THE QUEUE
- Is it OK for babies to pub crawl? | [CNN]
- Uh, Really? Men More Likely to Be Pleased by Unplanned Pregnancy | [Lemon Drop]
- Your 2010 SXSW Itinerary | [Smoking Section]
- 7 Horror Movies So Bad, They’re Good | [Fork Party]
- Online game seeks to empower Africa | [CNN]
- Ordered chaos | [BBC]
- Forever Fly: GQ Takes A Look At 20 Black Pioneers Of Style | [Bossip]
- Resuscitating Your Drowned Gadgets | [Bheestie Bag]
- Five Economic Collapses More Ridiculous Than This One | [Gorilla Mask]
- Funny Guitar Faces | [Uncoached]
One Year Anniversary Party @ The Hundreds SF | 3.20.09
Continuing their “Fifth” series of celebrations to mark the brand’s fifth birthday, The Hundreds threw a one year anniversary party for their San Francisco store on Post St. We got to chat a little bit with Ben and Tony (who were, as usual, super super cool) but alas, I missed a chance to meet Bobby Hundreds. Oh well.
More pictures of the party after the jump, my favorite of which is right above these paragraphs. Nothing says “Duuuuuude I’m having fuuuuuuun” like flashing the rocker and looking like your grill got hit by a bus.
“I can make you a celebrity overnight.”
I woke up this morning to this text from my brother: “You made front page gold on the TH blog.”
HUZZAH. None of you know how awesome this is for me. I’m a longtime follower/reader/fan of TH and I’m stoked to see myself on their homepage, even if it’s only for probably all of an entire day.
But before I start basking in my .15 nanoseconds of e-fame and hire a Venezuelan security guard/dry cleaner to carry my water bottle for me, I have to first thank Ben (for seriously being a homie, and absolutely cool, even though I’ve only talked to him twice) and Bobby and Tony and everyone in The Hundreds‘ crew who put together Friday’s excellent hipsterfest beer-a-thon party for THSF’s first year anniversary.
Check out ynoT?’s blog for more pics, and stay tuned for our coverage tomorrow. Incidentally, that girl in the Twisted Sister shirt is officially MY NEW GIRLFRIEND. Maybe. If I can find her on Craigslist’s Missed Connections.
Less than minor celebrities.
Spring Collection Preview @ Saks SF | 3.19.09
Last night at the Saks Fifth Avenue Men’s store, we were invited to a Spring Collection preview party by Saks and Urban Daddy, hosted by none other than Eric Jennings, Saks Fifth Avenue Men’s Fashion Director. It was a homecoming of sorts, since Mr. Jennings is originally from Walnut Creek here in the Bay Area.
Stay tuned for our post next Monday, where we’ll have our exclusive interview (!!!) with Mr. Jennings. But for right now, click after the jump for more pictures of the men’s spring preview.
Paul Oakenfold (maybe) @ Ruby Skye | 4.16.09
Part of being a good journalist is knowing what you’re going to cover, who might be relevant to your story, and generally having at least some sort of clue as to what you’re doing. Luckily for the Steel Crew, we’ve never claimed to be real journalists; we just pretend to be.
So when we went to 944 Magazine’s party at Ruby Skye last night, it’s really not our fault that we didn’t know if the DJ who was onstage was actually Paul Oakenfold. I’ve been to about eleventeen zillion live music events/shows and usually there’s a few opening acts, and then the headliner hits the stage. But I guess my lack of familiarity with the house/trance scene became more than apparent soon enough. The DJ spinning at 8PM was the same one spinning at 9:30. And at 10. And at 11. And we’re still not sure if it was Oakenfold.
Help us figure out after the jump.
Amoeba Art Show Factory Party 04.06.09
For their third annual art show, those magnificent mavens of counterculture music, Amoeba, decided to hold their Warhol Factory-themed party at the cultural mecca of the East Bay, the touchstone of artistic movement in the Oakland area: Emeryville.
Kidding. Actually, everything about that sentence is the truth except for the part about Emeryville being awesome. It’s good because there’s an Ikea and a movie theater and an Apple store, but just about nothing else really. I would know because I live there. But this year’s Factory Party was…and there’s really no other word for it…BANANAS.
Artists, screenprinters, performers, lighting so incredibly frustrating to shoot under that I almost threw my new camera into the wall, costumes, installations, canvases, INFLATABLE CARS, piles of soup cans, crayons, wristbands, a coat check person in drag, children, food-tasting, drinks, Velvet Underground cover bands, paint, giant banana people…literally almost every sensory-violating object you could ever imagine was represented in full force at the party. We got in fairly early and managed to snap about, oh, eleventy-six gazillion pictures for your entertainment. When we left, there was a monstrous line snaking through the parking lot and even more people on mobile phones complaining to their friends about how they couldn’t get in. Lots of fun things to looks at, and still rather enjoyable despite the complaints.
An absurd number of pictures after the jump.
First Thursdays (Part 4) | Divisadero Corridor Art Walk
First Thursdays chronicles the adventures of The Steel Crew as they foray into San Francisco culture on every first Thursday of the month.
Totally unbeknownst to us during all of our college years, the Divisadero Corridor Art Walk occurs at almost all of the street’s bars on First Thursdays. It is a hybrid pub crawl/art reception series. There are 28 bars that participated last Thursday. That’s 28 bars along one street that spans 12 blocks with a different art gallery at each one. So you get to party on a Thursday with the added satisfaction of art appreciation. As long as the artwork doesn’t excite any pent up emotions or daddy issues, then we consider the night a win. We were only able to make it to 3 bars and still thoroughly enjoy ourselves, considering everything else we did before we arrived to Divisadero. But we decided that the art walk was definitely something worth doing again at the next First Thursday.
Our last stop of the night was at the Madrone Art Bar, where they were having 90s night! Many of my peers grew up on 90’s rap and hip hop and you can just taste the nostalgia in the air. I’m talking about Biggie, Tupac, Big Pun, No Limit, and even some Rage Against The Machine. At the end of it, we wondered why we went to the same club every month over and over again as college seniors.
Life can truly be a bubble sometimes…even when you think you’re going out and being exciting.
Click for photos of the artwork…
Fast backward in time
