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When Submerge contributor Josh Fernandez sent us an email on April 13 that said, “Hey, don’t know if you’ve seen anything about Task1ne’s extraordinary plagiarism, but it’s something to behold. He’s bitten almost everything he’s ever recorded…” we had no idea what he was talking about, but when we got back to our desks and logged onto Facebook and Twitter, oh my, what a shit storm we witnessed! Task1ne (real name: Corey Pruitt) is a Sacramento-based rapper who for years has been hailed as one of the best in the local scene had been called out on social media for stealing lyrics from multiple MCs and calling them his own. In hip-hop, this is a big no-no! “Would you guys be down to do a hardcore Q&A with him to see what’s what? It might be pretty fascinating,” Fernandez asked us. Not only did Josh’s emails go unanswered, Task1ne also shut down his Facebook and Twitter pages, further stirring the pot online. Pretty much everyone involved in the local hip-hop scene and many others from all over the country (a couple of the rappers he stole from are based on the East Coast) took to their social media pages to bash Task1ne. In some cases, it got pretty ugly. “It’s hard to watch your Heroes die…but in hip-hop you do NOT BITE,” tweeted local rapper Mahtie Bush. He went on to post, “Once you know someone violated I don’t wanna hear the ‘but he’s a good guy’ no he’s not he sold those verses for money… that’s a thief.” Days later, just as all of the (mostly negative) chatter online had reached a fever pitch, Task1ne posted a video response. In the video he seems distraught and states that he is, “Guilty of overworking myself and cutting corners” and that by doing so he “broke hip-hop’s number one rule with these tracks and these features, and I’m sorry.” He pointed out that he struggles with depression and felt that he never fit in anywhere until he started finding love in hip-hop. He went on to say, “What really keeps me up at night, what really bothers me the most is that my choices, what I’ve done, has brought out the worst in all of you, and I’m sorry for that… I will always be an artist, that’s not gonna change. I will always be Task1ne. If you no longer want to support me, I completely understand, I get you. But if you are kind enough to still support me, I will always be thankful for the grace you have shown me and I will never disappoint you again… I hope we can all learn from this and come out as better people, because I know I have.” So now the question remains, can Task1ne bounce back from this? Will he continue to have a career in music? It seems as though he is going to try, so I guess we’ll all have to wait and see.
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A native of the Sacramento area but now based in New York, experimental producer Lee Bannon is a bit of a shapeshifter, finding his place in a number of scenes not normally connected. He first came up in the world of hip-hop, independently releasing beat tapes and collaborating with some of the biggest names in the biz like Souls of Mischief and Hieroglyphics. He’s also produced and contributed as a DJ for Joey Bada$$ and the Pro Era crew. Eventually Bannon turned his focus to a more untraditional, anti-fad sound, one rich with drum ‘n’ bass and jungle influences, and ultimately released his debut LP Alternate/Endings in January 2014 on Ninja Tune. The album received praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Guardian and many other media outlets. Now, fresh off a country-wide tour with hardcore band Trash Talk and experimental hip-hop group Ratking, Bannon has announced that his second full-length Pattern of Excel will be released on July 10, also on Ninja Tune. “Pattern of Excel again signals a movement away from the ground he’s already covered and toward his own vision of the leftfield future,” the official press release stated. “Gone are the rapid fire breaks and growling B-lines of his debut, replaced instead by a considered exploration of ambient soundscapes and drone influences.” The first track to be shared of the album, “Artificial Stasis,” is available online to stream now at Soundcloud. com/bannon. You can pre-order the 15-track album now at Ninjatune.net. Do you remember your first time attending Lipstick? I barely do. That’s because not only was I nice and drunk, but it was also a very, very long time ago. May 2015 marks 15 years since local DJs Shaun Slaughter and Roger Carpio first started throwing their (then weekly) indie rock dance parties at Press Club known as Lipstick, which according to Slaughter is “bananas crazy” to think about. Now a monthly event held at Old Ironsides, Lipstick is still as fun as it has ever been, and on Saturday, May 2 you’re invited to celebrate a decade-and-a-half of dancing and debauchery as Slaughter and Carpio welcome special musical guests Mr. Erik James (of local band The Bell Boys) featuring Sacramento sound engineer extraordinaire Ira Skinner (of the band Paper Pistols) on drums! This will be the duo’s debut performance, and we’ve been told to expect “a mix between Chvrches, Haim and Prince,” which sounds pretty fucking awesome. In addition to the live band, like always, Slaughter and Carpio will be spinning the best in indie rock, indie dance, indie pop, britpop and other great jams. There will also be limited edition Lipstick posters by local artists, ticket giveaways for rad upcoming indie shows, drink specials, a new lighting rig and much more awesomeness; plus, they’ll be filming the whole thing! You’re encouraged to get there early, doors open at 9 p.m., it’s 21-and-over and the cover is just $8 (no free entry before 10 p.m. this month). Happy birthday, Lipstick! You’re almost old enough to drive (uh oh!).
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The Optimistic Pessimist I woke up with a purple tongue, a bump on my head, sore legs and a mean hangover. I yacked when I first tried to brush my teeth that Sunday morning. My head was pounding, and I was moving slow. We barely made our checkout time at the hotel. Thank God for that pizza that mysteriously appeared in our room shortly after we checked in the night before or things could have been much worse. Despite how rough it sounds, it was all worth it in the end. I had an excellent time in Murphys, California, and I’m sure you will too! Nestled about an hour and 40 minutes southeast of Sacramento, along Highway 4, Murphys is a pretty cool place to spend a weekend with your hubby and/or friends. The drive flies by once you exit the shit show more commonly referred to as Highway 99. After that, it’s farms, fields, small towns and vineyards for the rest of the drive to Murphys, so enjoy the sights. Just don’t blink when you get there; you might miss it! Murphys is not a vast metropolis. We are basically talking about a
mile-long street with a couple of little joints on the side. That may sound small and uninviting, but I assure you, that space is packed with cool shit to do and equally cool people to help you find your way. Murphys isn’t your average, everyday place. You can go spelunking there! For those J-cats out there who aren’t hip to the game, spelunking refers to the exploration of caves. Mercer Caverns are located in Murphys and may be the only thing I confidently remember from my time in that fine town for reasons that will be made clear later. Fortunately for me, the cave was spectacular and totally worth remembering. The 45 minute tour takes you 16 stories down into the Earth and back up. This bad boy is chock full of stalactites and stalagmites, along with a few other bizarro geographic formations that defy description by a rock rookie like me. A word to the wise, though, the metal stairway can be narrow, steep and slippery at times, so don’t be like the idiots in our group and bring children under 5 who can’t
A Head Smashingly Good Time manage the stairs or resist the urge to rub their booger laden hands on everything. Tell your kids the cave is full of monsters and take them to the gift shop instead. The cave tour (or wrangling your children) will surely help you work up an appetite, and Murphys has a surprising variety of food to satisfy your hunger pangs. We saw several promising spots on Main Street for lunch, but decided to go with Rob’s Place toward the end of the strip. My girlfriend and I started our meal by splitting a bacon, cheddar, apple turnover appetizer and immediately wished we had ordered 10 more. That was followed by a turkey sandwich for me and chicken salad sandwich for my lady, which were both promptly stuffed into our respective bellies. With our spelunking fantasies fulfilled and our stomachs too fat to go back again anyway, it was time to head out for what we actually came to Murphys to do: wine tasting! That’s right, Murphys isn’t just about pretty rocks and delicious, savory, sweet pastries. This short stretch of a town is also jam packed with enough
Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com wine tasting rooms to please even the most discerning palate. The town even does you a favor by putting a large number of tasting rooms close together on Main Street for you to destroy your brain with for about $5 a flight. And we did! Several of the tasting rooms we visited sported gold, silver and bronze medal wines awarded to them at the State Fair and by the Chronicle. If the number of bottles of wine we ended up buying is any indication, I’d say we agree with that assessment. We drank enough wine that Saturday for me to crash face-first into the headboard of our hotel room bed later that night, causing the aforementioned purple-tongued, bumpyheaded, Sunday hangover hell that ensued the next day. That is one part of this trip I would not recommend you do. But we shouldn’t hold that against the fine city of Murphys. They merely did what I asked of them and sent me on my merry way. Be smarter than me. Drink more water and eat something between tasting rooms 4 and 5 and Murphys, California, might just be your new favorite weekend getaway!
