something, and I could overlay a couple different vocal layers, and me and Sean could go back and forth instead of having to write a song’s lyrics all by ourselves—and you know, run out of breath—it made it better that we could share the vocal part. I liked that. I liked who he was working with, because I had known [Hamburger] from Rivithead and Battalion 53. We were also working with Evan at that point, Tha Fruitbat.

It seems like everyone who has come into the project has left their own stamp on it. Is that how the songwriting goes or do you start with the beats and go on from there?

Twig: Hamburger does all the beats and stuff. He’ll do two different parts with maybe some guitar, because he plays guitar too. He’ll just send us two-minute loops so we can get an idea about it. Then usually we will come up with singing structures, and then we’ll leave it alone. We won’t finish anything, and then we’ll bring it to practice and everyone else will listen to it and have their input. We start arranging the songs from there, cutting out parts, changing the drum beats, adding different parts, then we actually start writing the songs, the lyrics and stuff.

Ugly: It goes in reverse. It’s not the typical way you write a song, but it’s totally working for us.

Twig: Everyone’s really busy, so it’s all sent over the computer.

Hamburger will send the beats to us, and we’ll pick the ones we like—the whole band will. And we’ll just work on it from there.

A lot of the bands we were talking about as influences before are largely associated with one guy, like Al Jourgensen for example, but it sounds like you guys actually play the songs to write them, which I think is kind of interesting for industrial music.

Twig: It’s like any other band. We’ll start arguing…but it all works

out in the end as long as no one’s picky and tries to be the highlight of the song. Everyone knows their place.

Ugly: There are no egos, arrogance or bullshit. I know this sounds hokey, but it’s a completely collective effort. Everyone has their say.

Like Twig says, we’ll argue to friggin’ death over it, but everybody’s got their two cents, and it just keeps piling things on without making it too much. It’s one cool idea after the other. It’s fun. I think the biggest thing is just that it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

I’ve seen that you guys have had girls in costume dancing at the shows, people covered in blood, synching up videos to your songs.

Is that something you get together and collaborate on?

Twig: [Killsbury] handles most of the video stuff. He takes a while to get it with the beats and intros to every song. Except for [Hamburger], none of us are that great with computers. To do all that is a bit of a learning experience. And we don’t do it the way we should. We’re rolling into shows with DVD players and stuff, and a projector from like 1992.

Ugly: We try to change it up every time if we can. We did a good run, if you don’t mind me saying, at Blue Lamp. We called it “Cocaine Drug Dealers” or “Colombian Drug Dealers.” Everyone in the band was dressed up in cammo and we were dressed up in white suits.

I filled up a bunch of baggies with flour. It was a great show, but it was the stupidest thing I ever did. Twig and I started throwing these bags of flour out into the audience and hit a fan. It went everywhere. Everyone was covered. I got off stage, and the guy was like, “It’s going to be $450 to clean up the place.”

Twig: It’s kind of like having sheet rock down or something. You can’t get rid of it… All the bottles were covered. We were like, “$450?

No, we’ll come in tomorrow.” So we were hung-over as shit, and we had Kill the Precedent will play an to be there at noon the next day. He EP release show at Harlow’s was waiting for us with the mops, on Aug. 6 with Will Haven, and he’s like, “Here you go.” Of The Snobs and City of Vain. course he opened the bar, and we got Tickets are just $10 and can drunk and cleaned that place for four be purchased through Harlows. or five hours, and I can say it’s the com. For more information on KTP, like them why don’t you at cleanest it’s ever been [laughs]. It’s Facebook.com/killtheprecedent. the cleanest club in Sacramento.

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A Bridge to Your Glass

Rail Bridge Cellars has new vision, same loyalty Words Adam Saake • Photos Nicholas Wray

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s the large, roll-up door of the 6,000-square-foot warehouse off North 16th Street noisily opened, two Michaels met myself and Submerge photographer Nicholas Wray with wide smiles.

