i figured i might as well make it go TWICE as far by copying and pasting my email into this rambles section, so i actually have some content that’s not two-months old. here we go:

SUBJECT: stuffs: punchline monday, APAture tuesday, LFV, and beyond.

hello.

you have not heard from me in a while. okay, some of you heard from me earlier today, or last night, or the day before, but not about THIS stuff. well, mebbe i mentioned this stuff once or twice, off-handedly.
but i didn’t write to you about it in such a formal way. not that this email is any where near formal. have you even made it this far yet? congratulations.

anyway, i am announcing a couple things that are right around the figurative corner:

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1. monday, september 17th
punchline comedy club
444 battery, between clay & washington, san francisco
8pm
$10 (i think)

official event name: drennon davis’ san francisco values

this evening is actually in honor of a new on-line tv show. like, it’s a tv show, but it’s not on a tv. and so i played a very small part in the pilot episode (and who knows, the part could have been cut at this
point), but everyone in the pilot is doing a short comedy set. i may be doing 3 minutes, or 5, or 7, so it won’t be very much time. but OH! what fun we’ll have. there are many wonderful comics performing, such
as drennon davis. and kurt weitzman. and moshe kasher. and others. i, also, expect to perform.

you can get tickets here:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C003EFAD3E25247 artistid=1145213&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=51

[or if that link doesn't work, trying going to punchline's site.]
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after performing at punchline, i will be returning to KSW’s space180, where i expect to work throughout the night like a rockstar, but without the fame or the coke, finishing up preparations for:

2. the opening night of KSW’s 9th annual APAture festival!
TUES, SEPT 18th, 2007
KSW’s space180, 180 capp street, @ 17th street, sf
Gallery Opening Reception/Festival Kick-Off
exhibition showcases the work of about 30 artists include visual feature Misako Inaoka.

suggested donation of $5, or $10, or something, but it’s FREE to go to the opening. please support if you can with suggested donation, but don’t NOT go because you think you have to pay.

festival runs 9/18 – 9/29, at various venues in the mission district and chinatown, and it is Arts Festival Most Wondrous and Highly Acclaimed. you must go to as many events in the 12-day time span as is
humanly possible, which would be not all the events, since a few overlap. but hardly any overlap.

look, information is here:
http://www.apature.org

how convenient!

i also will be hosting the apature comedy night on 9/28 at the make-out room. what fun!

please check out the festival. it is my blood, my sweat, my tears…
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also my blood, my sweat, my tears:

3. Lydia’s Funeral Video
opens January 31st, 2008, at the Dark Room Theatre

no other information yet, just trying to generate buzz. i hope to get people to create Lydia’s Funeral Video stickers with a link to the nonexistent LydiasFuneralVideo.com website, and go LFV crazy by stenciling the nonexistent Lydia’s Funeral Video (LFV) logo on the street, brazenly flouting the law, and then have people start engaging in conversations such as the following:

Person 1: whoa, what are you doing?!!!??!

Person 2: just typing out the three words “Lydia’s Funeral Video” over and over for the next post on my blogspot blog, with no spaces and no carriage returns. and i am doing this strange activity with the lights
off and no one else in the apartment–which reminds me, hey! who are you, and how’d you get in here, anyway?

Person 1: i broke in. i’m engaging in guerrilla marketing techniques by breaking into people’s homes and leaving a pile of fliers on their kitchen table. and one flier taped up in the bathroom, because that’s
where most people will notice it.

Person 2: wow. sounds like you and i have both caught the same thing–

P1 & P2: Lydia’s Funeral Video Fever!

(stupid cyber-laughter ensues).

RANDOM BLOG INTRUDER: this is the stupidest dialogue i’ve read this decade.

sam: this isn’t a blog, fuckface, it’s an EMAIL**. so get back to the blogs where you belong. before i CUT you.

RBI: fine. but don’t go blaming me when you get, like, fifty comments for readers agreeing with random blog intruder.

sam: i can’t get comments. because it’s NOT A BLOG. i’m gonna go start a website called www.notablog.com

person 3: hey, Not A Blog is a grrrrreeeat band name!

sam: who the hell are you?

**okay, so NOW it’s a blog. but it wasn’t when i first wrote it. and besides, the rambles is not a blog; it’s a rambles.

okay. i think it’s time to take that scene out back and shoot it. anyway, it’s fun writing LFV so far. the way being trapped in a dark, airless room with no doors or windows is fun.

just kidding. i am loving it. the parts which don’t make me feel like running in front of traffic.

anyway, look for more updates.

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4. oh, and i’ve recently started blogging on www.8asians.com, a blog about all things asian american, so check it out.

you’ll notice that i have barely posted at all, and i will probably get fired from www.8asians.com unless i pull it together and start generating some somewhat interesting commentary. oh, the pressure.
i’ll just stick with not-so-interesting commentary and hope it invites more interesting comments.

but the other folks involved are very cool, and i highly recommend reading the posts of the folks who actually post.

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wow, i really went on for a long time there. if you read the whole thing, you are a Very Impressive Human, and i commend you.

take care

sam