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Got a sweet tooth? Satisfy the craving and then some during the first-ever Old Sacramento Chocolate Week, running May 4 to 10 at various shops and restaurants. It all kicks off with “Choc-la-trivia” at Fat’s City Bar and Cafe (1001 Front Street) on Monday, May 4 with chocolate themed trivia, Godiva Chocolate Martinis and mud pie drizzled with, you guessed it, chocolate sauce! Craft brew lovers won’t want to miss the Beer and Chocolate Pairings at Ten22 (1022 2nd Street) on Wednesday, May 6, where $10 gets you four beer tastings paired with house-made chocolate specialties, one example being High Water Brewing’s Campfire Stout and cocoa bread pudding with caramel and dark chocolate. On Friday, May 8 take a stroll for the self-guided 8 stop Choc-la-tour including stops at Chefs’ Olive Mix, Danny’s Mini Donuts, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Sacramento Sweets Co. and others. For Old Sacramento Chocolate Week details, vist Oldsacramento. com/special-events/chocolate or call (916) 442-8575.
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Laverne Cox has quite a few amazing accomplishments under her belt. She’s the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream television show (Orange Is the New Black), the first transgender woman to land on the cover of TIME magazine and the first transgender performer to receive an Emmy nomination. She was even named as one of Glamour’s 2014 Women of the Year and also received a Community Leader Award from the LGBT Center of New York City. Above and beyond her critically acclaimed work as an actress, Cox is also a producer, a writer and public speaker who is passionate about taking her empowering message of “moving beyond gender expectations” to “live more authentically” all around the country. On Tuesday, May 19, Cox will be speaking at Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in Davis starting at 8 p.m. A very select amount of tickets are left, available at Mondaviarts.org or by calling (530) 754-2787. Learn more about Cox at Lavernecox.com. SubmergeMag.com
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Top-notch Live Tunes at The Center for the Arts’ Free 15th Birthday Bash! • May 14 The building located at 314 West Main Street in the quaint historic downtown area of Grass Valley has been many things since it was built way back in 1947. Originally a car dealership, it eventually became a cosmetology school, then a gymnasium and even a video production facility. But 1999 was when things got really interesting when a group of local artists and supporters banded together to start the Northern California Center for the Arts. After lengthy renovations, the group had accomplished its goal of creating a haven for artists to perform, learn and collaborate. Now, 15 years later, The Center for the Arts is thriving as one of the most prolific venues in Northern California, hosting hundreds of events every year ranging from concerts featuring world class touring musicians, to performance art, to comedy shows, to literary readings, to educational classes, to youth programs, to anything else fun and creative. They even promote events at other larger venues like the Nevada County Fairgrounds (mark your calendars for California WorldFest July 16 to 19!) as well as the 1000-seat Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Grass Valley. To celebrate their 15th year, The Center for the Arts invites you to a free open house birthday bash with cake and all on Thursday, May 14 from 6 to 10 p.m. at 314 West Main Street. Expect top-notch live tunes from performers like Barry Friedman, Dakota Sid and Travers Clifford, String Sisters, The Movement Alliance and many others, as well children’s performances, face painting and food trucks. Happy 15, CFA! For more information, visit Thecenterforthearts.org, Facebook.com/thecenterforthearts, or call (530) 274-8384.
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Patti Warashina balances the light and dark aspects of life as she works with clay Words Justin Cox
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atti Warashina gets out of bed around 6:30 every morning and drinks about four cups of coffee while she combs through copies of the Seattle Times and the Wall Street Journal, both of them cover to cover. Warashina—a celebrated ceramic artist with 50 years of work under her belt—told me about this ritual after I asked her a question about her creative process. I initially thought she might have misheard me, but slowly she came around to her point. “I do a lot of reading about what’s happening in the world,” she said. “That’s where a lot of my work comes from.” Inspiration arrives long before her fingers hit the clay. The early morning reading sets her wheels in motion. She drinks in the day’s news just as she drinks in her coffee. The gravity and meaning stick with her; you can hear it in her voice when she speaks.
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“Things are so horrifying out there right now,” she said. “My work is changing because of it. Humans do terrible things.” She threads observations like this one into an otherwise completely lighthearted conversation. Truthfully, the woman is a delight. She has the springy voice of a woman no older than 40, casually skipping from one topic to the next with little regard for transition. You’d never know she’s 75 years old. Warashina’s family is of Japanese descent, but she was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, which she described as a cultural vacuum during her childhood. Her parents programmed her and her two older siblings to pursue careers in science, so she marched in that direction without question until midway through college. “In high school I didn’t take any art classes,” she said. “Then I had an elective
as a freshman at University of Washington and I thought, wow, this is cool.” But when that class ended, she snapped back into her science routine and clipped along the path to graduation. It wasn’t until after she knocked out all of her required science courses that she enrolled in a ceramics class. Little did she know she would be rerouting her entire future.
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“Clay is addictive,” she said. “If you discover it, you won’t want to leave it.” Her passion was immediate and powerful, so much so that her college advisor could feel it. “Pat, why don’t you just admit it?” And just like that, Warashina became an art major. After some time working in the Midwest after graduation, she returned to her alma mater in Seattle, where she went on to teach for the next 30 years. (Her mother supported her decision to become an artist, by the way. “Love what you do, because you’ll do it well,” she told her daughter.) “I loved teaching,” she said. “The students force you to think. They know what’s happening
out there, so you have to stay on your toes.” She retired from University of Washington 18 years ago but continues to create her ceramic art in a space not far from where she drinks her morning coffee. “A lot of stuff is sitting in the back of your head,” she said. “When you go into the studio, the stuff comes out.” When I asked Warashina what in particular has been weighing on her mind lately, she didn’t commit to specifics. I hesitatingly asked her if she was talking about ISIS. She fleetingly said yes, but made clear that she was speaking about far more than that. But again, she didn’t elaborate on specifics. Her point was clear:
the brutality is all over the place, whether it be terror on the other side of the world or other brands of brutality closer to home. “We’re getting a lot more thrown at us everyday because of the Internet,” she said. “It just seems like the descriptions are much more brutal. Human nature can be so ugly. And yet, nature made us so that we can laugh.” That’s a good thing, because Warashina has a highquality laugh. It’s endearing. “There is both comedy and tragedy,” she said. “You need a balance in your life.” She was recently asked to create a cat figure for a collection in Southern California.
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“Things are so horrifying out there right now. My work is changing because of it. Humans do terrible things.” – Patti Warashina “The first cat was for the museum,” she said. “And now I’m off on this cat thing. I made a fat cat. Then a skinny cat. Now it’s drawing me into other animals like birds. I’m just kind of exploring.” Warashina speaks playfully about these kinds of projects, but even her more serious stuff can take on this lighthearted, casual tone. She strips the gravity out of even the heaviest of topics. I assume that’s why she didn’t want to get into the nuts and bolts of the day’s ugly headlines. “I have a tendency, when I want to describe something horrible, to twist it so you don’t know what I’m thinking,” she said. “I try to make it palatable.” Early in Warashina’s career, she wanted to know exactly how the human body flexed and moved. Muscles and bones were pronounced. Culture and history was front and center. More recently, however, she’s been working to strip all of that away. “I’m trying to get rid of the identity,” she said. “I’m not even sure why I want to do that, but from the time I started working with figure I was always trying to simplify and get down to the essence.” In much of her recent work, the figures are not clothed in
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All of which is to say, an audience will be in for a treat when she speaks in Davis next week. “Patti Warashina is probably one of the most important figurative sculptors in the United States,” said John Natsoulas, owner of Natsoulas Gallery in Davis. Natsoulas Gallery will host the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art. Warashina, a speaker at the conference, will share stories and pieces from her 50-year career. “The Davis area had such a huge influence on the funk movement,” said Warashina, specifically naming Bob Arneson, the former UC Davis professor credited with starting the ceramic funk art movement. “Natsoulas was right at the center of that stuff.” Warashina attended the conference once in the past, back in the ‘70s. She’s looking forward to coming back again.
