Grouch Droppings

Review: The State Reunion at SF Sketchfest

2009-01-27T12:00:00.000-08:00

For a brief couple of years in the mid-90s, The State was our religion -- a lot like The Grateful Dead, Zep, or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for prior generations -- only preaching absurdist comedy instead of guitars and beards. Unless you count the Bearded Men of Space Station 11. Of our great generation, a few hundred of us trekked the pilgrimage to SF's annual Sketchfest to witness the reunion of our pop-culture Gods at the intimate Eureka Theatre.

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Game Preview: Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party

2008-10-30T14:52:00.001-07:00

Unlike the beer-swilling Monday Night Football get-togethers made famous by Black Flag's original "TV Party," UbiSoft's TV Party is much more engaging and active, with over 60 mini-games that will have you and three friends flailing your limbs about in ridiculous fashion.

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Review: Sarah Silverman at Nob Hill Masonic Center

2008-09-08T12:12:00.000-07:00

Silverman recalled the time when she attended a fundraiser for Barack Obama and asked him if he encountered any racism while going to school in Boston. “He said something really interesting. He said, ‘Um, I’m Kanye West.’ And I was like, wow, I totally got it. Yeah, I’m Kanye West, too.”

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Outside Lands Festival: Radiohead Set List

2008-08-25T20:36:00.001-07:00

Technical issues aside, Radiohead threw down a momentous set on day one of Outside Lands. The blokes delivered a 22-track powerhouse spanning the majority of their career, including the entire In Rainbows album sans only two tracks. Being the intrepid reporters we are (as well as Radiohead enthusiasts), we've compiled the entire set list through memory. Here it goes:

1. 15 Step
2. Reckoner
3. Airbag (sound cut out briefly)
4. There There
5. All I Need (sound cut out)
6. Nude
7. Talk Show Host
8. National Anthem
9. The Gloaming
10. Videotape
11. Weird Fishes
12. Idioteque
13. Karma Police
14. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
15. Just
16. Exit Music for a Film
17. Bodysnatchers
18. Pyramid Song
19. You and Whose Army? (Genuine moment: Thom Yorke messes up by laughing at his eyeball close-up on the video screen.)
20. Paranoid Android
21. Fake Plastic Trees
22. Everything in its Right Place

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Hey, You're Pretty Cool: Jeremy Fish

2008-07-03T11:55:00.000-07:00

“It’s art so it’s gotta have a story, right? Here’s the art school spiel -- The show’s also about evaluating everything you’ve done in life. Are you giving up and just sinking? Are you just floating by and not giving a shit? It’s about self-evaluation." --Jeremy Fish talks about last year's "Sink or Swim" show.

Pulp Factions

2008-07-02T23:36:00.001-07:00

"Once any artist they put out experiences a huge amount of success, before they know it they're more on the executive side than they ever bargained for. It's all inevitable if we put our energy in that direction." --Saul Williams on record industry rule #4,080

Q & A: Beastie Boys

2008-07-02T23:16:00.000-07:00

"It’s very clear and it’s obviously easy for you to say the Bay Area and the Golden State Warriors have a much brighter, more promising present and future than the Knicks. You know, I’m a big fan of the B. Diddy dunk." -- Mike D on the difference between the Knicks and the Warriors.