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One could call this a film issue. A couple weeks ago I got word that the skateboard film Ye Olde Destruction will be doing a premiere at Midtown BarFly on Feb. 6. It’s a film by Thomas Campbell that’s shot almost entirely on 16mm film. It features skateboarders Louie Barletta, John Worthington, Eli Williams and many, many more. It even features a local fave, Omar Salazar! One thing that’s super cool about the Sacramento premiere is that it’s going to be scored live by Tommy Guerrero, Matt Rodriguez, Lee Bob Watson and Josh Lippi. Also DJing that night will be DJ Juan Love aka John Cardiel. Filmmaker Thomas Campbell, will also be in attendance. We were lucky enough to do a phone interview with him as he was driving to Utah for an art show. Check out page 20 to read our Q&A. In this issue, starting on page 12, we also interviewed Boots Riley, lead vocalist of Oakland’s The Coup and writer and director of the film Sorry to Bother You, which won the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Award for best first feature. Riley, a rapper, filmmaker and activist, will be coming to Sacramento State’s University Union Ballroom on Feb. 13 to give a lecture on race, economics and other social justice issues. Please read our feature to learn more about his upcoming projects, thoughts on joining organizations and how great art is made. The Sultan of Sleaze, the Baron of Bad Taste, the Pope of Trash, ahem, the John Waters also gave Submerge a few minutes of his time! Waters, a filmmaker, director, writer, actor and artist, will be coming to the Crest Theatre in Sacramento on Feb. 28 for a fully revamped This Filthy World, a one-man show/ documentary film. Starting on page 18 you can read our interview with this legend, where Waters discusses his annual top-10 favorite film-of-the-year lists, how he is truly able to appreciate bad taste and what we can expect from the new edition of This Filthy World. The Seafloor Cinema. They’re a great local “twinkly” emo/math rock band. OK, there isn’t much film talk here, but hey, their name does have the word Cinema! A stretch I know, but as mentioned in the story (starting on page 16) their YouTube video “In the Future There Will Be 500 Channels but Nothing to Watch” has more than 17,000 views. Be sure to read our feature to learn how this band ended up going from being an instrumental group to one with a vocalist, how they are taking a cue from Twisted Sister to pay for a new album and how they teamed up with the beloved Emo Night crew. Last but not least, to round out this de facto “film issue” check out “Submerge Your Senses” on page 10 to learn about Crocker Art Museum’s Silent Film Series and which venue in our area will host Randy’s—from cult classic show Trailer Park Boys— “Cheeseburger Picnic Tour.” Read. Learn. Do rad things, Melissa Welliver

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Artist Susan Silvester’s Second Saturday Reception at Capital Public Radio • Feb. 8 We’ve been big fans of Sacramento by-way-of New York City artist Susan Silvester since we first featured her in Submerge way back in 2013, and we’re thrilled to see her still doing her thing today. Her latest exhibit, Enchanted: Spaces + Places, will open on Saturday, Feb. 8 at Capitol Public Radio (7055 Folsom Blvd.). Silvester’s style is somewhat dark, yet fairytale-like, and is full of whimsical animals, children and delightful patterns. In the past, Silvester has created sculptures and props for everything from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to Universal Studios. Locally, her work has been seen in galleries like Crocker Art Museum, Davis Art Center, Fe Gallery, Verge Center for the Arts and others. The artist will be on hand for the opening reception on Feb. 8, which will run from 4–6 p.m. and is free and open to all ages. Check out Susansilvester.com to learn more about the artist, and for more info on the reception visit Facebook.com/capradio and head to their “Events” page.

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Sacramento’s newest venue, The Russ Room, located upstairs at Solomon’s Delicatessen (730 K St.), is kicking their calendar into high gear this month with all sorts of regular DJ events and soon-to-be a lot of live music. One of the coolest recurring nights at the venue will be the “Moon Dust Dance Party” with legendary local DJ Larry Rodriguez spinning disco, funk, soul, reggae and more. Moon Dust will take place second and fourth Fridays (Feb. 14 and 28). No cover, full bar and late night snacks. I recently caught the last few songs of local band The Big Poppies’ set at The Russ Room and I was very impressed with the sound system, the acoustics and the overall vibe of the place. Looking out the huge windows onto K Street behind the band and/or DJ is pretty cool, and the newly restored mural out front looks awesome from this vantage point. Look them up on socials (@therussroom or @solomonsdelicatessen) for more info.

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THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST WE USED TO BURN WITCHES BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com How comfortable are you with yourself? It seems like an odd question to ask, but how much do you really know about yourself? Do you think a machine could learn those same things about you by looking at your online shopping and search history? With our current technology, companies already have computers looking for hidden patterns in our online behavior to learn things about us that we don’t want them to know, that aren’t true or that we don’t like about ourselves. Most of them use that information to sell us more junk, but what if it ends up getting used for other reasons? Online sellers like Amazon use our purchase and search history to suggest products it thinks we might want to purchase. They also look at comments and ratings we’ve made. Some online retailers even analyze things like where your cursor sits and what you click on. These companies design computer algorithms to help pitch us items they think we are likely to buy, but what happens when the machine gets it wrong? Amazon gets it right a lot of the time, but that’s not always the case. Recently, my wife and I decided to decorate a shelf in our house with several candlesticks. We decided to use different colored candles in the holders to make things more interesting, so we ordered a batch of various colored candles from Amazon. We just thought it would look nice, but apparently, multi-colored candles are also used in witchcraft. Now Amazon thinks I’m trying to be the next Harry Potter. They send me emails suggesting that I buy pentagrams, spell books and bizarre animal, mineral and vegetable extracts from them all the time. Amazon’s artificial intelligence assistant, Alexa, hasn’t fared any better in my experience. Talking to Alexa is like going on a bad date; she is always making suggestions you didn’t ask for and she never listens when you want to talk. When I ask her something, Alexa usually mishears me, even if I enunciate slowly like some sort of lunatic. The other night, my wife and I decided to watch the movie, Ed Wood. Unable to find Tim Burton’s 1994 bizarro biopic of Hollywood’s worst director anywhere else, we turned to

Alexa to help us out. I grabbed my remote, hit the microphone button to wake Alexa and said, “Ed Wood.” Alexa chirped in approval and said that she would “add wood” to my wish list. My wife gave it a go and got the same result before we gave up and typed in our query instead. Great … Amazon probably thinks we’re planning to sacrifice someone now. I can’t wait to see what suggestions I get to go along with those witches’ candles I bought and all that wood on my wish list. The examples I’ve provided are admittedly comical and of little importance in the grand scheme of things, but that might not always be the case. We need to start thinking about that. Companies like Amazon are going to continue to collect our information willy-nilly and sell it to the top bidder to cover things like the free shipping and generous return policies that drove us into their online arms and everyone else out of business in the first place. Amazon, and companies of their ilk, don’t care who they sell our information to and it’s not just people who want to sell you crap who are buying it. Some people enjoy the convenience of it all, but what happens when that information is wrong or potentially harmful? What happens when a computer decides that someone is, say … a witch, and the company sells that information off to a political campaign or an activist group? In the wrong hands, that information could lead to something a lot worse than misdirected advertising. There was a time in American history when we burned witches. It’s been awhile since we did that, but I can’t rule out a return of the practice in Trump’s America. I wish we could trust that companies like Amazon wouldn’t misrepresent us to anyone willing to pay a fee, and that people wouldn’t buy this information for nefarious reasons, but that’s not the world we live in anymore. We should make online retailers stop collecting our information and prevent them from selling it to anyone else. Until then, I’m going on Amazon to buy some bibles and watch some Kirk Cameron movies to hopefully fix this whole witch thing. Wish me luck or I just might curse you!