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Vampire Penguin emerges as local shaved ice king Words Niki Kangas • photos evan e. duran
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do things in some cases. Shaved ice is one of them, and usually it’s done the wrong way. Osaka Ya, Sacramento shaved ice veterans, get the picture and have a line backed up 10 th Street all summer. Enter Vampire Penguin, another ice master. But it’s differentiated from Osaka Ya, in that rather than wait in line and take a snow cone to-go, you can sit in an airconditioned, cutesy establishment while you enjoy your artistically crafted “shaved snow,” which has all the frills and flavor of an ice cream sundae. Vampire Penguin first opened its doors on Stockton Boulevard in South Sacramento on Halloween 2013. It quickly garnered copious popularity and needed to spread its flightless wings further to feed the need Sacramento had expressed
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for VP’s addicting and vegan-friendly shaved snow (they also carry a smattering of other little treats such as macarons). So in January 2015, locations opened in Davis on G Street and in downtown Sacramento on K Street. Shortly thereafter, the Elk Grove location opened in midFebruary. Another location is slated to open in Berkeley soon. Submerge photographer Evan Duran and I hit up Vampire Penguin’s downtown location on our way to the first pool day of our unofficial summertime, the temperature having exceeded 80 degrees. It was a perfect day to sample the snow. We poked around the lengthy counter area to see all the goods, scoped the menu and decided on four different items to share. The Twix was a mound of chocolate shaved snow, topped with graham crackers, caramel sauce and chocolate sauce. Mexican Candy was an all-theflavors mouth party of mango shaved snow, piled with fresh watermelons, rich caramel
sauce and a salty chili spice mix. Cookies and cream shaved snow, crushed graham crackers, Oreos, marshmallows, chocolate syrup comprised the S’moreos dish. Subtly sweet and bitter at once, the Snow Tiger was made with Thai tea and milk tea shaved snow, paired with oreo crumbles and a condensed milk sauce. The snow itself is unlike any shaved ice I’ve ever tried. It’s closer to sorbet, sherbet or ice cream in texture. Even my 9-year-old son, an ice cream connoisseur, said it tasted just like ice cream. To me it’s the missing link between shaved ice and sorbet—fluffy yet dense, and very much like eating newly fallen snow. Paolo San Luis, who co-founded Vampire Penguin with his brother Leo, weighed in on what Vampire Penguin is all about, what it’s been like to see skyrocketing growth of the company and where the Vampire Penguin is headed for its next act.
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How do you make the shaved ice? Its texture is unlike any shaved ice I’ve had before— almost like ice cream! Proper technique and execution, and lots of trial and error!
Where does the name Vampire Penguin come from? I always think of our shaved snow as a hybrid between ice cream and shaved ice… So we thought since we were in the shaved snow business, penguin will be a good name because penguins live in snow. But since our shaved ice is not really “shaved ice,” we thought it would be funny to make the penguin a vampire, making the idea of a penguin cute, but not cute (because vampires are also badass), just like our shaved ice is shaved ice, but not really.
How do you foresee Vampire Penguin growing in the future? Expanding the menu, more locations, etc.? I definitely want to keep growing, covering all of Sacramento before the end of the year. Our Berkeley location is opening in about a month and half, and we are looking to cover the Bay Area as well. Menu-wise we have new flavors coming out around summer, like black sugar, lychee and mocha. I also want to expand on the desserts side of the business, branding popular baked goods and putting our own twist on them. How would you describe the experience you want your customers to have? In a romantic sense, I want our customers to be intrigued by the whole idea of Vampire Penguin, to create their own associations and to identify with Vampire Penguin. In the end, I want the customers to feel welcome.
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What are some of the challenges you’ve faced as a company so far, if any? The primary challenge we continue to face is being able to sustain our growth, but I think we all face that challenge in one form or another. What has it been like to enjoy such rapid growth for the business? It’s definitely interesting—I am nervous, scared, anxious, and paranoid at the same time as calm, collected, excited, and having fun. I am also very grateful, but always impatient. This is my first business, and we didn’t think our first store would be received so well. We would have lines out the door, and it was challenging to keep up with the demand. This propelled us to focus on building a strong team and to create systems and adjustments with the goal of being able to provide the highest quality of service. Every day is a learning experience, and we do have ambitions of growing bigger in the next couple of years.
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The Mexican Candy is my favorite. What was the inspiration for such an awesome and unconventional mix of flavors? Love Mangonadas! We thought it would be cool to deconstruct it and translate it to shaved snow.
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From a Big Fish to the Big Top Rasar’s break from Sacramento gave him plenty to write home about Words andrew bell • photo Sonia Seelinger
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hen you’ve spent years as an artist getting the local media and venue owners to support you and you’ve built up a solid fan base that supports your music, what reason would you have to leave? This was the question staring Rasar (formerly Random Abiladeze) in the face almost a year and a half ago. On the other end of the phone was legendary beatbox innovator, and close personal friend, Butterscotch with an invite to Sin City that he couldn’t refuse. When Rasar left for Las Vegas in December 2013, his path was unclear to a lot of his fans. It turns out this was because it was still a little unclear to himself. Trusting that path would lead him from being an usher to the ringleader of a renowned Las Vegas side show stage complete with aerialists, stunts and circus acts. "It's a long, crazy story of late nights, a $40 million budget, celebrities, a woman who shot an arrow with her feet and a man who could fit himself through two tennis rackets while dropping life-changing philosophy," Rasar says of his time as part of the Vegas Nocturne show at The Cosmopolitan hotel and casino's Rose. Rabbit. Lie. supper club. After a stop at SXSW, and on the heels of his recent release of “Viral Video” on Youtube, Rasar is returning to a Sacramento stage for the first time in over a year May 9 at Harlow’s for Joseph in the Well’s release party. Before that, you can check him out in Davis on April 30 at Sophia's Thai Kitchen. One can only imagine how Rasar’s already electric stage show has grown since finding residency on the Las Vegas Strip. Offstage, Rasar is reserved and contemplative, more likely to talk about the destruction of Alexandria’s libraries than the latest club banger (although he IS the one who put me on to Lil’ B. Thank you, Based God). Yet in the time since we last spoke, he has become the centerpiece of a modern vaudevillian circus side show. I caught up with Rasar to talk about his new band The Lique, the current cultural climate for hip-hop artists with a positive message, how Sacramento prepared him for Sin City … and of course, to get some gambling advice.
How do you think Sacramento prepared you for taking on Sin City? I’ve always said that Sacramento is a great place to hone your craft and move on, so it definitely prepared me for bringing the goods. I’m getting more into the local scene of Vegas, but I still say that Sacramento has a much more cohesive, growing scene with more talent per capita. There are tons of talented people in Vegas, but there’s just not nearly as strong of a series of movements among locals right now. I’ve been more focused on traveling the world than just being a local all over again, though. On that note, Sacramento did not prepare me for the amount of opportunities that truly exist across the world. The downside of coming up in Sacramento is that you can get either too comfortable or jaded to realize it’s time to move. It was hard to leave because I had so many good things going there, why would I leave? Getting out of your comfort zone is essential to success. When you step your game up, you find yourself having to summarize over a decade of work into a 10-second elevator pitch. No one cares much about what I did in my hometown two to 10 years ago. It’s all about what you’re doing now and what have you done that’s nationally or internationally recognized. I don’t like this part of the business, but it’s true. How has Vegas influenced you as a performer? Vegas influenced me to step up my showmanship. Everyone on the strip is awesome at what they do. You really have no choice but to set yourself apart. I actually stood out with a more refined approach than the loud insanity that everyone expects from all the bright lights, but I know to get the crowd going.
