Kings of SF

Poem Under the Dome & the Loin’s Mouth: Interview mp3s

jeremy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:33:19 +0000

Here are mp3s of the interviews from last Friday’s show:

Thanks again to Rachel and Charlie and Diamond Dave for making the show so darn special.

Listen to the Gender-Neutral Kings of SF radio show, featuring the League of Pissed Off Voters Radio Fishbowl, every Friday from 6-8pm on Pirate Cat Radio at 87.9 FM or streaming online at piratecatradio.com. Or come join us at the studio and cafe on the corner of 21st and Florida.

March 28th Radio Playlist

jeremy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:04:56 +0000

Daniel Lanois - Frozen
Gnarls Barkley - Who’s Gonna Save My Soul
Interview: Charlie Getter talking about Poem Under the Dome, a poetry reading in City Hall
Charlie Getter poem - Sticker
Ubidube Whitaker - Doing It Again (mp3 file)
Zeph and Azeem - That Type of Music
Ghetto Gold - Jetsetter
In God We Trust - Northern Lights
Nina Gordon - Straight Out of Compton
Interview: Rachel M. from the Loin’s Mouth zine
Blue Ribbon Glee Club - Waiting Room (YouTube video)
Minutemen - Working Men Are Pissed
J Church - Misery
Interview: More with Rachel about the Loin’s Mouth
Jim Bianco - Handsome Devil
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ramblin Man
Jimbo Mathis - Hypnotized
Bob Dylan and the Band - Going to Acapulco
League of Pissed Off Voters Radio Fishbowl: Weekly discussion of political events:
- San Francisco Budget crisis
- Shiite Civil War in Basra
Jerry Garcia Band - Mission in the Rain
Bobby Kennedy - Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King (mp3 file)
Barack Obama-Miles Davis mashup - Brewing A More Perfect Union (mp3 file 19mb) Barack’s speech on race mashed up with Miles’ song Feio form the Bitches Brew sessions.

San Francisco Weekly News Roundup

jeremy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:37:29 +0000

Cross posted at piratecatradio.com.

In this week’s edition:
- Progressives Mount Campaign to Control San Francisco Democratic Committee
- Halloween in the Castro Canceled Again?
- Mayor Refuses to Make Public His Phone Records
- Olympic Torch Will Bypass Chinatown, Protests May Be Tolerated
- Supervisors Gut Resolution Critical of China’s Human Rights Record
- Will SF Finally Be Able to Opt-Out of Examiner Delivery
- Police to Focus on the City’s Most Crime-Prone Areas

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Kleercut Interview

jeremy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:05:09 +0000

The Kings of SF are on the radio! Listen to the Gender-Neutral Kings of SF radio show, featuring the League of Pissed Off Voters Radio Fishbowl, every Friday on Pirate Cat Radio at 87.9 FM or streaming online at piratecatradio.com. Or come on down to the studio and cafe on the corner of 21st and Florida.
On Friday, March 7th, we were joined by Kate and Zoe, two student activists working on the Kleercut campaign, which is pressuring Kleenex to stop cutting down old-growth forests for the tissue. Kleenex is the only tissue brand that doesn’t use recycled paper. (The industry average is 60% recycled.) The Kleercut campaign is organizing on college campuses to get colleges to cancel their contracts with Kleenex. Listen to the interview in the player to your right, or download mp3s here:

Mary Ann has a Posse

jeremy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:57:45 +0000

For some reason, I thought this picture just screamed “Mary Ann has a posse.” This might be my all time favorite mug shot. What a great way for a forgotten actress to bounce back into the collective consciousness.

Poor Dawn Wells, the actress who played “Mary Ann” on Gilligan’s Island, was busted in Teton County, Idaho for basically a couple of roaches and empty marijuana containers.

She was sentenced Feb. 29, 2008 to five days in jail and fined $410.50. Her bemused expression speaks volumes about the absurdity of marijuana criminalization and our countries failed “war on drugs.” Kudos to you, Dawn Wells. You’ll always be a king in our books. Now somebody in Hollywood get that woman a job. She’s looking great for 69, and anyone who can strike a pose like that still has some acting left in her. And if anyone makes stickers of our image, you totally have to give us some.

Pissed Off Voters Election Night Party

jeremy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:06:31 +0000

On Super Tuesday, the San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters had an election night party at the Pirate Cat Radio studios. Here are some excerpts from what they had to say on the air as part of Pirate Cat’s Vote Fucker election special. Listen to the Gender-Neutral Kings of SF radio show on Pirate Cat Radio every Friday from 6-8pm at 87.9FM or online at piratecatradio.com. The show will include the League of Pissed Off Voters radio roundtable–a discussion of local, state and national politics.