“Hello,” they said, apologizing for the door not being open all the way for us upon our arrival. “We’re a little temperature conscious around here,” they joked.

The two are Michael Gelber, owner of Rail Bridge Cellars, and Michael Chandler, one of only three level-two sommeliers living in the Sacramento area and brand developer for the winery. Behind them, French oak barrels filled with aging wine, a handful of them new French oak, were stacked four-high on racks that stretch to the ceiling. It’s a hell of lot cooler in the winery than it is outside, a steady 55 degrees, which is crucial for the aging and storing of the wine. In fact, everything about the wine takes place right there in the urban

winery, Sacramento‘s original urban winery, says Gelber. From the crush to the fermentation, aging to the blending, Rail Bridge Cellars is the real deal. The only thing that isn’t done there is the growing of the grapes, but that’s not an issue.

What makes an urban winery successful in creating great wines is immediate access to good fruit. A winery like Rail Bridge can source their grapes from nearby wine growing regions that are each just under an hour away. Plus, because Rail Bridge’s production is so low (they bottled about 1,400 cases this past April), the availability of higher quality grapes becomes easier, giving them access to just about whatever they want. For now, 90 percent of the grapes they buy come from the Napa Valley, the Oak Knoll AVA (American Viticultural Area) to be exact.

Three of their five reds are blends and that can be a delicate science where too much of one thing or not enough of another can make a world of difference. So being particular

about what grapes they select and what AVA they come from is crucial. A wine like their 2007 Lattice Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is blended with Cabernet, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, which all spent two and half years in French oak. Rail Bridge’s Cabernet Franc shines brilliantly in their blends, even though its percentage can be as low as 1 percent, such as in their Merlot. With the Lattice, it calms the big tannins of the Cabernet Sauvignon while putting a feather in the hat of Merlot.

The fruit may be sourced locally, but the blend and the palettes behind this wine and others like 2007 Right Bank, a blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, are certainly Bordeaux. That influence stems from the first winemaker and creator of the winery, Jon Affonso. Affonso’s winemaking experience brought him “to Chateau Angelus, a Premier Grand Cru winery in St. Emilion, France, where he learned traditional French winemaking techniques,” explained

Gelber. “He really understood Bordeaux wine and blending.” From there he worked in Sonoma and Napa at various wineries before he decided he wanted to start making his own wine and to start a winery that would live right here in Sacramento.

Affonso gathered some investors, and Sacramento’s first urban winery was born. From there, the story sounds a lot like that of so many other talented winemakers and amazing wines that have come and gone throughout the years.

All the components were there for success except the one thing that really keeps it all going: money.

The investors decided they were no longer going to support the venture and the hand was on the plug, ready to be pulled. Enter Gelber, Chandler and new winemaker Ron Runnebaum. “Hand off the plug!” they exclaimed with gusto. It wasn’t quite that dramatic, but you get the point.

Why save a sinking ship? Well it depends on what’s on the ship.

“The whole of it was worth more than the parts,” said Gelber on stepping in to take over Rail Bridge. “The truth is the wine, name and fact that it was Sacramento’s first urban winery were

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the reasons why it made sense to keep it going.”

With Gelber and Chandler breathing new life into the winery, the next step was to make it their own. Starting from scratch may have set them back a bit on re-launching the brand, but they didn’t have to deal with that.

“When we took it over, we had a ton of juice in here that was already harvested, was fermenting and barrel stored,” said Gelber.

Chandler, whom Gelber described as “the face and the nose of the winery,” was brought on to manage the brand. First thing he did was assess all that “juice” they had inherited as well as look at what Affonso had created before and how they could improve upon it. Affonso was making two wines: a Lattice (meritage) blend of Cabernet, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Malbec as well as a white—Sauvignon Blanc. Chandler didn’t like this one bit, and for good reason.

“The biggest issue was, you make a Sauvignon Blanc and Meritage, the two hardest wines to sell on a retail wine shelf and restaurant wine list in California, if not definitely our region. So why are you only making wines that are the two hardest things to sell?”