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What’s the next move for Rasar? I’m on my Cali Is Home Tour April 29 through May 16. I’m doing at least 13 shows in 17 days. No sweat. Joseph in the Well’s new album features me on “Happy Song,” which we’re soon shooting a video for. I have two duo albums produced entirely, yet separately by two Sacramento-area producers. Tesla Carver with Medl4 is an album I wrote last year and features Poor of Tribe of Levi. I just need to record. The other album is the long-awaited album with Styles 1001 under the group name Mellow Nine. That album is called Divine Science. Nine songs never took so long. It will be well worth the wait. That album will feature Sean LaMarr of DLRN, Poor, Annie Jay and possibly another feature. I just want to tour the world. I’m tired of staying anywhere too long. I need to be on the road. You’ve always had a socially conscious message. Do you feel it is getting easier or harder to promote positivity in the current industry climate? Speaking of Mellow Nine and our album Divine Science. Now that Kendrick [Lamar]’s To Pimp a Butterfly has opened so many eyes, our album will make even more sense. I think with D’Angelo, J.Cole, Kendrick, Janelle Monae’s Wondaland Records, specifically Jidenna, there is no question that people are ready for the real again and that being unabashedly black in your music, showing our humanity and sophistication alongside our struggles is currently hot. I believe most people are humans still, but we need to step out of this post-race utopian lie where one’s ethnicity and genetic heritage should be swept under the rug to fuel some off-base false-hippie nonsense about color-blindness. Just because I love being black doesn’t mean I dislike others
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that aren’t. That’s what the music I rock with today is saying, and that’s what I’m feeling. I don’t have to make everything about race. I know people like to say it doesn’t exist but I’m not going to hide from it. The music industry is foul, point blank. It’s up to us to make a difference through embracing who we are, all walks of life, and seeing ourselves as world citizens who don’t have to apologize for living our lives how we want as long as it doesn’t directly hurt anyone else. I’m more into spirit than the material world, but I have to find a way to marry those worlds through my Word. Tell me more about The Lique. The Lique is a dream come true. My new band based in Las Vegas has come up quite nicely in just a matter of months thanks to their dedication and talent driven by my vision and incessant effort to expand the reach. I didn’t even ask for this directly. The guitaritst, Sean Carbone, asked around for original lyricists and I had already put in enough work in the Vegas underground to be the first person recommended from a highly respected source in that scene, Rahmaan Phillip. We’re jazz-based hip-hop that extends into funk, psychedelic, metal and R&B. I even do Michael McDonald and James Brown impersonations during our sets. It’s funny, poignant and classy. Above all, it’s a soulful project. We mostly play my solo material and remix hip-hop covers, but we’re building our original material. The Lique is pronounced “leak” and I came up with the name based on a funny incident from touring Switzerland with Butterscotch last year. Any last message for Sacramento upon your triumphant return? Sacramento, it’s been a long time coming, but I’m so glad to be coming home! I love Sacramento so much and have learned to appreciate it so much more now that I’ve finally taken this musical mojo across the globe. I still keep in touch with many people there and I miss all the vegetation. I live in the godforsaken desert. You don’t realize how amazing it is to be surrounded by so much greenery. [Pauses] I don’t mean that kind! I can’t wait to see all my people May 9 at Harlow’s with Joseph in the Well and Ike Torres! Thank you for supporting me both as a local and now that I’ve left the nest. I always rep Sac Town on every single stage I hit no matter where I am in the world. 916 til the end! Should I put my money on black or red? Substantia nigra.
Rasar returns with two area performances. First up at Sophia's Thai Kitchen in Davis on April 30 at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 for this 21-and-over show. He will then play Sacramento's Harlow's on May 9, an all-ages show that gets underway at 7 p.m. Tickets for that performance are $10 and can be purchased through Harlows.com.
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This Band Walks Into a Bar…
Dead Dads revive the levity of pop-punk Words Lovelle Harris photo phill mamula
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been around the Sacramento music scene long enough you know that bands are not just bands—they’re bands, within bands, within bands…well, you get it. A guitarist may moonlight in another band as its bassist, or a drummer may trade in his sticks for a guitar strap—Multi-instrumentalists are commonplace in this town. Such is the case for the members of Dead Dads: its frontman, Wiegert, also plays guitar and sings backup vocals in the local bluesy rock band the Peace Killers, while Lys Mayo on the drums, guitarist Tony Silva and bassist Joe
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McKinney, also known as Joe Friday (yes, inspired by the character on the TV show Dragnet) also lend their skills to other musical outfits around Sacramento. While the band also describes its brand of musical stylings on its Facebook page as “stoner pop-punk,” Dead Dads' music is a fun romp in the world of pop-punk—you know, the cousin to punk, a fusion of fast punk beats and blaring guitar riffs with pop-y melodies and arrangements. “When we first started, we didn’t want to just call ourselves pop-punk because
we were mixing all of these kind of weird riffs and such, and so we started saying stoner pop-punk,” Silva explains. “I think it is a good way to describe us—I mean really we’re a pop-punk band. We take a lot of influence from the Bay Area pop-punk bands.” The quartet began simply as a band of friends—going to shows and hanging out around the Sacramento music scene. What started off as something fun to occupy their time quickly grew into a fullfledged band. “Our first show was in November 2011, and we had
our first practice, probably, late September/early October 2011,” Silva explains. “We didn’t practice very long before we started playing shows,” Wiegert chuckles. “Our first show was for one of Danny Secretion’s cancer benefit shows,” McKinney explains. “And it was at this venue that was also an art gallery in Midtown—which I guess wasn’t a totally legit venue, it didn’t have the proper permits or anything. The name of the venue was a venue called, Digitalis, the show was going well and we were probably the fourth out
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of five bands [on the bill] and right as we were finishing up our last song the people at the venue working there came and said, ‘Hey, you guys got to stop…cops!’” While the police may have busted up the renegade show, the band forged on and their efforts transformed from just playing music and having fun into a serious musical endeavor—ultimately materializing into their first EP, simply titled Ben. “Once we did our first recording it started to get a bit more serious,” Wiegert explains. “It really was just to play local shows as first; we hoped we could do more than that. We’re just now starting to venture out of town, but there wasn’t a particular goal in mind. We found a small label to put out our album and I guess that was somewhat of a goal.” Huddled around a cell phone in the back of Wiegert’s dark blue Dodge Caravan in the parking lot of their practice space (House of Hits Recording Studios in Del Paso Heights, near the Marconi-Arden Arcade light rail station and next to the 7-Up factory), the quartet spoke to Submerge about their early influences, the driving force behind their sound, the dynamics of the band’s creative process and their latest album Space Camp. “I was a band geek starting in fourth grade, I played trumpet and all that stuff and then I heard Green Day and saw [the movie] School of Rock and I decided I wanted to play drums, and that was that,” Mayo says. “Not many of the people my age like the music I like, and the specific music I had in my head that I wanted to play, which was some sort of poppunk that was reminiscent of the old Bay Area poppunk bands,” Wiegert, the elder statesman of the band, explains. “And we all smoke a lot of pot and get weird, so it just really worked out that way.”