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Got Beads? Get Those Outfits Ready for Shannon McCabe’s Fifth Annual Mardi Gras Masked Ball at Harlow’s! Feb. 8

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OK, so Sacramento isn’t exactly the nation’s most famous deltaadjacent city, but there’s no reason we can’t celebrate Mardi Gras just like they do down in the Big Easy. To that end, Shannon McCabe, most known in the city for throwing her yearly “Vampire Ball,” is throwing a costumed Mardi Gras Masked Ball at Harlow’s (2708 J St.) on Feb. 8. Yes, bring your beads, but to truly impress you’ll need a full-on outfit replete with a feather boa, a glittering gown and, of course, a mask. The night kicks off at 6 p.m. with a real NOLA-style second line parade that snakes around the neighboring park, starring Dixieland stylings of the Double X Brass Band. The party resumes inside Harlow’s with beats from DJs Bryan Hawk and Norman Stradley, alongside Mardi Gras-themed cocktails and king cake. Next up are “voodoo performances” on the patio outside with drumming and dancing troupe Peter and the Eye of the Sphinx, followed by a burlesque performance by the Vampire Ball’s very own Sugar Cheeks backed up by the Amped entertainment dancers. Tickets are $30 in advance. For information and tickets, head to Shannonmccabe.com.

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Local Indie Rock Band, The Honest, Celebrate Release of Debut EP With Show at The Starlet Room Feb. 13

With both Holy Diver and The Press Club holding periodic emo nights, it’s never been a better time to be a guy in Sacramento who’s still listening to American Football. Stop by Harlow’s Starlet Room (2708 J St.) on Thursday, Feb. 13 to catch The Honest, one of the brightest stars in Sacramento’s emo-revival constellation, as they release their debut EP, The Things We Say Now. Before now, The Honest have released only a handful of singles and demos, some of which will appear on the new EP. One of our personal favorites is “Couch,” one of the lead singles on the new release. With a tale of lost love, quotidian slacker depression and even a voicemail intro, “Couch” has all the trappings of an emo classic. Joining The Honest on stage will be local math-rock quartet The Seafloor Cinema, as well as post-hardcore outfit A Foreign Affair. So put on your black vans, skin-tight jeans and flannels and get ready for a real good, real sad time. $10 general admission. Doors at 7 p.m., show begins at 8. Check out Thestarletroom.com for tickets and info.

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Crocker Art Museum’s Silent Film Series to Include Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid & Other Classics • Feb. 6, March 5 & April 2 The Crocker Art Museum (216 O St.) is full of pictures, each worth a thousand words apiece—far more than the old-time films in their new Silent Film Series, starting on Thursday, Feb. 6. Before each film, moviegoers will be taken on a docent-led tour of the Crocker’s private collections, with each tour being customized for the film in order to place it in an artistic context. First up is Charlie Chaplin’s feature-length directorial debut, The Kid, in which he assumes his famous role of the baggy-pantsed, mustachioed Tramp, who learns to love an abandoned child he finds on the street. With slapstick humor and a touching plot, The Kid is a silent film whose emotional payoffs still hold up nearly 100 years after its initial premiere. Next, is F.W. Murnau’s German expressionist masterpiece, Nosferatu. Known today mostly for the goofy, goblin-like costuming used by lead actor Max Schreck in his portrayal of the vampire, Nosferatu’s pioneering usage of light and shadow make for a thoroughly creepy horror film that is as beautiful as it is terrifying. The third film in this trilogy is 2011’s Academy Award-winner The Artist, which (though not truly silent) details the titular Artist’s declining popularity as a silent film star at the beginning of the talkie era. Tour at 5:30 p.m., film at 6. $8 for members, $16 general admission. Visit Crockerart.org for more info.

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Randy From Cult Classic Show Trailer Park Boys Brings His “Cheeseburger Picnic Tour” To Sacramento • Feb. 9 Trailer Park Boys, everyone’s favorite Canadian mockumentary about a coterie of dirtbag mobile home residents, continues to be a cult classic 20 years after it was first released. Well, now you don’t have to keep binging on Netflix to relive the show’s glory days. Randy’s Cheeseburger Picnic, which stars the titular, always shirtless assistant park supervisor from the show, is coming to The Boardwalk (9426 Greenback Lane) on Sunday, Feb. 9 to treat fans to a meaty meet-and-greet. The show styles itself as part stand-up, part audience interaction and part game show, wherein the cheeseburger gobbling comedian spouts classic punchlines from the show, as well as new material inspired by the character. In addition to songs, skits and prizes, lucky fans might get a chance to help Randy by serving as an (assistant) assistant trailer park supervisor for a particular duty. Mega-fans can purchase a special meet-and-greet ticket at the merch table inside for $20, but for the rest of us, a taste of one of the hamburgers sold at every show will be enough to feel like one of the boys. Doors at 7 p.m., starts at 8. Tickets are $25. Check out Boardwalkrocks.com for tickets and info.

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f you’ve ever thought about making a list of the most prolific people ever, then Boots Riley isn’t a bad place to start. You can place him somewhere between Stephen King— who has authored 61 novels and hundreds of short stories in addition to spending time on music, philanthropy and rage-tweeting at Trump—and Ramses II, who fathered 162 children while pharaoh of Egypt. In addition to being incredibly talented and politically engaged, Riley’s relentless work ethic has him writing, directing, rapping, engaging in local activism and national politics and public speaking, with an upcoming engagement at Sacramento State’s University Ballroom on Feb. 13. Raised in Oakland, Riley started rapping in the early ‘90s with The Coup, a hip-hop group that stood out for their activism, politics and engagement in an era of opulent, materialism-obsessed Oakland rappers like MC Hammer and Tony! Toni! Toné!. The Coup quickly became the flagship for woke East Bay hip-hop, and in 2002, Vibe magazine named Boots Riley one of the 10 most influential people of the year. In addition to being the Energizer Bunny of activism, he wrote and directed his first feature film, 2018’s Sorry to Bother You, a sci-fi/fantasy flick set in an alternate universe version of Oakland, which earned Riley an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Famously rapping, “Every verse is from the cardiac,” Riley is never one to mince words. I sat down with him to talk about his upcoming projects, politics and his speaking engagement at Sac State, and his perspective on the mess we’re in. True to form, Riley didn’t disappoint.

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How’d you get started—who were you as a kid and how’d that lead you here? I grew up in Oakland and started getting involved with radical organizations when I was 15 being involved with farmworkers … I got more involved in theater and started looking at ways to maybe combine the theater with the ideas that I wanted to put out there. And then Spike Lee came out, and I was like, “Oh, you could do this on a big screen,” and I went to film school. And at the same time, because of Digital Underground, Too Short, MC Hammer and Tony! Toni! Toné!, Oakland was a place where every record label was like, “Oh, we have to have a group from Oakland.” So we had a tape out, and we got signed. And then I did music for 20 something years and came back to this.

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Well, it’s exciting nonetheless. Are you done with music all together? No. For the show, we’ll be doing one cool song per episode. But touring is something we won’t really be doing much of anymore.