No sense in making a waste of good juice; all they needed was a little reinventing.

“The reputation for the wine was good, but needed more variety,” said Gelber.

Wine varietals in the United States need only contain 75 percent of the named variety in order to be called that. Fun fact and something to look out for when drinking wine, because your bottle might not have the pedigree you think it does. In Rail Bridge’s case, the French Bordeaux influence was retained (even with new winemaker Runnebaum, who interned in Burgundy) and the blends are what make the pedigree. In addition to the 2006 and 2007 Lattice and 2007 Merlot, there is also their Right Bank wine. With a blend of 61 percent Merlot and 39 percent Cabernet Franc, this wine has become a favorite among consumers. What’s interesting too is that not only are the wines of Bordeaux’s right bank consistent with this blend, but Right Bank happens to also be a reference to Sacramento, which lies on the right bank of the Sacramento River.

In addition to stretching out the blends and creating new wines, Chandler also added a Chardonnay called “Sienna,” which is named after Gelber’s daughter. Chandler wants to take Rail Bridge’s Chardonnay in a different direction, away from the big buttery wines that have been made popular by giants like Rombauer. He’s aiming for a brighter, more crisp and acidic Chardonnay but still with a considerable backbone. He aims to reinvent their Sauvignon Blanc program as well.

“People were getting away from Sauvignon Blanc because it was too lean and acidic,” said Chandler.

But he feels there is a return, and he’s hoping that will be good for Rail Bridge and the sales of their Sauvignon Blanc. So far, he’s off to a good start. Rail Bridge wines can be found at Ella, Biba, some of the Paragary’s locations as well as the wine department of Bel Air grocery stores. Chandler is also championing another interesting new addition to the retail wine world: wine kegs. Specially designed kegs with plastic liners that hold 15 bottles are on the Rail Bridge agenda. Magpie Catering is already on board and larger clients are in the wing. Move over Red Bull backpacks, because the keg can be strapped on, making filling and re-filling mobile. Be on the lookout for Rail Bridge opening up in a new space inside the historic Elk’s Lodge building located off J Street in downtown Sacramento. A VIP tasting room in the penthouse will be open for reservations as well as private access to club members.

The I Street bridge that is featured on the Rail Bridge Cellar label is significant for its iconic Sacramento imagery but also signifies the linking of Sacramento to the wine country. The bridge passes over the Sacramento River and connects travelers to Yolo County, Napa and Sonoma where wine is a religion. Gelber and Chandler have great pride for their city and a Q and A on their website states that, “We think a wine begins with a simple question ‘What For more information does Sacramento want to drink?’” about Rail Bridge Cellars, including their It sounds like a great start to list of wines, go to Rail Bridge’s new beginning.

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Naked Lounge Downtown Jazz Session w/ The Joe Mazzafero Quintet feat. Nahum Zdybel, 8:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 7 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Tin House Studio and Gallery The Thoughts, Jesse Jackson, Paula Frazer, 8 p.m.

8.02 Tuesday

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Mix Jazz in the Mix w/ Ava Lemert, Garrett Perkins, 6 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino Brandi Carlile, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center The Great Valley, Page 9, Taking Fox Hollow, Makes Us Human, Bernadette Conant, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub DJs Rigatony, Alazzawi, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 7 p.m.

Shine Open Mic Night, 7 p.m.

T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Alex Nelson, 5:30 p.m.; The Dippin’ Sauce, 9 p.m.

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8.03 Wednesday

Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Zoe, Diciembre Gris, 8 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 7 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Orca Team, Black Holes What?, Lips, Ritual Waste, 8 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Alyssa Cox, Sherman Baker, Izzy and the Kesstronics, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic w/ host Lare Crawley, 8:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub 101, One More Last Try, Rob 86, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Ana Popovich, 9 p.m.

Uncle Vitos (Davis) Boom Bip w/ The Flower Vato, 10 p.m.