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And while you typically don’t see many females in town wailing away behind the drum kit, Mayo is quick to dismiss the idea that being a woman in a band with three dudes is anything remarkable. “I don’t think it’s any different than having a group of four guys or anything like that,” Mayo says, elaborating on the guy-girl dynamic in the band. “They’re just my three best friends, so we inspire each other, we drive each other nuts, we write good music, we write some bad music, it’s not that much different than [any other band out there]…I’m in a band with girls as well, [and] to me I don’t think gender plays a huge role in the dynamic.” The band’s second EP, released earlier this year, was recorded by a mainstay in the local music scene—Patrick Hills, who is also a musician in the punk band Bastards of Young. However, it wasn’t something that the group banged out in a couple of weeks—quite the contrary, whenever the band and Hills had any free time
“I was a band geek starting in fourth grade, I played trumpet and all that stuff and then I heard Green Day and saw [the movie] School of Rock and I decided I wanted to play drums, and that was that.” —Lys Mayo, Dead Dads they chipped away at bringing the 10-song record to life. “We started recording it, I think, at the end of the 2013 and we didn’t actually finish recording ’til probably around the summer of 2014,” Wiegert explains. “And then it took a long time for us to find somebody to put it out and everything. But we recorded
it with a guy named Pat Hills at his place called Earth Tone studio in Rocklin. It was a long process; finally just in the last few months we were able to put it out.” And yes, for all of you movie buffs out there, the inspiration for the album’s title did, in part, come from the teen flick Space Camp as well as a bit of mix-up with the lyrics during the recording process. “What happened was, we were listening to Cory record his vocals for one song and one of the lines I thought he [sang that] he was going to space camp, and I just kept singing it over and over again and then yeah [it just stuck],” McKinney explains. “Also, I missed seeing movies where people went to space camp. It is a total ’80s/ early ’90s thing,” Wiegert continues. “When I was a kid I always thought it sounded so cool.” The artwork for the cover, a collection of ethereal jellyfish on a black and gray space-like background, was brought to life by a friend whose artistic vision spoke to the foursome. “We had a few different ideas…but a friend of ours Jessica Vosburg drew up the cover and then I colored it just using Photoshop and such—she did a sketch of it in black and white and we colorized it,” Wiegert explains. “She drew that probably early 2014—it was probably one of the first album cover ideas we had and we tried about 30 other things and that was the one we always came back to, so two years later we liked it and chose it,” Mayo continues. So, a jellyfish walks into space camp…OK, bad joke, but check out Dead Dads at their upcoming show at Café Colonial on May 3 and get weird!
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act Local Honing his skills at open mics, Joe Kye has garnered regional recognition for his string pop project, Joseph in the Well Words Fabian Garcia Photo Jason Sinn
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ike so many of us, Sacramento violinist-looper Joe Kye has made mistakes. In fact, he still makes mistakes, even now. And inevitably, he’ll probably mess up again, much like we’re bound to as well. More in spirit than verbatim, this is the chorus of Kye’s fourth song “11-8” from his upcoming self-titled EP Joseph in the Well, set to drop May 9. The optimistically poignant sound and lyrics to “11-8,” including his other five tracks, he says, help communicate a theme he’s been playing back to himself over and over again as of late: universality. As Kye puts it, universality ties into the idea that we are all one; that we’re all human; we all feel joy and pain; we all feel awkward at times, and we all feel awesome at times. “It’s hope in shared suffering,” Kye says. “It’s like, ‘Oh, we all suffer. We all feel like crap sometimes.’ And then, through that understanding, I think that’s one of the biggest parts of humanity—the fact that we all suffer. So recognizing that, to me at least, brings a sense of hope.” It was in this mindset of basic human connection and shared suffering that Kye set forth exclusively on his indie string pop music project, Joseph in the Well, in December 2013, after just moving to the Sacramento area six months earlier. He plays alongside local upright bassist Casey Lipka and a “cadre of drummers,” though mainly features Andres Salazar for percussion on the EP. Kye provides the vocals, but more importantly, he also plays the violin coupled with an old, trusty looping station that he’s had since 2007—his first one, actually. Here’s how it works in a nutshell: Kye and his band will start to play a tune and at some point he’ll push down on one of the looping station pedals to record a small part of his live violin playing (plucked or bowed). Like
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clockwork, he’ll push down again and play back that same recording in real time as he continues to play live, thus incorporating it into the performance and repeating the process however many times he likes. Kye says he switches up which section he’ll loop on any given song, never able to play the same loop exactly twice. “That’s kind of the beauty of it,” he says. “From both my perspective, it’s like, ‘Oh man, I get to create something new every time I play this song.’ And then from a listener’s standpoint, it’s like, ‘Well, I could go to this show. But this song is going to be different from next week when I hear it played somewhere else.’” In a way, Kye has created a unique, evergreen quality to his music; it stays fresh with whatever other layers are happening right in front of us. And for such novelty, Sacramento has certainly taken notice. Only playing with his band for little more than a year now, while also bouncing around and offering up his session violin services to any interested party, Kye was able to take home two Sacramento Area Music Awards (SAMMIES) this year: Outstanding New Artist and Artist of the Year. Yes, even without one Joseph in the Well project completely under his belt yet, Joe Kye and his well dwellers have made melodic waves here in the capital city. The type of warm reception that he’s gotten, he says, motivates him and lets him know he’s doing something that resonates with people. That is, after all, what he’s searching for: to relate. “That’s probably the biggest reward in a lot of ways that artists look for,” Kye says of his strong recent feedback. “It’s that moment when you feel like you’ve connected through your…whatever it is that you’ve created, that moment when you feel like you’ve connected with someone who received it.” Kye’s journey to the SAMMIES started at a homegrown level. He performed at one of Capitol Garage’s open mic nights, a scene he suggests any up-and-coming artist in any town explore when looking for people of different talent levels and dedication levels of artistry. Big or small, they all come together at open mics—something Sacramento has more than enough of to spare as Kye soon came to learn.
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“For me, communities are really important. And supporting local culture is also really important to me. Of course I have favorite bands and musicians that come from all over the world. But if you care about the diversity of sound in the world, then you have to support local music and local arts.” – Joe Kye, Joseph in the Well He dove right in, embracing Sacramento’s creative arts scene for what it was. “For me, communities are really important,” Kye says. “And supporting local culture is also really important to me. Of course I have favorite bands and musicians that come from all over the world. But if you care about the diversity of sound in the world, then you have to support local music and local arts.” Kye says much of his outlook on community culture can be attributed to his own migrant past, which began in South Korea and traversed across the globe through five different elementary schools coast to coast, eventually landing in Seattle where he finished high school and went back East again to attend Yale. In other words, Kye has moved around a lot. And through all that moving, he learned to accept his surroundings and engage his environment. It didn’t take long for Kye to welcome Sacramento with open arms and for it to do the same. But unfortunately, he says, many local musicians don’t always do that in a small market like Sacramento. “I think there’s a tendency to shun the Sacramento music scene,” he says. “And I think what you have to do instead of shunning and then shutting down from is you have to recognize its faults, you have to recognize the perks that it has and then invest yourself. You’re the one living in this community, right? Do you want to have to move to a completely different place every time you want to make money? No. You have to cultivate your local scene in order to create that creative diversity—the artistic diversity of the world—as well as a good life for yourself. “The more the proximity to you, that’s where you’re most influential…You’re most influential face-to-face, person-to-person,” Kye adds. “So you gotta make that change on a very local, grassroots basis, and get out there.”