What made you kind of jump from music to film, to writing and directing? It’s not so much of a jump. I went to film school and quit school because I got a record deal. I did theater in high school and all that kind of stuff. My grandmother ran the Oakland Ensemble Theater. It was all this one big expression. I mean, obviously, there’s some real differences in it. Like if I want to make a song, I can sit here and write something and if I wanted to be done with the song in 20 minutes from now. I can’t do that with a film. I read that you taught a class in the early 2000s in Oakland about social justice and culture and resistance. It was a lyric writing class for high school students. But before that I had a workshop at La Peña [Cultural Center]. One of my students was a 14-yearold kid named David, who went on to be in Hamilton. We did basically like a newspaper on tape where we would talk about the issues and people, go write the raps and then we recorded them, and then we got on a flatbed truck and did these things that we call guerrilla hip-hop concert. That sounds amazing. Do recordings to that exist anywhere? Yes … We call the tape The Rumble … I have a CD of it somewhere … We met somebody that worked at UC Berkeley that had a tape duplication thing and we made

a bunch of them … We’d be on the flatbed truck, and we’d give out the tapes. I understand that you’re doing a lecture at the University Ballroom on the 13 th. Tell me a little bit about that. Well, you know, as things will probably be changing in the world, so in the end, I’ll reserve the right to change what I talk about. I’m usually talking about change from the standpoint of us realizing where the crux of our power comes from. And utilizing that in order to make a change, and looking at the ways that movements have and haven’t flourished based on whether or not they used that crux of our power as the basis for the movement. So the main contradiction under capitalism is the exploitation of labor. And so if we want to change things, it will have to come from the point of us withholding labor. You can organize that in many ways because that can be used to raise wages and make living conditions better. But it can also be used for other issues that are not always seen as a labor issue. What’s an example of that? For instance, if radicals had been organizing around labor in, let’s say Ferguson for 15 years before that, then when that cop needed to be indicted, they could have just shut down a few industries in the St. Louis area and that cop would have been indicted.

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Yes. Totally. You’re right. And some of this confusion comes from the fact that, since the beginning of what they call the new left in the 1960s, the left has been running away from class struggle. And so it’s confused people as to how power works. Do you see that as something new? But I’m saying there was a period of time, and I think that there are myriad reasons, and that’s kind of what I’ll be talking about, but obviously, there was—and it’s hard to talk about one of them without really talking about the rest of them. But in the ‘50s, you had the House on American Activities Committee and, you know, a big—in the McCarthy era with all the unions for instance, getting rid of all the radicals. And you see from then on those unions had much less teeth to them because they weren’t fighting for the same things anymore. They weren’t as ready to fight. The ones that were the most effective and the most militant were the ones that were the most effective, and the most militant since then is the only one that said we don’t care if you’re a communist, we’re fighting alongside you, and that was the longshoremen. So what would you say to a well-meaning but out-oftouch, left-leaning person who’s listening to you in the audience or reading this article and looking for advice as to how to engage? Well, you have to be involved in some sort of organization. Otherwise everything that you say on social media or to your friends, there’s nowhere for it to go. And not only do you have to be involved in some sort of organization, you need to be involved in some sort of organization that has an entry point for people that aren’t as radical as you to be able to get involved. Meaning an organization that’s involved in the movements that can create material change that happens now, but with a radical vision for building a movement. So in short, join an organization that is radical in vision and making material change now. SubmergeMag.com

You seem to kind of straddle art and activism in a really special way. Did you have a roadmap for that growing up? I didn’t have a roadmap for that. But you know, there are definitely people that I looked up to like Paul Robeson who did some of that. A lot of revolutionary leaders were poets, so there’s some connection there. But I’ve always just looked at art as communication. And I think, like, great art is made by people who are passionate about something more than just making art. In that sense, it kind of imbues your art with meaning. Yes. It makes you make choices that are based on emotion and thought, as opposed to just something aesthetically pleasing. So for me … I’ve been involved in organizations and had these ideas, and my art is a way to express that. It changes, and it’s made me change and reconsider how I’m doing that, you know, all those sorts of things. But I’ve had an uneasy, as you say, straddling of that fence … I’m always questioning. You’re always living in a place where you feel like you’re not doing enough of one thing, or doing too much of another thing. Doesn’t matter how much you flip it, but it’s always going to be there. And I’ve quit doing art. Completely? Yes. I quit. And actually, that’s when I became the telemarketer. And, you know, because we had an organization called the Young Comrades, I could do that job just like one day every couple of weeks and make enough money to keep just doing the organization. And then that organization broke up. And then I figured out I could go back to doing music.

Stop by the Sacramento State University Union Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13 for a special lecture event featuring Boots Riley. Expect Riley to speak about topics such as race, economics and other social justice issues. This event is brought to you by UNIQUE Programs at Sacramento State. For more info, go to Sacstateunique.com.

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A GIFT FOR STORYTELLING, PLACING GENIALITY OVER VITRIOL & A KEEN EYE FOR THE INAPPROPRIATE HAVE CEMENTED JOHN WATERS’ STATUS AS AMERICA’S FILTH ELDER

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he evolution of John Waters from underground film anarchist and good taste-demolition expert to eccentric memoirist and elder statesman of American pop art has been a long and gradual one. And it’s more shocking than ever today. Pink Flamingos, his rough-hewn 1972 classic, remains a challenge to intestinal fortitude that holds its own with any of the internet shock videos younger generations dare each other to watch today. And in 2020, it’s also as likely to be glimpsed on Turner Classic Movies or amongst a stack of the Criterion DVDs as it is in a midnight screening. Whether you take it as a sign of society’s progress or as proof that we are truly living among the damned, one must ask oneself: Whither filth? Filth, trash and anarchic humor are central to the Waters persona, but the secret to his longevity lies in the fact that shock alone has never been the final nesting doll. After a run of mainstream-friendly hits starting with his self-proclaimed “Trojan horse” Hairspray (1988), his eclectic, unmistakable style has found success across numerous artistic fields, from concept art (watch out for “serious” looking monochrome photography that suddenly squirts water on unsuspecting passersby, or a portrait of Justin Bieber re-envisioned as a plastic surgery addict) to literature. Over the past four decades, he’s also put out seven well-received books, in which nearly all of his obsessions, loves, hates, heroes, turn-offs and tall (yet true) tales are brought to life with rabid enthusiasm. As Waters has continued to reveal his character over countless speaking tours, one-man shows and commencement speeches (!), the more likeable he gets, and the clearer it becomes that all of his works—even the sledgehammer-subtle affronts of his early days—are the product of careful study. Not the sort that demands rote memorization of the art-school canon; the kind that gleefully dynamites the hidebound aristocracy of taste in favor of taking the things you love seriously, and fearlessly diving into your own, uniquely warped sensibilities. Doing so has given him one of the more devoted cult followings in entertainment. It has also honed his talents long into his career; he has a near-supernatural gift for locating sites of aesthetic turbulence in any given situation and magnifying them for maximum hilarity. This gift is gloriously displayed in This Filthy World, based on a live show and documentary film that first ran in 2006 and is now set to reach Sacramento next month on a new national tour, fully revamped for our current tasteless times. The special covers a lifetime of surreal experiences and questionable interests that have made John Waters a true American original, from off-putting art to shocking crimes and seedy celebrity scandals, from the life-giving force of B-movie energy to the local folks of Baltimore that inspired some of his more outrageous on-screen characters. And in our age of particularly virulent outrage, he manages to embody the nicer side of nasty.