8.04 Thursday

The Blue Lamp The Bradipos IV, Groovin High, 9 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Club Retro Recognize, Mountain Mover, Causa Mortis, 5:30 p.m.

The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

District 30 I Love House w/ DJ Tatiana Fontes, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Shaun Slaughter’s

Revolving Party, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Lyrics Born, Who Cares, 9 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Endoxi, March Into Paris, Set Theory, 8 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Medodora, True Margrit, Sonic Glow, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Garage Jazz Architects, Ava Mendoza, Chikading!, 8 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center The Anatomy Of Frank, Interpret, Octjado, 6:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Buck Ford, 9:30 p.m.

Press Club Favors (Album Release), Evan Bailey, The Happy Medium, The Master System, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 7 p.m.

Shenanigans Reggae Night, 10:30 p.m.

Sleep Train Amphitheatre Toby Keith, Eric Church, JT Hodges, 7 p.m.

Sol Collective Skratch Pad, 9 p.m.

Tin House Studio and Gallery Buck Love & The Humperheads, 7:30 p.m.

Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Harley White Jr. feat. Aaron King, 9 p.m.

8.05 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Dredg, Fair to Midland, Trophy Fire, Breva, 6:30 p.m.

Auburn Regional Park Northern California Blues Festival w/ Big Brother and the Holding Company, Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers, Todd Morgan and the Emblems, 5 p.m.

Blue Cue Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Tender Box, Early States, Color of Sound, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Draw from the Effect, Thea Skotia, Escalon, My Bloodshed Kills, 7 p.m.

Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ ESEF, Selector KDK, Ras Matthew, Juan Love, 10 p.m.

Center for the Arts Aaron Neville, 7 p.m.

Cesar Chavez Park Musical Charis, Be Brave Bold Robot, Adrian Bourgeois, San Kazakgascar, 5 p.m.

The Fire Escape Bar and Grill The Memphis Murder Men, Pendletons, Avenue Saints, Jetsinns, 8 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Matt Schofield, 8 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Rubber Biscuits Rockin Blues Revue, 7:30 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Gene Smith & GreenHouse, Mad Planet, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Richard March, Highway Robbers, Natural Drift, 9 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Billy Lane, 9 P.M. Powerhouse Pub The Mother Hips, 10 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Mike Furlong Trio, 5 p.m.; Audioboxx, 9:30 p.m.

Shenanigans Pointdexter, Simple Creation, Soundcheck (feat. Jean Hagan and James Cavern), 9 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen A B & The Sea, The Fling, Flowerss, 9 p.m.

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Maps & Atlases RX Bandits, Zechs Marquise, Facing New York Ace of Spades 6 p.m.

7.31 Musical Charis Be Brave Bold Robot, Adrian Bourgeois, San Kazakgascar Cesar Chavez Park 5 p.m.

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Auburn Regional Park Northern California Blues Festival w/ Kenny Neal, Carolyn Wonderland, Dennis Jones, Jeff Watson Band w/ Daniel Castro & Terry Hiatt, Bay Area Blues Society’s Caravan of All Stars, The Soulshakers, Population 5, 11:30 a.m.

Blue Cue Tragically White, 9 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Hypnotic IV, The Razorblades, Denver Pyle Driver, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Steel Savior (CD Release), For All Ive Done, Silence of the Grimm, Mortal Atrocity, Pythagora, 7 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Los Tigres del Norte, 8 p.m.

Club Retro City Of Kings, Carcerys Vale, Pledge The Silence, They Call it Mercy, Don’t Forget Today, Into The Desert, 6:30 p.m.

Distillery Crazy Ballhead, Trunk of Funk, Lumis, 10 p.m.

District 30 DJ Este, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear Sweaty w/ DJ Whores, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Kill The Precedent (CD Release), Will Haven, The Snobs, City of Vain, 9:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Rubber Biscuits Rockin Blues Revue, 7:30 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Jem & Scout, Kids On A Crime Spree, 8 p.m.