Sticking to his own advice, Kye is certainly getting out there. Having been hard at work recording his EP over the past few months, he has also started a Kickstarter campaign to help subsidize the final touches on the album as well as his national Joseph in the Well tour scheduled for the summer. Aside from stops up and down the West Coast, Kye says he plans to attend the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where music vendors from all over the country will be in attendance, including Fishman (amps) and Boss (looping). Kye is hoping to make some connections there, both artistically and professionally. He says if he can find someone to help promote and book shows for Joseph in the Well while performing at the convention, it’d be like killing two birds with one stone. In these last days of his Kickstarter campaign, Kye is about $1,000 short of his $7,500 goal as of this writing. He’s confident he’ll meet it, too, saying Kickstarters are most active in the first and last 48 hours of the campaign. And with specially crafted prizes for donors—the best one possibly being a personalized one-minute loop song featuring a donor’s name performed by Kye—it seems likely he’ll succeed and then some. All of Kye’s efforts are culminating toward an indie string pop project that has now been three years in the making, and one he says he wants to share with as many people who will listen. He says it’s a reflection of the past five years of his life, and how those experiences (many of them shared by others) have manifested into his own distinctive sound of whimsy, melancholy, peace and, ultimately, love. “I think in a lot ways this EP is me coming to terms with myself. It’s about understanding the common humanity in myself and then sharing what I’ve learned about what connects us to other people. And it’s easily the best form of therapy that I’ve ever had the privilege of having.”
You have until the morning of May 1 to contribute to Joe Kye’s Kickstarter campaign. A link to the campaign is located at Joekye.com. Joseph in the Well will celebrate the release of their EP on May 9 at Harlow’s with Rasar (also featured in this issue). Tickets are $10 in advance and can be purchased through Harlows.com.
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public image as reclusive genius, exuding an aggressive macho persona that doesn’t sit well with the soft-spoken, awkward and younger Caleb. Nathan seems to enjoy toying with his employee’s emotions and expectations, behaving rudely in front of his personal cook/assistant (Sonoya Mizuno) and teasing Caleb with Ava’s apparent sexuality. “Did you program her to flirt with me?” He asks at one point, clearly rattled. Despite Caleb’s discomfort, Ava succeeds at connecting with him on a human level, although it remains unclear whether this is part of Nathan’s orchestrations, or part of Ava’s plan to escape the prison-like facility and disappear into the forest of humankind. As Caleb becomes ever more alienated and suspicious of Nathan, he begins to make plans on his own. The implication of an imminent threat to society is superseded by the interrelational concerns and power-plays of the characters, which unfold like a stage play in the confined spaces of Nathan’s sleek, ultramodern digs. Although each twist and revelation seems to be telegraphed before it occurs, Garland’s keen sense of atmosphere, paired with the simmering electronic soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow (of Portishead fame) help to at least achieve an aura of mystery and dread. It is this polished, hyper-realist quality which makes Ex Machina persist in the viewer=’s mind long after the conclusion becomes inevitable; Nathan’s home is a Syd Mead illustration come to life, shot mostly on location at the real (and open to the public!) Juvet landscape hotel in the Norwegian fjordlands. It seems to represent the pinnacle ‘70s design, with large windows, wood-paneling and seamless incorporation of terrestrial features which help to radiate a real sense of past. We are drawn curiously into a swirl of classic sci-fi references, from the gleaming surfaces of THX 1138 to the futurist kitsch of A Clockwork Orange.
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4.27 Monday
The Blue Lamp Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m. The Colony The Flex, Red Death, Step 4 Change, Dive, 7 p.m. Delta of Venus Jazz Nights w/ Levi Saelua, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Goldfield Open Mic Night hosted by James Cavern, 9 p.m.
Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Press Club Books on Fate, Silver Spoons, Specters, Mallard, 8 p.m.
4.28 Tuesday
The Blue Lamp Thought Vomit, Section 6, Ektomorf, X-Method, 8:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Zephyr & the Superfriends, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 9 p.m. LowBrau Le Twist Tuesdays w/ Tip 2 Tip (Zac Brown of Tycho + Kris Anaya of Doombird), Sam I Jam, Roger Carpio, Adam J, 9 p.m.
Nicholson’s MusiCafe Awholelottabass & Alittlebitoffiddle Bluegrass Band, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rock On! Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Press Club Ariel Jean, The J Hawkins Band, 8 p.m. Shine Open Jazz Jam hosted by Jason Galbraith, 8 p.m. Torch Club Adam Varona, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 9 p.m.
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Ace of Spades Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), 7 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Chaos in Mind, Removed, Outlined, 8 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Steve Earle, The Mastersons, 6:30 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Billy Manzik, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Showcase, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Record Club’s British Pop Wednesdays w/ Roger Carpio, 8 p.m. G Street WunderBar DJ Larry Rodriguez, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Big Data, The Moth & the Flame, 6 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Kenny Rego & The The Law of One Band, Matt W. Gage Band, 8 p.m. Press Club John Moreland, Kevin Seconds & Allyson Seconds, Brett Shady, 8 p.m. Sacramento State: Serna Plaza Nooner w/ ZuhG, 12 p.m. Shine Sir Richard Bishop, Robert Mills, Swimming In Bengal, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Peter Petty & The Double P Review, 9 p.m.
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Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Left of Center, 10 p.m. Press Club Liturgy, So Stressed, Color of Closure, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Rasar feat. BreadFam, 9 p.m. The Stoney Inn Cody Johnson, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Matt Rainey w/ The Dippin Sauce, 9 p.m.
5.01 Friday
Back 9 Bar & Grill Dying Youth, Mastiff, Revile, Mala Vida, 8 p.m. Bar 101 Brian Rogers, 9:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Free Up FridaysReggae w/DJ Wokstar and special guests, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Conducting From The Grave, Aenimus, Entheos, Journal, Flub, The Brotherhood of Ellipsis, 6:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial Boats!, Sean Gospel, Bad Machine, Crazy Squeeze, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Cesar Chavez Park Concerts In the Park 2015 Kick-Off w/ Island of Black & White, Drop Dead Red, Riotmaker, DJ Epik, 5 p.m. Dive Bar Big Sticky Mess, Old Screen Door, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Endangered Souls, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Delta City Ramblers, Pine Street Ramblers, 9 p.m. G Street WunderBar DJ Mouf, 10 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Goldfield Jackson Michelson, Hannah Kile, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Life In the Fast Lane (Eagles tribute), 5:30 p.m.; John Nemeth, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Free Music Series w/ Musical Charis, 9 p.m. Midtown BarFly GRIMEY w/ DJ Whores and Friends, 10 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.
Old Ironsides The Iron Hearts, Name the Band, Rocky Kajimura, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ E-Rock, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pistol Pete’s (Auburn) Restrayned, Attik Door, Clockwork Hero, 9:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Skid Roses, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino AC Myles, 4 p.m.; Apple Z, 9:30 p.m. Shine Blanko Canyon, Umbrella Jim, The Polymers, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Blind Illusion, Condemned?, Solanum, Judhead, The Ghost Next Door, 8 p.m. The Stoney Inn Two Steps Down, 8 p.m. Swabbies on the River Tribute to George Straight by Buck Ford, 6 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Superbad, 9:30 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Miles Schon, 9 p.m.
5.02 Saturday
Ace of Spades Saul Hernandez, 7 p.m. Back 9 Bar & Grill For All I’ve Done, Spine, Terra Ferno, 8:30 p.m. Bar 101 Billy Manzik, 9:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Super Mega Everything, White Knuckle Riot, With Wolves, Nova Sutro, SWIM, Resurrection Of Ruin, 7:30 p.m. The Boardwalk One Eyed Doll, Fair Struggle, Dream In Red, Chick Habit, 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. The Colony Dyer Lane Horror Movie Fundraiser w/ Secretions, Left Hand Band, Riot Radio, 8 p.m. Discovery Park Craig Wayne Boyd (Winner of The Voice Season 7), Cliff Huey, 7 p.m. District 30 DJ Passion, 10 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Way Out West, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose The Orange Scene, Orion Walsh & the Ramblin’ Hearts, 9 p.m.