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This Filthy World is the topic of the day, but I have to say that one of my favorite pre-Christmas stocking stuffers is your top10 favorite film-of-the-year list. Your reviews are always more exciting than the trailer. Thank you. It always gets a lot of attention, because it’s the very first top 10 list that comes out—ArtForum publishes it on Dec. 1, and most lists come out on Jan. 1. So I get a lot of bang for my buck, pushing movies that mostly aren’t on anyone’s 10-best lists. Whenever I doubt whether film still has the capacity to shock, you always manage to find the ones that do. Well, I try to surprise the audience, and so I try to pick films that would surprise me. I didn’t think I was gonna really like Joker, but I really did, so I was happy to put that in there, too. And I’m happy to remember that Todd [Phillips] , the director, started out making the GG Allin documentary, called Hated. So I love that he really clawed his way to the top and somehow got Joker through the Hollywood system. What’s usually the moment in a film for you when you realize you’re watching something special? Well, I can usually tell right away. If you’re watching a movie, and you don’t like it 40 minutes into it, you’re not gonna like it. And usually, if it’s in my 10-best list, it’s the kind I like better and better as it goes on. Or, I’m so troubled by it, that I don’t know if I hate it or like it, which would definitely be one that was on my 2019 list, The Golden Glove, the one about the serial killer. Oh God, that movie is really a shocker; I couldn’t tell how I felt about it. I decided it’s worth seeing, and it’s incredibly well done, but it’s very, very unpleasant to watch. Has anything changed radically in the state of filth since you last did the show? Well of course! With this president. You can’t really do a show called This Filthy World today without doing some filthy stuff about Trump, because he talks about people filthily, too, so I think it’s fair game. And I always say afterwards what a great country it is that I can say some of this stuff and not get the firing squad. Has it gotten more or less crazy today as it was in the ‘60s and ‘70s when you were starting out? I don’t think it has. I don’t get why there aren’t demonstrations every day! When I grew up, it seemed like even Nixon wasn’t this bad, and there were riots every day, there were bombings and carjackings, there was a lot of protests. Compared to that, I don’t see that much today. What happened to all the good kids who were walking out of school, how come they’re not? Why aren’t the bad kids walking out? The Women’s March is just one day a year—it should be everyday! Do you think, for that earlier generation, it took growing up mostly in a cocoon of solid middle class sensibility and stability to really cause the political panic and urgency of what came in the next decade when things turned out different? The ‘50s were a terrible time! People don’t remember that. Everybody had to be alike, everything was supposed to be like Father Knows Best ... oh, it was horrible! It was probably the worst decade that I grew up in. Yes, we had good cars, and rock ‘n’ roll was invented, and a lot of good things happened, but it was all because of how stupefyingly square the world was. Yeah, it was a very different time. I don’t look back at it and think, “Oh God, I wish it was like that.” I think it was better in some ways, and worse in others. I don’t think that kids aren’t having just as much fun today as I did when I was young, being hackers, or whatever it takes to be a juvenile delinquent today. Being a filth icon, do you have people constantly sending or sharing with you the latest nasty things to come up from the internet or in culture? Sometimes, but mostly my fans are smart, and they give me great presents. I know what you mean; there’s things like, you know, people have eaten shit in front of me, or taken out their Tampax and asked me to autograph it. But they’re all doing it in good humor. They all mean well, all of them. I’ve never really had anybody do anything that truly offended me. I mean, I think it was kind of funny.

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Have you come across anything recently that threw you for a loop? Well, I don’t really understand the plushy thing. You know, I went into a leather bar they have in Baltimore, and I’m still amazed that they have a leather bar left open, because young people don’t need to be tied up ‘cause they’re gay—they’re mostly just happy with it. And there were plushies there. Plushy S&M?! So I guess the plushy fetish I don’t get. I never liked stuffed animals anyway. Much less would I want to be one or fuck one. And adult babies, I’m not marching for them, either. And there’s ecosexuals! I talk a lot about this in my show. Ecosexuals bury themselves naked and kiss the earth, lick plants while people dance around. To each their own. I guess with any of it, people have to eroticize whatever body type they end up with. Maybe that’s good. How did you develop your sense of what is wrong, taste-wise? I was raised very much to have good taste, what my parents thought was good taste. And the tyranny of good taste is what I rebelled against. But I thank them and acknowledge them in my new book, Mr. Know-It-All. I thank them for giving me the impression of good taste so I could rebel and make a career out of bad taste. But I think to appreciate bad taste, in the right way, you have to know what good taste is, and actually have good taste to appreciate it. Because “bad” bad taste, well, that’s the Trump White House. There’s nothing funny about how they decorated, there’s nothing campy; it’s just bad Jeff Koons.

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In some sense, do we need a bland, vanilla, middle class sensibility as a counterpoint in order to truly shock or get creative rebelling against it? No, definitely not. I think everybody can appreciate taboos, everybody can appreciate making fun of the rules. And every organization has rules. Liberals have more rules now than even conservatives. So, to me, I think everybody understands making fun of their own rules, and that’s how you keep a sense of humor, if you can make fun of your own rules. If you can’t, then I think you somehow become the enemy. In that sense, with all the new rules and the way things have shifted, do you think it would be a lot tougher for a renegade beginner in art such as you were to enter into the fray now? No, I think it could still happen. I think I made fun of myself first; I criticized everything I did first. I called my first movie Mondo Trasho! I think I make fun of myself, therefore I can make fun of the rules with, like, the gay world, or political correctness, even though I think I am technically politically correct. I do make fun of the fact that it seems to be just for rich people. You know, all this obsession about political correctness. A lot of it I agree with, but the radical ends of political correctness is why Trump is gonna win again. Even your most extreme work doesn’t seem too mean-spirited. Is lightheartedness the key to being as filthy as you want? Well, I don’t think I’m mean; I guess I’m mean about Trump. But most of the things I criticize are things that I like! I make fun of the art world because I like the elitism of the art world. I make fun of obscure art movies because I love feel-bad European films. I’m making fun of things I love, which is a very different turn than making fun of things you hate. What other topics can we expect in the new edition of This Filthy World? Well, I certainly talk about politics. I talk about humor, I talk about fashion, I talk about death, I talk about life. I think it’s a lot of equal-opportunity topics that I go over throughout the show. And it’s not just what’s in the book, it’s always changing. The skeleton of it may be the same, a little bit, and I do go through the movies, but it’s not so much anecdotes about making them anymore, it’s what’s happened to them—the subjects in them and what’s changed—that somehow, these movies are respectable now. Which is amazing to me ... This week on Turner Classic Movies, they’re showing Multiple Maniacs! How could that be possible? John Waters’ This Filthy World Tour comes to the Crest Theatre (1013 K St., Sacramento) on Friday, Feb. 28 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased in advance through Crestsacramento.com.