McClatchy Park Nagual, Mad Planet, 4:30 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino Aaron Lewis, 8 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Nate Weldon, Justin Farren, Truth of Mars, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Lipstick, 10 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti-V, DJ Peeti V, DJ Tryst 9 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center Blackhounds, Spooky Moon, 7 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Zeparella, 10 p.m.

Press Club Top 40 Dance w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Mike Furlong Trio, 5 p.m.; Audioboxx, 9:30 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Wild Ones, The Great Republic Of Rough & Ready, Lindsay Clark, 9 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Nothin’ Personal, 4 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Peter Frampton, 8 p.m.

Tin House Studio and Gallery Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald, Mikail Graham, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Walking Spanish, 9 p.m.

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Swabbies on the River Amanda Gray, 6 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Doobie Brothers, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; AC Myles, 9 p.m.

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Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Rubber Biscuits Rockin Blues Revue, 7:30 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino KC & The Sunshine Band, 9 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Groovin’ High, MQ Blues, 8:30 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center Voice of Addiction, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Pinkie Rideau, 3 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Tom Drinnon, 7 p.m.

Shine Danny Secretion, Andrew Harrison, Jefferson Deathstar, Rev Lee Peters, 8 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Set in Stone, 3 p.m.

Torch Club Aaron King & Friends, 4 p.m.; Lucky Witherspoon, 8 p.m.

8.08 monday

The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Mercy Sounds, 8 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays, 7:30 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Jazz Session w/ The Joe Mazzafero Quintet feat. Benny Carter, 8:30 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center Diwali, Mano Kane, 9 p.m.

Comedy Laughs Unlimited Steve White, Kul Black, July 28 - 31, Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m.

Comedy Open Mic Showcase, Aug. 2, 8 p.m.

Kermit Apio, Todd Johnson, Aug. 4 - 7, Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m.

Luna's Cafe Keith Lowell Jensen's Wednesday Night Comedy, Wednesday's, 8 p.m.

Po'Boyz Bar & Grill Comedy Open Mic, Monday's, 9 p.m.

Punchline Comedy Club Sam Bam's Comedy Jam, July 28, 8 p.m.

Dov Davidoff, July 29 - 31, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sunday, 8 p.m.

Dat Phan, Aug. 4 - 7, Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sunday, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Sportz Mayhem!, every Thursday, 9 p.m.

ComedySportz, every Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Spot Improv 1 Continuous, Harold Night, July 27 & Aug. 3, 7 p.m.

Improv 1 Continuous, Cage Match, July 28 & Aug. 4, 7 p.m.

Stand Up Shoot Out, July 29, 9 p.m.

In Your Facebook, Anti Cooperation League, Critical Hit, July 30, 8 p.m.

Open Mic Scramble, July 31 & Aug. 7, 7 p.m.

Anti Cooperation League w/ Christopher Michael Holley, Asylum, Aug. 6, 9 p.m.

Shenanigans Comedy Night, every Thursday, 9 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Comedy Open Mic, Monday's, 8 p.m.

Tommy T’s Open Mic, July 26, 8 p.m.

Hoody 2 Shoes and the Gang, Tristan Johnson, July 27, 8 p.m.

Too Funny For TV, July 28 - 31, Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

Misc.

Beatnik Studios Art Exhibit Opening: Kermit McCourt & Patrice Sims, July 29, 6 p.m.

Blue Cue Trivia Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Bows & Arrows Opening Reception for Prescription For A Healthy Art Scene, Aug. 5, 6 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Irish Pub Open Mic Variety Night, Mondays, 9 p.m.

Cal Expo California State Fair, now through July 31 California Museum Riding Concrete: Skateboarding in California curated by Z-Boy Nathan Pratt, now through March, 2012 Capitol Garage Trivia Night, Mondays, 9 p.m.

Crest Theatre Trash Film Orgy Presents: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, July 30, 11:15 p.m.; Werewolves On Wheels, Aug. 6, 11:15 p.m.