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5.03 sunday
Bar 101 Ken Koenig, 2 p.m. The Blue Lamp Open Mic w/ special guests Blood Red Sky, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Rittz, Crooked I, Jhornay, Horse Shoe Gang, 7 p.m. Broderick Roadhouse Karaoke w/ DJ Jazcat, 9 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Buck Ford, 5 p.m. Cafe Colonial Dead Dads, Cut Up, Weekender, Area Gray, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Discovery Park Musical Charis, 12 p.m. continued on page 27
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5.07
Fiesta En La Calle’s Cinco De Mayo Festival w/ dinorah and Crosswinds
El Chicano, Midnight Players, Latin Touch Southside Park 12 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Acoustic Sundays, 1 p.m. Harlow’s The Beatles 1965, 6 p.m. Main Stage Theater (Grass Valley) Gundecha Brothers, Colleena Shakti, 7:30 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Chris Cain, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Jackson Michelson, 1 p.m. Sangam Hall Moods of Raaga & Rhythm w/ Siar Hasiq, Daniel Kennedy, Arthur Gould, Leo Bootes, Pandit Binay Pathak and More, 3:30 p.m. Southside Park Fiesta En La Calle’s Free Cinco De Mayo Festival w/ El Chicano, Dinorah and Crosswinds, Midnight Players, Latin Touch, 12 p.m. Swabbies on the River Spazmatics, 4 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Hot City Jazz, 8 p.m. The Urban Hive Singing the Great American Songbook Vocal Jazz Jam, 7 p.m.
Press Club Dire Peril, Desecrate, Weresquatch, Gladius, Salythia, 8 p.m.
5.05 Tuesday
The Blue Lamp Cinco de Mayo Party w/ DJ Davie Xander, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Helmet: Betty 20th Anniversary Show, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 9 p.m. LowBrau Le Twist Tuesdays w/ Sam I Jam, Roger Carpio, Adam J, 9 p.m. Main Stage Theater (Grass Valley) Al Di Meola, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rock On! Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Press Club Cura Cochino, Eye of Nix, Ungulate, Years of Aggression, 8 p.m. Shine Open Jazz Jam hosted by Jason Galbraith, 8 p.m. Torch Club Blake Abbey, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 9 p.m.
5.04 5.06 monday
The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial Crisis Arm, Scissor Vision, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m. Delta of Venus Monday Jazz Series w/ Johnny Gold Trio, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Goldfield Open Mic Night hosted by James Cavern, 9 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.
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Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Real Thugz Tour w/ Crizzly, Antiserum, Laxx, 10 p.m. Dive Bar IdeaTeam, Thunder Cover, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Showcase, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Record Club’s British Pop Wednesdays w/ Roger Carpio, 8 p.m. G Street WunderBar DJ Larry Rodriguez, 10 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m.
He is Legend Must Be the Holy Ghost, Surviving the Era The Boardwalk 6:30 p.m.
Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub WTF Wednesdays, 9 p.m. Sacramento Memorial Auditorium Joe Bonamassa, 8 p.m. Sacramento State: Serna Plaza Nooner w/ Element Brass Band, 12 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Brian Rogers, 9 p.m.
5.07 Thursday
Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp The Grind: Dlo, DJ Eddie Z, 8:30 p.m. The Boardwalk He is Legend, Must Be the Holy Ghost, Surviving the Era, 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 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. El Dorado Saloon DJ River, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Marty Cohen & The Sidekicks, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Timothy Bloom, Kev Choice, Harley White Jr., James Cavern 9 p.m. The Hideaway Bar & Grill Trash Rock Thursdays, 9 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Vibe Night w/ Aranesa Turner (from American Idol), Ajuana Black, Kimball Hooker, Tone Malone, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Blackwater, 10 p.m. Press Club New Jack Fling w/ DJ’s CrookOne, Epik, Ben Johnson, 9:30 p.m.
Red Lion Woodlake Hotel Michael McDonald, Hans!, 7:30 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Tomten, The Lower 48, 9 p.m. Third Space Neil Michael Hagerty, G. Green, Shark Toys, 8:30 p.m. Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Aki Kumar, 9 p.m.
5.08 FRIDAY
Ace of Spades Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty, 7 p.m. Bar 101 In the No, 9:30 p.m. Blackbird Kitchen+Beer Gallery CIP Afterparty w/ Merdog, Hans! and the HOT MESS, The Sac Storytellers, DJ Epik, 8 p.m. The Blue Lamp Nice up tha Dance w/ The Champion Inc., Scratch Outs, DJ Wokstar, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Dev, Jordan Blake & Friends, Kari, Twitch, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Cesar Chavez Park Concerts In the Park w/ Joy & Madness, Sol Peligro, Zyah Belle & The Funkshun, Paul Gordon & the Ambient Lounge Experience, 5 p.m. Colonial Theatre White Minorities, White Knuckle Riot, T.O.O.K, Anamism, Slaves of Manhattan, Defyant Circle, 6 p.m. Delta of Venus Hollow Point Stumblers, 7 p.m. District 30 Miles Medina, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Joshua Cambridge Experience, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon DJ ZR, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Musical Charis, Blame the Bishop, 9 p.m. G Street WunderBar Tea Leaf Green, Jay Cobb Anderson (of Fruition), Erik Yates (of Hot Buttered Rum), 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.
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Goldfield Buck Ford Pure Country Band, 9 p.m. Harlow’s CIP Afterparty w/ Once An Empire, Iconoclast Robot, Tell the Wolves, 9:30 p.m. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Sammy Hagar, 7:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Free Music Series w/ SeaLegs, 9 p.m. Main Stage Theater (Grass Valley) Joan Armatrading, Melissa Ferrick, 8 p.m. Midtown BarFly FUCK FRIDAYS w/ Shaun Slaughter and Guests, 10 p.m. Mix DJ Graham Funke, DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Mondo Deco, Truck Fight, Jem and Scout, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub WonderBread 5, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Sacramento Community Center Theater Sacramento Choral Society Presents Songs of Eternity, 8 p.m. Shine Lob’s 50th Birthday Party w/ Instagon (2 Sets), Ciao Cinecittà, 7 p.m. Starlite Lounge Bellygunner, Felsen, Julie the Bruce, 8 p.m. The Stoney Inn Tiffany Lorraine Band, 8 p.m. Swabbies on the River Daze on the Green, 6 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Steven Roth, Mia Dyson, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Jackson Hall Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, 8 p.m.
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Ace of Spades Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Pacific Dub, 6:30 p.m. Back 9 Bar & Grill Bispora, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Vagabond Brothers, 9:30 p.m. The Boardwalk Dog Fashion Disco, Beeb$, Trikome, Mdso, 6:30 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial Second To Last, Fighting Words, Plane Without A Pilot, Sleep No More, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. The Colony Rad, Mr. Bang, Khaos Assault, Ballistic Burnout, 6:30 p.m. Community Center Theater Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra: Songs for Eternity, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Black Zeppelin, 9 p.m. Fire Rock Grill The Vivian Lee Quartet, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Face 4 Radio, Who & the What Now, 9 p.m.
5.08 Lob’s 50th Birthday Party w/ Instagon
Ciao Cinecittà Shine 7 p.m.
Gallery 2110 Art Complex Uptown Get Down feat. Latin Party Crew, Q-Vo, 5 p.m. Goldfield Josh Budro Band, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Joseph in the Well (EP Release), Rasar (with live band BreadFam), Torres, 6 p.m.; Solsa, 9:30 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Free Music Series w/ Hot City, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides Kittens Having Kittens, Marine Life, Bean Pole, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Midnight Players, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Sacramento Bike Kitchen 50Watt Heavy, The Bathtub Gins, Basket House, 7 p.m. Shine Pandoval, Miss Massive Snowflake, Mallard, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Rin Tin Tiger, 9:30 p.m. Starlite Lounge Zero Client, Zen Arcadia, Drawing Out Life, The Hopeless Romantics, 8 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Soul Legends (Old School Tribute), 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Whoopie Qat, 4 p.m.; Chris Antonik, 9 p.m.