Issue 310 • January 29 – February 12, 2020

PAST IS PROLOGUE

THE SEAFLOOR CINEMA TAKES EMO INTO THE NEXT DECADE WORDS TYLER HORST • PHOTO JADE GREENBURG

nthony OnFire walks into the building looking like a time traveler from the year 2008. His long, highlighter-colored hair is chopped up into anime character proportions, with bangs held back by a sweatband. His left wrist is practically weighted down by a nest of rubber bracelets, a la the Livestrong craze. When he sits down, he actually has to jump up for a second and pull something out of his back pocket—he’s accidentally sat down on a Game Boy Advance Pokémon game cartridge. “I’m stuck,” OnFire admits. “Everybody gets stuck at some point in their lives.” OnFire and Neil Valencia are at a café to discuss their band, The Seafloor Cinema. The other members, Justin Murry and Douglas Andreasen, can’t make it tonight. Like OnFire’s look, the band takes some of their inspiration from the bands of emo and posthardcore’s heyday in the mid-to-late aughts—bands like Fall of Troy, Good Charlotte or Kurt Travis-era Dance Gavin Dance. But the band isn’t just stuck in the past. Their latest album,

A Metaphor for Honesty, blends these nostalgic influences with forward-thinking math-rock riffs and a strong sensibility for catchy melodies. Or, put more simply: “We like to cry. That’s our biggest inspiration,” says OnFire. Just to clear things up, when asked about his name, OnFire says, “It’s an ancient Toltec surname. I got it from my ancestors the Mayans after they rejected the Spanish.” Pause for effect. “It’s totally made up,” he admits. “It’s fun though.” “Anthony is kind of an insane person a lot of the time,” guitarist Andreasen says later on the phone, laughing. “I’m the one to bring him back down to ground level.” The Seafloor Cinema actually began as a solo project for Andreasen. Inspired by bands like Covet, Andreasen wrote and released two instrumental math-rock songs as an EP called Wherever You Are. After the songs started gaining traction online, Andreasen decided to fill out the band with Murry on bass and

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Valencia on drums. “We were all instrumental. Never thought about singing at all,” says Valencia. “Until Justin hits us with, ‘Yeah I can try singing.’ He sings in front of us and we’re like, ‘Why didn’t you sing at first?’” Murry sings on the majority of the record, belting out melodies or softly crooning in the verses. OnFire—who didn’t join until last summer, right before the band went to Minnesota to record A Metaphor for Honesty with Tiny Moving Parts producer Gregory Lindholm—takes center stage for two emotive spoken word interludes. Though A Metaphor for Honesty was just released last August, The Seafloor Cinema is already planning to hit the studio several times this year, both for a run of singles and an entirely new album. “Basically, Doug is a psycho maniac superfiend, and because he’s straight-edge, he has all these magic powers where he can write three songs and mix and master them in one day,” explains OnFire.

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Photo above by Eric Molyneaux But it takes more than prolific creativity to keep the band in the studio so often. They also need money. For that, The Seafloor Cinema have discovered an unlikely business model. “Twisted Sister used to frequent around and play different clubs as a cover band, and they made a lot of money, and that’s how they paid for their album and got famous. Basically, we took a cue from them, but we do Emo Night,” says OnFire. When they’re not playing their own songs, The Seafloor Cinema is packing rooms covering the likes of Panic! (when they still had the exclamation mark) At the Disco and Fall Out Boy for crowds of nostalgic millennials. Andreasen says the band was introduced to an Emo Night promoter named Marcus Leonardo through Sacramento-area bookers Bit Crusher. The band tried it out for a night and it was an instant success. Andreasen says Leonardo asked them to keep coming back for more Emo Nights, and even put them on the Emo Night tour. This year, The Seafloor Cinema is going as far as New York to play Emo Night shows. They get to play some of their own songs throughout the sets, plus they say they sell a lot of merch and tickets and squirrel away the proceeds for recording the next album. The best part is they schedule their own tours around the Emo Night dates. While other bands might shy away from doing covers, Valencia, OnFire and Andreasen agree that not only have the Emo Night shows been a huge boon to the band’s success, they’re also just a lot of fun to play. “Venues treat you like a rockstar,” Andreasen says about playing Emo Night shows. The Seafloor Cinema has also expanded its reach online thanks to a collaboration with Boketo Media, an effort by YouTuber Jarrod Alonge to give an online platform to up-and-coming artists. At publication, their video for “In the Future There Will Be 500 Channels but Nothing to Watch” has over 17,000 views on the Boketo YouTube Channel. If you’re a fan of The Seafloor Cinema, you may not realize that you are part of a club with a creative name. OnFire, who runs the band’s Twitter account, put out a poll in October 2019 asking, “What should we call our fans?” An overwhelming 74 percent of fans voted to call themselves “Pissbabies.” If nothing else, The Seafloor Cinema is having fun, and their Pissbaby fans are having fun with them. They’re still young, and with the winds of Emo Night and Boketo at their back, the band is sailing ever onward. No matter where The next Pissbaby gathering will be Thursday, they end up, they Feb. 6 at the Boardwalk (9426 Greenback say it’s all worth it Lane, Orangevale), where The Seafloor to write songs with Cinema is opening for Japanese math-rockers friends and hope they Paranoid Void, along with Enter:Villain and connect to someone, Predisposed. Show is all ages and begins at 6:30 p.m. You can also catch The Seafloor somewhere, someday. Cinema at The Starlet Room (2708 J St., “In the end, it Sacramento) on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. probably doesn’t For more information on these shows, visit matter, just put it out,” Facebook.com/theseafloorcinema. says OnFire. SubmergeMag.com

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HOWEVER IT FALLS

THOMAS CAMPBELL WAXES POETIC ABOUT HIS LIFE OF ART, FILM AND SKATEBOARDING AND HIS DYSTOPIAN NEW SKATE FILM, YE OLDE DESTRUCTION WORDS BAILEY SNOW

homas Campbell is a Renaissance man for misfits. He is a skater, a photographer, a filmmaker, an artist and a bunch of other shit. Most people want to do one thing as well as he does all of these things. Growing up in Dana Point, California, where he says “pretty much every boy and girl rode skateboards,” Campbell was exposed to it at a young age, something he credits with sparking his career and creativity, which for him is one and the same. “I started skateboarding when I was 5 and now I’m 50 and I’m really happy for where skateboarding is,” he explains. “I don’t care about contests or Olympics or any of that shit. I just really like that kids are openminded and skating wildly amazingly. That’s such a cool moment, you know?” Uncompromising and singular, he says he “cannot bring [himself] to not make the thing that [he wants] to see.” “I will make an hour-long film and not give a fuck,” Campbell says. “However it falls, it falls.” In the past, skate media was elusive, and when you actually got your hands on some, you held onto it until the end of time. These days, however, skate videos are readily available. Videos of tricks thought to be impossible 20 years ago are a YouTube search away. Yet, somehow, it all feels so sanitized, corporate and clickbait-y. Ye Olde Destruction, Campbell’s newest film, is none of those things. Raw, energetic and lively, it could just as easily be playing in the MoMA as on a VHS player behind the counter of your local skate shop. It is an art film for skaters, and a skate film for artists. Imagine if Larry Clark and David Lynch took some shrooms and went skateboarding together. Now imagine that in black and white. Ye Olde Destruction will be premiering in Sacramento on Feb. 6 at Midtown BarFly. The soundtrack will be scored live by Tommy Guerrero, Matt Rodriguez, Lee Bob Watson and Josh Lippi. Be there. And bring your board.