Red Carpet Premier of Left & Loose in the Lot, Aug. 5, 6:30 p.m.

Golden Bear Random Knowledge Trivia Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

The Guild Theatre Movies On A Big Screen: Dreams That Money Can Buy, July 31, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Freak Nasty Erotic Poetry, July 27, 10 p.m. j27 Art Gallery Featured Artist: David Arnold, through July 31 K Street Venues Summer Block Party on K St., every Wednesday Luna’s Cafe Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Documentary Night: Inside Job, July 26, 5 p.m. & 8 p.m.; God Grew Tired of Us, Aug. 2, 5 p.m. & 8 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Hair Wars 2011, every Thursday through Sept. 1, 10 p.m.

Power Balance Pavilion Sacramento Swap Meet, Aug. 7 Sacramento Convention Center Battle of the Titans 1: MMA Cage Fighters Joshua Emmett, James Stafford, Armando Sabala Jr, Mike Arvisias, Karl Stallcop, Gage Melton, Nathan Ryhal and more, July 30, 4:30 p.m.

Shine Poetry with Legs, every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 7 p.m.

Shenanigans Watch it Live: UFC 133 Evans vs. Davis, Aug. 6, 6 p.m.

Spanglish Arte Art Exhibit: Perdition feat. prison art by Salvador Aceves, now through Aug. 5 Workshop: Paper Mache Masks Part 1, Aug. 6, 10 a.m.

Swabbies on the River Red Bull Board Meeting: Free Wakeboard Demos, Aug. 6, 9 a.m.

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The restless river is hosting many visitors this summer, as its possibilities for exploration are abundant! Only a hop, skip and jump away from Midtown, locals are finding themselves escaping to the river to enjoy swimming, rope swinging, kayaking, fishing and plain ol’ relaxing.

This summer, gear up in your most comfortable adventure garb and spend at least one day enjoying the gifts of our lovely river.

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Element of Soul

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The Shenanigans of Rock ‘n’ Roll!

Element of Soul, A Single Second, Sinister Scene, Adam Roth, Verbatim

Friday, July 18, 2011 • Shenanigans, Sacramento

Words & Photos Mike Saechao Walking into Shenanigans, my eyes fixated on the plasma screen-filled, pool table-planted sports bar. I scoped around to prep myself for a night of rock ‘n’ roll and some serious head banging.

Starting the night off was Adam Roth of Green Audio. Though the rest of Green Audio was not present, Roth had a guest drummer and a backup vocalist to fill in the void. I expected a hardcore emo set, but was proven wrong as Roth sat down beside his keyboards and let out a melody. “This song is about being drunk and medicated,” he explained as he sang, "There’s something inside of me/That’s laughing with anxiety"—a very depressing yet bittersweet lullaby about self-loathing. Roth did a cover of Green Day’s “Basket Case,” which sounded like it was sung by Billie Joe Armstrong on the verge of suicide. I’ll admit it was a lot better than the original. In one of Roth’s final songs, he sang, "I believe I can be anything with you in my heart/ Just give me one more day," a ballad that left the crowd feeling Roth’s agony. The sound of Roth’s downtrodden voice and acoustic elements reminded me of a dramatic post-breakup story, where acoustic meets experimental.

There was one surprise of the night: A tribal fusion belly dancing group called Verbatim from Hot Pot Studios performed dance breaks in between set changes to keep the crowd going.

Throughout the night, this Midtown-based dance crew continued to keep the crowd cheering for not just rock ‘n’ roll but art as well.

A few minutes later, Sinister Scene from Sparks, Nev., was up. I’ve never heard of this band, but I was intrigued by their matching socks and their chemistry. A signal from the vocalist Seven and the band threw down and rocked the stage. The energy and aggression of this hardcore band sparked the crowd, and Seven growled and screamed into the mic with no forgiveness. With almost no transitions or breaks in between songs, Sinister Scene played spot-on hardcore rock music, song after song, scream after scream. By the end of their set, Seven had established what seemed like a cult SubmergeMag.com

following of a new breed of head bangers.

