{"id":21,"date":"2006-12-19T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-12-19T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:22:48","slug":"rancid-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/rancid-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rancid Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a cloud seen in Los Gatos near my house. And the next picture shows a pair of donkeys up on the hill. Christmas donkeys.<\/p>\n

I got a little more info on Ta Moko from Ray Quah: There’s a book of photos by Hans Neleman Moko-Maori Tattoo<\/i><\/a>. Also there’s some modern ta moko in the movie Once Were Warriors<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Robert Anton Wilson is still alive and, if not kicking, at least blogging<\/a>. Great to see he’s still at it.<\/p>\n

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The other day, as an Xmas treat, I went into SF and met up with John Shirley, my son Rudy, and hacker Marc Powell. First we went to a show of Croatian electronic art at the Tenderloin RX Gallery<\/a>. It’s so funny how the totally scuzzy Tenderloin is wedged in on the same side of Market Street as the big tourist hotels and Union Square.<\/p>\n

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Marc is into “food hacking<\/a>” now. Check out his site and figure it out. He said if you blog something before someone else, you got the “blog drop” on them. So maybe I have the blog drop on Marc right now.<\/p>\n

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We four went to see Rancid at the Warfield. It was so great to see Rancid<\/a>. I love those guys, especially Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen (Tim in the middle, Lars on the left). I think they’re both from Campbell, California, a suburb of San Jose near where I live.<\/p>\n

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It’s always nice seeing a concert in the Warfield, with its plaster moldings and painting on the ceiling. Using the old SF analogy machine: the people who painted this mural in the early 1900s are in the same relation to Rancid’s music as the designers of the contermporary Metreon Center are to ——- (fill in blank with some type of performance in the year 2106.)<\/p>\n

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I’ve only seen Rancid live once before, and that was when they did a free lunch-time concert outside the student center at San Jose State, more than ten years ago. At the time I was so happy and surprised to see that punk was still alive and, indeed, as good as ever. John S was happily beating time to the Rancid music. He says the latest popular punk band out the gate is The Horrors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rancid's first song: “When I've got the music, I've got a place to go.” That says it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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