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How’d you initially get started within skateboarding? Was there any particular incident that drew you to it or was it just kind of a natural thing? When I was a kid in the ‘70s, it was just kind of a boom, and where I lived there were hills, and my street was a really good one. Everyone would come to skate on my street. There was a quarter pipe back at the top of the hill, and at the bottom of the hill there was a drainage ditch. What was it like making A Love Supreme [Supreme’s first skate video, released in 1995]? And how’d you initially link up with Supreme? Back then, every hypebeast wasn’t lining up for their T-shirts, they were just a skate shop. I was skating with those guys and shooting pictures of the guys that rode for Supreme, and I was friends with the guys who worked at the shop. I grew up in California, and I always liked all types of music from punk rock and jazz and indie rock. But when I moved to New York, I dove way deeper into jazz. I love that Coltrane record, A Love Supreme, and I just had an idea and ran it by those guys and they were into it. The day I started filming A Love Supreme was the first day that I ever used the 16mm cameras. So, that was the beginning of my journey that I’m still on today … What inspired you to shoot in 16mm? I just feel like it’s a super visceral medium; it’s not lo-fi, it’s not super hi-fi. You have this nice area where you can get a lot of emotions from the film grain and the way the film dances. And I feel like it captures an emotional range really well. And it’s been my dancing partner. It does a lot for mood and ambience, and film innately adds a lot of dimension. It’s probably coming to an end because the problem is you can still get film, but the people that fix the cameras are dying and/or retiring and there’s no one to fix them. It’s kind of going toward obsolescence. Like one of my main cameras, I can’t get fixed. I have this film and then I have a surf film coming up that are predominantly [16mm]. Ye Olde Destruction is probably 90 percent. There’s, like, the drone footage and a few minor things that weren’t on film. The mix of skaters you had was really diverse. You’ve got old schoolers like Ray [Barbee] and you’ve got people like Ishod [Wair] who are much more modern, technical skaters. Did having such a mix of different skaters affect the making of the film? A lot of how I see the skateboarding is just like whatever’s there, just go skate it, you know? And that’s how I’ve always looked at it. And I think, like, the divisiveness in the ‘90s when there was tech skaters, gnar bowl skaters and vert skaters. SubmergeMag.com

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And now you see people like Evan Smith that approach skating like they don’t give a shit. They’re just, “I’m gonna wall ride, 180 out off this thing, then I’m gonna switch crooked grind this handrail.” That really inspired me to want to document it more. I always liked the idea of just getting unique people together and seeing what can happen from people being together. It really had a lot of people who personally wanted to be there. You know, skating DIY in general is not super gnarly. What you see in a magazine is really less than 1 percent of how people normally skateboard. Most people just aren’t very good at skateboarding and are not hitting super gnarly stuff because people don’t have that skill level. Is it cool to see guys at the highest level pushing things into stratospheric areas? Of course it is, but it’s not what the mass of people are doing. And I think that laughing and having fun with your friends and doing stupid shit is what skateboarding is about. You also made a photo book that accompanies Ye Olde Destruction. Did making the book come naturally in the making of the film or were there additional challenges you had to face? I just always wanted to make a book with it because I knew in the making of the film, I was getting all my friends, like Brian Gaberman and Jai Tanju and French Fred and Arto Saari and different people to come on the trips and they’re all insane photographers. I just knew we were gonna end up with just an incredible body of images. I liked that format, too, so people can have something physical to connect them with the project and I think it turned out really cool. How do you think social media has changed the face of skate photography and filming? It’s changed the face of everything. I think kids are communicating on a much

shorter wavelength. I’m 50. I have a much different idea of what I want to do with my time than the kids now. And I think the length of my film really speaks to that. Like, I know a skater that went, “Uh, I can’t really watch things that go over four minutes.” I could go into, “I think that that’s fucked,” but it’s their life, and they’re impacted by the way things are going. And I look at the analytics on my films online and people have such short attention spans. I’ll make little clips that are three to seven minutes and people generally don’t watch over a minute of them; things are just simply changing and that’s all there is to it. And I hope the best for everyone, but I’ve just got to do the things I got to do. It’s funny you say that; having the artist’s vision where you don’t compromise for anything. Going off of art, how did you initially start painting? Oh, I mean, I think just being an artist is gained from being in skateboarding. You know, like getting Thrasher and seeing Neil Blender and Todd Swank’s work, and just being, like, “All those guys are having fun. I wanna have fun. Let’s try it.” I think skateboarders have a lot going for them just because of the nature of skateboarding. You fall and then you fall and then you fall. Then maybe you make something and then you fall again. And failing is normal. If failing is normal, then that’s cool, because life is hugely about not succeeding. So you’re just psyched on the process, and you know how to persevere when you’re a skateboarder. I honestly give everything in my life to skateboarding. You know, what happens if I fucking play tennis? So yeah, my art really came from that and my approach to everything came from my inspiration from being in that culture. There’s not that many things that are that physically visceral that ground you in that way. You have actual trauma, you know? You have no one to

blame; it’s you not nose-grinding properly. It’s you figuring out the weight distribution and how your tricks are going to be performed. You’re like, “OK, I’m going to be up there. I need to put my weight on the back foot and have the pressure more on the toe side. And then the front foot kinda does this.” But it’s problem solving and it has consequences. And then it’s tied into so many creative outlets like music and art and graphics; there’s just so much dimension. What’s inspired you lately? I think what’s probably inspiring and de-inspiring me the most is our current situation on this planet, where … our world views [are] nationalistic. We’re living on a planet, a round sphere, and we’re fucking this planet up. All these imaginary lines that are drawn all over the Earth by corporations that call themselves companies, we have to get beyond that and look at this Earth as the cellular process that it is. And people are so worried about being Americans and not being humans on the Earth or any country for that matter. We need to get beyond it. The movie’s not overtly political, but it has a dystopian feeling to it and that fear and tension is expressed within it. Our current political scenario with this fucking Cheeto in office and all this shit, it’s definitely inspiring me and motivating my creative process and my want to communicate and express about what’s going on. I have a 3-year-old daughter, and I’m just thinking about her future and I’m scared. We need to talk about it. It’s important.

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Catch the Sacramento premiere of Ye Olde Destruction, with live score provided by Tommy Guerrero, Matt Rodriguez, Josh Lippi and Lee Bob Watson, at Midtown BarFly (1119 21st St., Sacramento) on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. DJ Juan Love (AKA John Cardiel) will also provide tunes for the event. For more info, go to Facebook.com/tommyguerreromusic.

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1.29 WEDNESDAY

Cafe Colonial Wu Tang Wednesdays, 4 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s The Lil’ Smokies, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. The Pour Choice Daniel Roholt & JT Lawrence, 6:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub ALT 94.7 Music Discovery Series feat. Michigander, Verno, DJ Zephyr, 7 p.m. The Press Club Jonah Matranga, Show Me Golden, Minor Fiasco, 8 p.m. The Starlet Room Blues & Bourbon: Dana Moret, 5:30 p.m. Torch Club JonEmery & The Unconventionals, 9 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Redwood Room Nooner w/ Team Money Gang, 12 p.m.

1.30 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Xavier Omar, Parisalexa, 7 p.m. The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Gene Barnett, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m. Harlow’s The Fred Eaglesmith Show, 7 p.m. Kupros Robert Kuhlmann, 7 p.m. Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Quince Ensemble, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides The Weekend: A Prequel with DJ Luckey, 9 p.m. The Pour Choice Deidra Hall, 6:30 p.m. The Press Club Dandelion Massacre, John Underwood & Friends, Greg Rekus, 8 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; City of Trees Brass Band, Lantz Lazwell & The Vibe Tribe, 9 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Ballroom Silent Disco w/ DJs Hopkins.fun, Mos, Kak & More, 7:30 p.m.