Between the dance breaks of Verbatim and a small breather, A Single Second took the stage, and almost immediately started off with an anthem of their own followed by psychedelic drum beats and melancholy lyrics.

What really ignited the crowd’s spirits was “Politicians of U.S.A.,” a song about the growing unemployment, a verbal backhand slap to the mistakes of modern politics. It was a mixture of heavy metal and punk rock, revolting against the government and failed relationships. A Single Second continued their set with rageinspiring anthems. Pretty awesome rock ‘n’ roll, I’d say.

For the last act, the lineup of what seemed to be purely just heartache and hardcore aggression came to an abrupt end as Element of Soul took the stage. I was not ready for the barrage of couples flying in and slow dancing to the melodies that came out of this band. It reminded me of a Woodstock documentary, though I would say I was impressed with the crowd they attracted. It was a very smooth transition from hard rock to slow rock, ending the night just right. This jazzy, hip, acoustic extravaganza was not exactly my cup of tea, but I managed to sneak in between the crowd and snap a few shots of the band before bumping into couples who were getting down. As the final hour approached, more couples took the pit and drunken anthems and lullabies became songs of the night.

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Do You Believe in Magic?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Warner Bros.

Words James Barone The end has come. It’s a bittersweet day for Harry Potter fans across the world as the young wizard has raised his wand against his foe Voldemort for the final time. Truth be told, the most loyal fans, the ones who have read the successful series of books, have already known the fate of Potter and his close friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley for years. The final novel of J.K. Rowling’s epic teenage fantasy series was released in summer 2007. However, now that the film adaptations have come to a close, it seems like the world now must move on from the trials and tribulations of their favorite wizard and find a new hero. It’s always sad to say goodbye, but at least Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a fond farewell.

It’s hard to believe that the first Harry Potter film came out 10 years ago, just two months after 9/11. Maybe it was because the country was eager to escape reality that America—even the many of us who hadn’t read the books—so eagerly grasped on to the adventures of three kids attending magic school; but whatever the reason, it’s hard to deny these characters’ impact on pop culture.

As film franchises go, not only was the Harry Potter series wildly profitable, but it also set a high water mark in scope. There are franchises that have spawned more films—the 007 series comes to mind—but for the most part they’re episodic. Here, we see a character grow practically from birth to manhood. Trilogies are hard enough to pull off (just ask the Wachowski Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola), but with the Harry Potter series, filmmakers asked audiences to bear with them for eight installments, and had them eating out of their hands every time. Even though the people behind the Harry Potter series were working from source material with a built-in fan base, it’s still a remarkable feat.

But is Deathly Hallows: Part 2 any good? It is, and perhaps one of the best films in the series (I’d rank Half-Blood Prince as my No. 1). The story picks up exactly where Deathly Hallows: Part 1 left off. Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has gained possession of the most powerful magic wand in the world (the Elder Wand) and Dementors have Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, now with the treacherous Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) at the helm, circled. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is public enemy No. 1, and SubmergeMag.com

he and his closest friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger (Rupert Grint and Emma Watson respectively) must regroup in a last-ditch effort to end Voldemort’s reign of terror once and for all.

Whereas Deathly Hallows: Part 1 was more psychological and rife with dark tension, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is all crescendo— an explosion of supernatural action, epic set pieces and dramatic showdowns. Cinematically speaking, it’s a breathtaking film full of beautifully fantastic and frightening imagery. Its storytelling is as magical as its subject matter. David Yates, who directed the previous three installments of the series, is once again back at the helm. As the series has turned darker, his style seems to play up the gravity of the situation. Sweeping panoramas are intercut with quick close-ups, which takes the action from macrocosm to microcosm. Even as Hogwarts is severely damaged in a battle between the good wizards and the forces of Voldemort, the conflict is shown mainly through more of a personal lens as we see the looks on the faces of those affected by the violence. Later, as Harry ventures into a dark wood to face down his most feared foe, we’re presented with a stark and moody image, free from any pomp.

