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What up illin chilluns,

Quick note if you didn't get an email update - spurred by a discussion of bike-funk with R2 earlier, I created a Mobile Systems page on the wiki...I thought it was in documentation, but apparently it ain't. If anybody knows how to move wiki pages once created, this one should be in documentation. It provides links for how to set up bike mounted audio and projection, including GRL's Laser Tag. I have some detail pictures of our projection bike on my flickr , but it's in a private set so you have to be one of my contacts to see it. Wait, scratch that, I just realized I can add them to the MX Flickr Group - and so that's what I did.

On the mobile audio tip, there's an installment of the international Mobile Music Workshop going down as a part of the Conflux Festival in Brooklyn. They have really good documentation of the last 3 years of the workshop in the archive section of the MMW website.

Tangent: here's this live electronica band called Simian Mobile Disco, and I heard they're pretty good. They prolly have youtube vids cuz they just played some big shows in NYC.

Also let it be known that I'm already on top of the flyer for the show on the 22nd. The art is done and now that all the bands are confirmed I'm just gonna set the type and I'll post it here asap so you guys can have em printed for the show on the 8th.

Sept 22nd Update

After talking to the rest of the household and the bands involved and after the number of artists that had to drop from the lineup we have decided that we need to scale back the size of the show on the 22nd. No outdoor stage, we at least need to stay moderately chill with the neighbors, especially given the number of shows coming up in the fall season.

Looks like as it stands now its going to be an evening with:

STRENGTH (portland, confirmed)

SUGAR & GOLD (sf, confirmed)

the HARSHMELLOWZ (sc, confirmed)

the WALKING DEAD (sacremento, confirmed)

and possibly some other band that S&G knows but I think it might be 1 too many bands in that case.

Luckily the harshmellows don't have a very complicated setup, so having a staff of people that are SUPER on top of it will be the key to making this event happen smoothly. We will need tight security, permanant staffing at the top of the driveway, people manning the bar and taking money all night. We'll need a lot of help from friends, but yanno ... it'll hopefully all work out in the end.
ROCK!

Paul Sweet Shows

Yo me and Andreas are getting ready to go up to Steve's in Zayante and set up for the 2nd Ho Down of this year. Should be really fun, Andreas, we need to ask him about that Japanese arcade game, and maybe film it.

So anyways, here's the skinny with the upcoming Paul sweet shows and what we need to do to pull them off:
SEPTEMBER 8TH

THE HARSHMELLOWS
-and-
THE SERENDIPITY PROJECT
8pm $2 entry $1 beer
live art

Things we need to do:
Contact the live artists
Make flyers/print flyers/distribute flyers
Figure out the PA situation
contact security/make large security t-shirts for the burly guys to wear
make some ArKaos sets to VJ (think hip hop shit, wildstyle, breakdancing, ect)


SEPTEMBER 22nd

STRENGTH (pretty confirmed)
SUGAR & GOLD (confirmed)
THE HARSHMELLOWS (confirmed)
THE WALKING DEAD (confirmed)
5 DAYS DIRTY (50% confirmed)
DJ SUBLIMINALZ (not confirmed)
K-FLAY (not confirmed)
HAROOT (confirmed)

2 STAGES!
(BIG room/paul sweet parking lot)

Live art/Glassblowing/Visuals (pretty confirmed)

Things we need to do to make this happen:
Confirm all the partially confirmed guests
Book round the clock parking duty/maybe even a shuttle from Toys'R Us?
Make sick flyers and get em out before August 30th (theres a house party august 31st with harshmellows and serendipity project, it would be great to get flyers out to everyone with all the confirmed details)
Hire more security than at the 8th
have a change box with change in it
set up another glassblowing area/live spary art outside
Get the Dual PA situation under control
Have lots of hands around to help