The Great Black Friday Elf Strike of 2007

jeremy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:23:48 +0000

As promised, the United Elves Guild took their strike to the streets of San Francisco’s shopping district on Black Friday. They marched onto Powell and Market to find a veritable throng of television, print, and radio journalists waiting from them. It seemed like the media was happy to have a new twist to tack on at the end of the same, tired “look at people shopping” stories they’ve been recycling for years. For pictures of the the elves in action, see Steve Rhodes and Shellac Fanatic. Here’s a video montage of the elves doing their thing.

It was fun watching people react to the elves’ carols and chants. The typical reaction when you see a bunch of adults in elves costumes is to smile. But when those full-sized elves are chanting things like “On strike, shut it down, the North Pole is a union town,” it creates some cognitive dissonance. People would walk by with confused looks that seemed to say “why are the elves angry”? That is, the people who were paying attention. A disturbing number of people on the streets had those depressing blank expressions you see on people at the mall or the DMV or playing slot machines. And lord, were there a lot of people out there. Throngs of people grimly walking from store to store.Props to the elves for wading into that mass of consumerist humanity and opening a few eyes to the possibilities of Buy Nothing Day. And big props to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping for inspiring the Elf Strike. If you buy only one shopping-reduction movie ticket this holiday season, make sure it’s for What Would Jesus Buy, now playing at the Lumiere. And check out the cerebral, poetic side of Reverend Billy in this SFist interview and in the videos in our previous post.

Buy Nothing Day & Reverend Billy

jeremy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:10:50 +0000

Happy Buy Nothing Day, San Francisco! If you’re already sick of Christmas commercialization this year, if you’re bewildered by the fact that Walmart, Toys R Us, and other megastores are opening at 5AM today, if you’re mad as hell and can’t take it anymore, here are three things you can do about it this year:

Watch these four videos of a contemplative Reverend Billy in conversation with Chicken John and Savitri D (his wife and theatrical director), discussing San Francisco, affordable housing, the first amendment, and the dangers of consumerism and capitalism.

See the other three videos of Billy and Savitri below the jump.
Join the United Elves Guild’s strike in support of Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping:

In an unprecedented show of solidarity, the San Francisco chapter of the United Elves Guild (UEG) will pack up their tools and stage a work stoppage strike at the corner of Powell and Market Streets across from the San Francisco Centre on Friday, November 23 from noon to 1pm as part of the national annual Buy Nothing Day demonstration, a 24-hour shopping abstinence action.

Go buy a movie ticket. Kind of ironic, eh? Well, Reverend Billy’s documentary, What Would Jesus Buy, is opening in San Francisco this weekend at the Lumiere. If you don’t know the good Reverend’s work, it’s a great introduction to his hilarious and biting effort to confront America’s out-of-control consumerism. Even if you’ve already seen the film, go see it again. The higher the movie is rated this opening weekend, the more theaters across the country will pick it up. Middle America needs to see Reverend Billy. The Reverend will be attending the Saturday night performances!

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Review: Fighting For G.O.D.

marc — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:04:22 +0000

Like a Jack Chick tract for the 9/11 truth movement, Jeremy Begin and Lauren Salk’s info-comic “Fighting for G.O.D. (Gold, Oil, and Drugs)” is required toilet reading for the world’s stirring sleepers that must awaken.

Perhaps a cartoon narrative is a simplistic way to map out the Illuminati/Roman Empire/CIA global conspiracy- but it sure makes it easier to tell who’s in the Skull-N-Bones when they have see-through skulls like the Republican Zombies in They Live.

Highlights include coverage of early banking history and the legal personhood of corporations, CIA assassinations, WTO resistance- all while not treating the flyover states like retarded cattle. Good job, Jeremy and Lauren!

10$ zine, buy it here!

Save the Date: Nov 30: Amy W. Hit and Run Benefit

marc — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:14:07 +0000

Our friend and fellow King Amy W. got creamed by a hit and run driver while biking down Capp St at 1:30 in the morning- she is lucky to be alive, and unlucky with NO INSURANCE!

Help out with her November 30th benefit at Balazo Gallery! Art auction, food, dancing, DJs, we hope to see you there! Click on the flyer for more info- don’t forget to send her love at her blog love4amy.wordpress.com.

We love you Amy!