High fantasy at its best: dragons and witches, wizards and goblins. You were either on board way before this film came out or you weren’t. But for those who were caught up in this series, these films will be surely missed. Without the Harry Potter series to look forward to, cinemas worldwide will just have to wait with fingers crossed until the next generation-defining franchise comes along. Don’t hold your breath…

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On July 21, the Space Shuttle Atlantis landed safely in Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., effectively ending NASA’s shuttle program. The shuttle endeavored on 135 missions and flew 125,935,769 miles. It was NASA’s little engine that could, its intergalactic workhorse. But it will fly no more. Some people are sad to see it go, while others are saying good riddance. Some people even think that the whole project was a big waste of time and money. It was. But, come on, the thing flew in SPACE. The other night, I heard George Noory of Coast to Coast question what the shuttle had actually done. I guess Noory is luckier than most of us, because he gets to venture into outer space on a nightly basis, buoyed by the hair-brained tales of the yahoos who call him.

But I found his criticism a little harsh. Harsher still was an article written by Gerard DeGroot for Telegraph.co.uk, who likened the shuttle to “the handsome, carefree guy who can’t hold down a job, but manages to camouflage his inadequacies with style and bravado.” Burn!

It should be noted that DeGroot is the author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest, a rather acerbic look at the history of NASA. In his article for the Telegraph, “The Shuttle: A Journey Through Space and Time That Took Us Nowhere,” DeGroot cites that by 1998, a manned shuttle launch cost upwards of $547 billion, which was roughly $180 billion over budget. The program also fell well short of its planned 779 missions, and continual cuts to NASA’s funding had resulted in risky missions.

As a result, two shuttles had been lost, and 14 crewmembers have lost their lives.

DeGroot makes some compelling arguments in his article, but I think the assumption that the shuttle project took us (and by “us” I mean all of us, like humans or whatever) nowhere is kind of ridiculous. For 30 years, the shuttle took people into space. It’s not a big deal like it used to be, sure. I wasn’t born yet, but I’ll bet that when U.S. astronauts first took a step on the moon, people’s minds were blown. We haven’t been to the moon all that much since, but I think that’s irrelevant.

We made it off the planet—numerous times even—and we even developed a craft that we

could reuse over and over to take us there. I think that should count for something.

Space is big, bro. Like, for serious. Just to get to Mars and back would take years—two and a half according to some estimates—and that’s just to the next furthest planet away from the sun. I think it’s probably easy to criticize the work NASA has done from the outside, but I’m guessing there’s also a reason why we use the idiom, “It’s not rocket science,” when describing more menial tasks.

The shuttle wasn’t completely useless, though. It did launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. Upon its inception, the Hubble too was often maligned for its excessive cost and somewhat elongated toiletbowl shape, but over the years, it has become an invaluable instrument in capturing images of deep space—places our species will most likely never tread—and providing clues as to how the universe was formed. The shuttle was also instrumental in the ongoing construction of the International Space Station, which, if nothing else, has provided the world’s nerds with a really nifty tree house in the cosmos where they can play chess or whatever. I bet they even have Netflix up there.

The closing of the shuttle program has a very real terrestrial effect as well. Some 9,000 space workers are expected to lose their jobs.

So, if you thought you were having a difficult enough time trying to find work before, good luck competing against people who have “Worked for NASA” on their resumes.

It’s expected that NASA will now focus on commercial space travel with the shuttle program done. According to Businessweek. com, “With the shuttle’s return, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will leave the business of low-Earth orbital flight and use U.S. companies to develop spacecraft for taking people and cargo on short trips.

It has partnerships with Boeing Co., Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and others to build such vehicles while it focuses on missions beyond the moon.”

So maybe NASA’s just down, not out. I’m kind of hoping they’ll one day make me eat my words about traveling to places I never thought our species would tread.

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