lil events week-let - things to do
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This week offers more opportunities to get an earful, with Matmos performing at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday eve. Matmos has long toyed around with using experimental sound to create a unique, sampled orchestra. Sounds have included: pages of bibles turning, kisses, water hitting copper plates, the runout grooves of a vinyl record, liposuction surgery, violins, rat cages, field recordings of conversations in hot tubs, electrical interference generated by laser eye surgery, and latex fetish clothing. Enough to keep you interested and the imagination stirring, to say the least. Wednesday eve starting at 8PM, the San Francisco Late Night Coalition hosts a fundraiser at the Supperclub. After your 6 course dinner, lying amonst white pillows and ambient lighting, enjoy the walking masseuse options and A-list DJ's. (This Wed night includes Michael Anthony, M3, Ellen Ferrato, Laird, Late Night Sneaky, Adnan, Kepi and Kat, Smoove, and JT Donaldson.) This gig goes till 2am for the late-nighters as SFLNC's goal is to "protect, preserve and promote San Francisco's late-night culture and to make significant contributions to the economy and artistic diversity of this city." Hopefully you've long reserved your tickets for San Francisco's Free Theatre Night 2006, going on this Thursday the 19th. Free tickets for over 100 performances! If you didnt book early on; tixbayarea is still a wonderful place to find discounted and half price tickets for most major productions.
Instead of heading to L.A. this past weekend, I stayed in town and caught up with some local Bay area flava. First stop was a show at the Apocolypse Accordion Repair Shop, where Vagabond Opera rekindled a many's;Balkan music love.
Vocal cords, accordions, saxaphones, and cellos- all singing out minor melodies-- swept me into the nostalgia of Moscow past.
Thursday shifts into Web 2.0 as our understanding of internet possibilities and capabilities are redefined, again. Aloft, a virtual futuristic hotel loft, debuts in Second Lifewith a launch party from 7 to 9pm with a special appearance by Ben Folds Five. Brought to you by the owner of the Westin, Sheraton, and W chain; Ben Folds will give people a chance to be the first to hear new tracks off of his upcoming album-supersunnyspeedgraphic.To attend the launch party, send an e-mail to frontdesk@virtualaloft.com. Read more about real money in virtual worlds on this businessweek article.
Tech-tock continues as Thursday eve also offers Beta's Web 2.0 monthly mixer at Dada. Only second month in and this mixer is attracting founders, entrepreneurs, developers, bloggers, investors, journalists, and revolutionaries.This is a great networking event and this week brings Haiku Pitches from seven of the Bay Area's hottest companies including: 1. Meetro (Vinnie Lauria / VP), 2. CivicEvolution (Brian Sullivan / Founder), 3. Rooftop Comedy (Will Rogers / Co-Founder), 4. ShopCastTV (Eric Swan / Founder), 5. The Forbin Group (Cindy Phung / Worker Bee),6. BuzzShout (James Yu / Co-Founder), and 7. Diigo (Maggie Tsai / Co-Founder). Be there at 7pm and please RSVP.<
Some astrologists and tarot workers have predicted an event of Ultra Violet ray significance today--where all energies will be heightened as a "force" collides with the earth. Being of a scientific nature and a skeptic, I'm not sure how much I buy into it. But I still recon its a good enough reason to manifest and project my positive desires.
Be it an alien invasion or not, its still an opportunity to do a bit of positive work on the self. Being driven as a group unmasses great results. And as the law of attraction says: " Think it- See it- and you already Have it."
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[diggrz refers to the nomadic lifestyle offered by mobile digital technologies and gadgets - creating a "nomadig" culture. The diggrz name is also a tip-of-the-hat to some of the ideas of the Diggers, a democratic group that arose in 1649, out of the English revolution .
The Diggers were a radical group that cultivated and protected common lands, and sought to create egalitarian, self-sustaining communities. The Diggers would have found kindred spirits in today's software engineer culture, and the focus on creating commonly owned technologies through egalitarian open source community projects. - Tom Foremski]
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