1.31 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades In Uterus (Nirvana Tribute), Alice in the Garden (Soundgarden/Alice in Chains Tribute), Corduroy (Pearl Jam Tribute), 7 p.m. Armadillo Music Sensei Joshu, 2K, 8 p.m. Big Sexy Brewing Co. Andrew Castro, 6 p.m. The Boardwalk It’s Not A Phase: An Emo, Pop Punk, & Post Hardcore Party Feat.Jordan Blake, Sadghost, Apollo’s Key, 6:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial Wastewalker, Bavmorda, GreyBush, Exile’s Erosion, 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. The Club Car Private Criminals, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Howard Jones, Rachael Sage, 6:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Mere Mortals, 9 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Playback the Hits, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Scotty McConaha, Jereme Greene, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Drake Bell, Zach Van Dyck, 6 p.m. Harris Center The Nell & Jim Band, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Boulevard, Blckbrd, Bad Company Only, Teddy C, LV, Tribe, Chonnie Gold, 6:30 p.m. Kupros Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Joey Alexander Trio, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Spektral Quartet, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Dive Bar Bombers, Higher Mansions, Would-Be Train Robbers, 9 p.m. On the Y Embryonic Devourment, Cursed, Sever All, Short Fuse, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Chill, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. PJ’s Roadhouse Revolver (Rage Against The Machine Tribute), Stellar (Incubus Tribute), Third Eye Spiral (TOOL Tribute), 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Patrick Walsh, 8 p.m. The Pour Choice Jasmine Bailey, 6:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Grooveline, 10 p.m.

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The Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. The Starlet Room Dogleg, Glass Beach, 6 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort The Green, Ka’ikena Scanlan, 7:30 p.m. Tilted Mash Brewing Burning Daylight People, 6 p.m. Torch Club Jimmy Pailer & Co., 5:30 p.m.; Joy & Madness, 9 p.m. Two Rivers Cider Co. Farrow and the Peach Leaves, 6 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Queensryche, John 5, Eve To Adam, Trigger Effect, 6 p.m. Auburn State Theatre Keith Greeninger & Dayan Kai, 7:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Jessica Malone Duo, 3 p.m. Cafe Colonial Spark8 Artist Showcase, 7 p.m. The Club Car Jax Hammer, 8 p.m. The Colony Anxious Arms (Video Shoot), Fake It, Mourning Mountains, Paper Airplanes, 6:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Foreverland (Michael Jackson Tribute), 6:30 p.m. Davis Odd Fellows Hall The Sam Chase and the Untraditional, Jessica Malone, 7 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Remix, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Empty Wagon, Lovelorn, 9 p.m. Harlow’s The Purple Ones (Prince Tribute), 9 p.m. Holy Diver Hunny, Verno, 7 p.m. Laughs Unlimited X Cons, 3:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge The Fryed Brothers Band, 9 p.m. Memorial Auditorium 1812 Overturer: Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, 7 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Spektral Quartet, 9:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Lipstick w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter & Roger Carpio, 9 p.m. On the Y Hellway Patrol, Banger, Sky Pig and More, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Angel From Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt Tribute), 8 p.m. Placerville Public House Joe Lev and Friends, 8 p.m. The Pour Choice Abandon Theory, 6:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Spazmatics, 10 p.m. The Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. SacYard Community Tap House Home B4 Dark, 6 p.m. p.m.

Shine Instagon’s 27th Anniversary Show w/ Grex & Nam The Giver, 8 p.m. The Side Door Eric Anderson & Scarlet Rivera, 7 p.m. The Silver Orange Sanity Aisle, Under Ego, Brain Death, 6 p.m. Torch Club The Dey Trippers, 5:30 p.m.; John Clifton Blues Band, 9 p.m.

2.02 SUNDAY

Berryessa Brewing Co. Scott Guberman, 2 p.m. The Boardwalk The Classic Crime, Assuming We Survive, Keith Anthony Gray, Western Spies & the Kosmonaut, Zendegi, 6:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial 10th Annual Super Bowl Party w/ Kill the Precedent, Gentleman Jimmy, 3 p.m. The Colony Valkyrie Missile, McCadden Place, Wasteful, Danger Escape, Fonty, 7:30 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Roni Yadao, 3 p.m. Harlow’s Radical Face, Axel Flóvent, 6 p.m. Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Contra Dance w/ Sacramento Country Dance Society, 1 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Russ Room at Solomon’s Record Club Brunch w/ DJ Roderick, 11 a.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

2.03 MONDAY

Ace of Spades American Authors, Magic Giant, 6:30 p.m. Harris Center: A Cappella Live! feat. Committed, The Filharmonic, Blake Lewis, Women of the World, 7:30 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. The Russ Room at Solomon’s Cool Kidz ‘80s Dance Party w/ DJ Roderick, 8 p.m.

2.05 WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades Lil Tjay, 7 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Grateful Shred, 7 p.m. Holy Diver Mustard Plug, The Toasters, Flip The Switch, Ants in My Eyes Johnson, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. The Pour Choice Seth Grauer & Friends, 6:30 p.m. Shine Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. The Starlet Room Blues & Bourbon: Albert Castiglia, 5:30 p.m. Torch Club O’Mally Sisters, 5:30 p.m.; Wild Wild Wets, The No. 44, PETS, My Dallas Teens, 8:30 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Redwood Room Nooner w/ Humble Wolf, 12 p.m.

2.06 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades The Marcus King Band, Dee White, 7 p.m. The Boardwalk Paranoid Void, The Seafloor Cinema, Enter: Villan, Predisposed, Grayed Blue, 6 p.m. Cafe Colonial Marty Taters Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Patrick Walsh, 7 p.m.; DJ Uncle Hank w/ Karoake, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Irish Jam Session w/ Stepping Stone, 8 p.m. Goldfield Black Uhuru, Etana, Empress Niko and the Lion’s Paw, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center A.J. Croce, 7:30 p.m. Kupros Joseph Kojima Gray, 7 p.m. The Pour Choice Ben Wysong, 6:30 p.m. The Press Club Scraper, Jesus & the Dinosaurs, Trinidad Silva, 8 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Drunken Kung Fu, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Chris Lane, Blanco Brown, Ernest, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) B Street at The Sofia Joe Craven & the Sometimers, 6 p.m. Big Sexy Brewing Co. JT Lawrence (of Pine Street Ramblers), 6 p.m. The Boardwalk 96 Bitter Beings, The Native Howl, Dads Under Where, Blacksheep, The Outside, 6 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. El Dorado Saloon FooTube, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Surfer Joe, The Me Gustas, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Midnight Players, 9 p.m. Holy Diver Kingdom of Giants, Lucrecia, Petroglyphs, HellHeart, In Chaos, 6:30 p.m. Kupros Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.