5.10 Sunday
Ace of Spades E-40, Stevie Stone, Nessasary, Cool Nutz, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Adrian Bellue, 2 p.m. The Boardwalk The Green, Two Peace, House of Shem, 6:30 p.m. Broderick Roadhouse Karaoke w/ DJ Jazcat, 9 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Steven Ma, Yi-Jun Lee, 2 & 5 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Duo Tuo, 3 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Acoustic Sundays, 1 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Terry Hanck, 3:30 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River Scott Rodell, 2 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.
5.11 Monday
The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m. Delta of Venus Monday Jazz Series w/ Levi Saelua, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Goldfield Open Mic Night hosted by James Cavern, 9 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Remember When Rock Was Young: The Elton John Tribute w/ Craig Meyer, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Press Club Spines, Linear Downfall, Exquisite Corps, 5 p.m. Starlite Lounge Anaal Nathrakh, Incite, Secrets of the Sky, Plague Widow, 8 p.m.
Comedy Congregation Beth Shalom You’re Funny, But You Don’t Look Jewish Comedy Night w/ Mike Capozzola, Gina Gold, Samson Koletkar, Joe Nguyen, May 2, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Justin Rivera, Tom McClain, May 1 - 3, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Open Mic Showcase hosted by Cheryl “the Soccer Mom” Anderson, May 5, 8 p.m.
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Manny Maldonado, Lance Woods, May 8 - 10, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy, every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Punchline Comedy Club The Comedians with Disabilities Act CD Release Party, April 29, 8 p.m. Ms. Pat, Jaime Fernandez, Brendan Lynch, April 30 - May 2, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Emma Haney, Stephen Furey, Johnny Taylor, Saul Trujillo, May 3, 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Showcase, May 6, 8 p.m. Alex Reymundo, May 7 - 10, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m. Cage Match, Tuesday’s, 9 p.m. Improv Lab, Harold Night & Gordon Teams, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m. Gag Order & Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m. Top 10 Podcast, Friday’s, 7 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m. Robert Berry: Live Comedy Album Taping, May 2, 10:30 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Serna Plaza Free Comedy Show: Jen Kober, May 7, 7:30 p.m. Tommy T’s Fabulous 5 Comics for $5 feat. E. Winfield, E Clark, Regina Givens, DJ Sandoun, Ellis Rodriguez, May 1 - 2, 7:30 p.m. Faizon Love, May 8 - 10, Fri. & Sat. 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.
Misc. 20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, every Saturday, 8 a.m. Avid Reader (Davis) Nora Pouillon: My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat, April 27, 7:30 p.m. Citizens Creek with Lalita Tademy, May 3, 2 p.m.
5.02
B Street Theatre Buyer and Cellar by Jonathan Tolins, through May 9 The Jacksonian by Beth Henley, through June 7 Belle Cooledge Library Stories from the World’s Family, May 6, 7 p.m. Blue Cue Bar Bingo, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. The Blue Lamp Naughty Trivia!, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Brickhouse Gallery The Art of Nicholas M. Taylor, through April 30 California Stage Theatre Como el Viento, Flamenco en Vivo, May 3, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Central Park (Davis) Davis Pride Festival and 5K Run for Equality, May 3, 9 a.m. Contemporary Dance Conservatory Peace Is the Mission feat. the Art of Jim Shepherd, Contemporary Dance Conservatory and More, May 9, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Chinatown, May 1, 7:30 p.m. James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause, May 8, 7:30 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Of Cottages and Castles: The Art of California Faience, through May 17 The Nature of William S. Rice: Arts and Crafts Painter and Printmaker, through May 17 HATCH Dance Works In Progress, April 30, 6:30 p.m. Discovery Park Bassmaster Elite Series, April 30 - May 3 Elliott Fouts Gallery New Works by Kathrine Lemke Waste & Tim White, through May 7 Fair Oaks Village The 66th Annual Fair Oaks Fiesta, May 2 - 3, 10 a.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Granite Regional Park Pretty Muddy Women’s Run 5K, May 2, 8 a.m. Harris Center for the Arts
Robert Berry: Live Comedy Album Taping Sacramento Comedy Spot 10:30 p.m.
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It’s quite possible that the dawning of the new age is upon us. If you’re reading this in a public setting— hypothetically, let’s say a Carl’s Jr.—take a look around you. That person at the booth across the way, the one pounding the Western Bacon Cheeseburger and side of CrissCut fries; the one with the barbecue sauce dribbling down his/her chin is the product of 5 billion years of evolution. Like, the Big Bang, asteroids, stardust, ferns, amoebas, dinosaurs and woolly mammoths all led up to that person in the booth across the way washing down his/her tasty fast food meal with a Diet Coke. Just think about it for a second. Suddenly it’s a thing of beauty, right? But what’s next? Sure, evolution is happening right now, supposedly, but who can see it? We’ll be long dead before whatever creature replaces Homo sapiens walks the Earth. It’s sort of the way of things. How many neanderthals have you bumped into recently? Evolution is a slow-ass process though, and, as it was once fashionable to say on the Internet, ain’t nobody got time for that. We want everything on-demand. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of waiting around for all this evolving to take place. I WANT IT NAOW. Good thing some scientists in China are working on creating a new race of superbeings in their lab or whatever. OK, not really, but I prefer to let my imagination run away with things. It’s really the only way I can get through the day. A team of super smart people headed by Junjiu Huang of Sun Yat-sen University published a paper titled “CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes” in the journal Protein & Cells. I would have read the study, but I wasn’t able to read through the title without feeling like an idiot. Anyway, it confirmed rumors that genetic modification experiments had been conducted on human embryos, which caused many in the scientific community, and just your run-of-the-mill laymen like me, to pontificate about whether or not this sort of thing is ethical. I’m not going to enter into that sort of debate. I can’t tell you whether or not something is ethical if I don’t really know what the procedure is. But clearly, the ramifications on what this could mean to this and future generations are truly something to ponder. The embryos Huang and his team experimented on were obtained from fertility clinics and were classified as “non-viable,” which meant they were incapable of a live
birth. Their aim was to remove the gene responsible for a potentially fatal blood disorder, β-thalassaemia, using the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic modification technique—which is Star Trek as fuck now that I look at it. However, according to the BBC, their efforts were mostly unsuccessful. “In some embryos, new genetic mutations, so-called off-target effects, arose in unexpected places,” Smitha Mundasad’s article on BBC.co.uk stated. It got me wondering what they meant by “off-target” and “unexpected,” like, did the embryo grow antlers? Did it glow with the light of a thousand suns? Was it able to quickly divvy up the check for a party of six and calculate a fair and generous tip without use of a calculator? What if it gained super powers? Like Wolverine? Or Storm?! As the ethics and legality of what Huang and his team were doing were hashed out, one doctor, Yalda Jamshidi of St. George University hospital pondered “what unpredictable effects” all this meddling would have on “future generations.” UNPREDICTABLE?! I want a baby who shoots fucking eye lasers! Well… Perhaps not. It’s tough enough raising a child with all the free access they have to the Internet nowadays without having to worry about the little tyke accidentally frizzle frying the poodle with his/her eye beams. That’s why I’d totally volunteer to have my genes altered. I’m a grown man of 38 and have the moral fortitude and maturity needed to handle the responsibility of any/all powers that might be bestowed upon me via genetic mutation. If you’re wondering what my qualifications are, I hold down a full-time job, pay my rent on time every month and I’m even more or less up to date on all my student loans. Furthermore, if I had mutant superpowers, I’d promise to use them responsibly, and not just to get women to sleep with me or whatever. I’d get cats out of trees, help old ladies cross the street when/where applicable and be on the front lines fending off any and all supernatural threats from other galaxies, alternate dimensions and/or whatever dark beasties dwell in the center of the Earth, and I’d most certainly never run for public office. So Mr. Huang (can I just call you Junjiu?), if you’re reading this, have at it. I’m ready for the next stage in human evolution. I want to be super awesome and move our species forward. And, like, if you could give me the gene for sixpack abs in the process, that’s cool too. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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