On the Y Judhead, Skyline Red, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Mere Mortals, Sock Monkeys, 9:30 p.m. Palms Playhouse Stevie Redstone, 7:30 p.m. PJ’s Roadhouse Paranoid Void, Mookatite, Hypha, Wandern, 7 p.m. The Pour Choice Brad Hoshaw, 6:30 p.m. The Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Shine Shelby Murray, Brian Hanover, Evan Bailey, 8 p.m. The Side Door The Vintage Find, 7 p.m. Spotlight Ballroom Swing Dance to Big Band: The Crescent Katz, 8 p.m. The Starlet Room Niviane, Failure by Proxy, Cloudship, Damaged Things, 8 p.m. Torch Club Jimmy Pailer & Co., 5:30 p.m.; Tropicali Flames, 9 p.m. Two Rivers Cider Co. Shotgun Slim, 6 p.m.

2.08 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Ultimate ‘80s Party Featuring Tiffany, 8 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Muddy Waders, 2 p.m. The Boardwalk Zackthevillain, Lonely Valentine, Grimyboi, King Theta, Skeletxrn, Jp, Dead Homie, Wiski, Baku, 7 p.m. Cafe Colonial Your Friends, Joan and the Rivers, Vinnie Guidera & the Dead Birds, Pink Frank, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Steelin’ Dan (Steely Dan Tribute), 6:30 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon 8 Track Massacre, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Character. & The Method Actors, Mr. P Chill, Madame Z, J.Smo, Mike Colossal, 9 p.m. Goldfield Tarrus Riley, Dean Fraser and Blak Soil Band, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Shannon McCabe’s Mardi Gras Masked Ball: The Double X Brass Band, Clemon Charles, DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ Norman Stradley, and More, 6 p.m. Holy Diver Blacktop Mojo, Roswell, Among the First, Soulwood, 7 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Groove Deluxe Band, 3:30 p.m. Old Ironsides The Moans, Doc Rotten, Lamonta, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon When Doves Cry (Prince Tribute), 9:30 p.m. Phono Select American Maw, Sissyfit, Knee Deep, 6 p.m. Placerville Public House Old Mule, 8 p.m. The Pour Choice Misner & Smith, 6:30 p.m. The Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Russ Room at Solomon’s Disco Brunch w/ DJ Shaun Slaughter, 11 .m. The Side Door The Gold Souls, 7 p.m. Torch Club Empty Wagon, 5:30 p.m.; Katie Henry, 9 p.m.

2.09 SUNDAY

Ace of Spades Phora, 7 p.m. Auburn State Theatre Iris DeMent, 7:30 p.m. (Sold Out) Berryessa Brewing Co. Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong, 2 p.m. Crest Theatre Alan Parsons, 6:30 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert: Carlos & Brennen feat. Robin Fisher, 3 p.m.

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2.10 MONDAY

Goldfield World / Inferno Friendship Society, The Bridge City Sinners, Dandelion Massacre, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Pinegrove, Lake, 6 p.m. Holy Diver Grayscale, Hot Mulligan, WSTR, Lurk, 6 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m.

2.11 TUESDAY

B Street at The Sofia Avery*Sunshine Trio, 7:30 p.m. Goldfield Melvins, Hepa. Titus, Cunts, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Caspian, The Velvet Teen, 7 p.m. Kupros Kyle Rowland, 5 p.m. The Pour Choice Matt Brennan, 6:30 p.m. Torch Club William Mylar Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Sactown Playboys, 8 p.m.

2.12 WEDNESDAY

The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Steel Pulse, 6:30 p.m. Goldfield Horrorpops, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center Al Di Meola, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Bodysnatcher, Great American Ghost, Born a New, Distinguisher, The Willow, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. The Starlet Room Blues & Bourbon: Matt Rainey & the Dippin’ Sauce, 5:30 p.m. Torch Club Ballin’ That Jack, 5:30 p.m.; Shoofly Complex, 9 p.m.

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THE SHALLOW END Have you been keeping up with the Senate Impeachment Trial? I’m not asking so I can judge you. It’s cool if you have; it’s equally cool if you haven’t. I’ve been listening to bits and pieces of it on NPR as I drive around, and caught Adam Schiff’s closing arguments on YouTube. Honestly, it’s a lot of stuff we know already—a lot of stuff that’s been kicked around the media like a political football and even admitted to by members of the executive branch. It’s one of the downsides of living in such an information-rich age. I listened one evening as Mr. Schiff laid out the timeline of the events that precipitated the impeachment of the 45th U.S. President and marveled at the compelling and damning narrative. I wondered, as others have, what it would have been like if we hadn’t been given this info in dribs and drabs, as we had with the Mueller Report, and if all of this was just dumped on us en-masse. Would the majority of the country who approve of impeachment and removal be even wider? I guess it’s ridiculous to speculate. Even though we can be reasonably sure how this political drama will play out—since the Republicans in charge have basically already told us how it will, and there’s no reason to

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believe that they’re lying to us or, you know, have souls—it’s certainly interesting to tune in to see the inner workings of our government. It’s still our government after all. We can complain all we want about who we have representing us in Washington, but remember, we’re the ones who sent them there. That is, if you vote. And if you don’t, well, OK … now I’m judging you. What’s most interesting about this whole impeachment trial, to me anyway, is that we’re seeing how our senators react—on both sides of the aisle—when they actually have to work. As per the rules of the trial, they’re not allowed to talk, drink coffee or use cell phones. I’d imagine the first one would have to be the toughest for them. Hemming and hawing is kinda their schtick. For the most part, I guess they’ve been toeing the company line. They’ve been quiet—that’s for sure. As Mr. Schiff hammered away at President Trump, you heard nary a yip out of presidential lap dog Lindsay Graham. If anything good has come out of this impeachment so far, I guess it’s that we’ve received respite from his inane word salad for a brief while. It’s about as close as we can come to bliss in these trying times.

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JAMES BARONE jb@submergemag.com They’ve even been paying attention, for the most part, even though I’m not sure that’s something that’s deserving of praise. Mr. Schiff gave the senators a shout out as he began his closing arguments one night for being so attentive and respectful. It’s like when the kindergarteners don’t eat the paste. Hey, at least it’s something. Maybe they’ll all go home with attentiveness trophies. It’s cool. The taxpayers will pick up the tab. According to an article on Latimes.com, some of the senators are even taking notes. The article mentioned democrats Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and even a republican, Tennesee’s Lamar Alexander, have been jotting away like good girls and boys. Who knows, they may even ask pivotal and thoughtful questions when the time comes and get a gold star or something next to their names. Who doesn’t love stickers? On the other side of the coin, some senators have taken the long hours to catch up on their beauty sleep, according to the same article. Idaho republican Jim Risch caught some Zs on Tuesday and, lo and behold, so did Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (not to make excuses, but he’s, like, a billion).

My favorite story to come out of this so far, and why this whole thing feels like elementary school, is that there’s a Candy Desk on the Senate floor. It even has its own entry on Wikipedia. “In 1965, California’s George Murphy joined the Senate, and kept candy in his desk to offer his colleagues, and for himself, though eating is not allowed on the Senate floor,” the entry reads. “When he left the Senate after a sixyear term, other Republican senators maintained the custom. The nascent tradition did not become publicly known until the mid-1980s, when Washington Senator Slade Gorton disclosed it in announcing that he would be sitting at the candy desk.” The current holder of this prestigious honor is Senator Patrick Toomey, a republican from Pennsylvania who has been an outspoken opponent of LGBTQ issues. Not so sweet, I guess, but I do like the fact that there’s a hidden cache of candy on the Senate floor, and for some reason it makes sense that a republican is in charge of it. You can’t just hand out candy willy-nilly after all, even if congress has all that amazing healthcare.

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