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In the Paper again/ Plus 5 Cent Coffee Live tomorrow night in SF!

Sanchez_Boon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:21:59 GMT

Hey kids, So this inst as big as being in the Chronicle, but we got our picture in the Vallejo Times Herald for our gig in Glen Cove on Sat. Check it out: www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_9940853 Also! Tomorrow night! (Thursday July 24th 2008) we're playing in SF. Below is the blurb. ------> Hey Kids! That's right, next Thursday July 24th, 5 Cent Coffee will be performing at the historic Eagle Tavern in good ol' San Francisco CA! We are proud to be sharing the stage once again with our heroes The Goat Family as they kick off their pacific northwest tour! Also you will swoon to the extraterrestrial, PBS nature show sounds of Cheetahs on the Moon! Its gonna a hoot, so come on down! Yeeha! Below is the skinny: The Goat Family www.myspace.com/thegoatfamily Cheetahs on the Moon www.myspace.com/ohmycheetahs 5 Cent Coffee www.myspace.com/fivecentcoffee LIVE @ The Eagle Tavern 398 12th St. San Francisco, CA Thursday July 24th 9pm-ish 21+ $5 cover Be There! -Spitshine

Big Books

Sanchez_Boon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:38:16 GMT

So I'm reading War & Peace. I didn't want to tell anyone until I at least hit the triple digits in case I fizzled out after the forward. As of last night I'm on page 104! You see, back when I was about 19 I picked up James Joyce's Ulysses and in confusion, I shamefully put it down after 50 pages. I believe at that time that was the first book I had ever started and not completed. It still sits on a book shelf to this day, mocking me. Now in 2008 I feel ready to face those epic classics which have made me tremble since that Joyce bitch slap. So I figured, why not start with the biggest classic I could think of. I remember making jokes in my youth (perhaps some of you have told similar ones) which referred to War and Peace. i.e. when my brother would hog the bathroom and take an hour long dump. I would pound on the door and scream "Hey, what are ya doin' in there? Writing a Russian Novel"? Ironically, I read 3 pages on the toilet this morning. Anyway, I read a review of a new translation in the New Yorker last December and said "dang nubbit I'm gonna read that thing". Our very own Chad McComber was nice enough to purchase a copy for me recently and wrote on the inside sleeve: "May this book even an incredibly uneven table". So far the tome has not been used as furniture and in fact the story is quite good. Who knew? There are a couple challenges of course, not only does the book weigh 5 pounds but it also was written 150 years ago in Russian (nicely translated) with whole paragraphs sprinkled throughout in French (not translated). The narrative slips in and out of text book historical fact and flowery poetic language and in the first hundred pages he has introduced at least 30 characters of which none has come forward yet as the clear hero of the story. BUT, even with all of that it is beautifully written and I feel like I may be able to actually plow through this thing eventually. First, War & Peace, then Anna Karenina, Moby Dick, Les Miserables, and yes someday I will conquer that drunken bastard Joyce! ....then maybe I'll read some comic books for a while.

BBQ this Saturday!

Sanchez_Boon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:35:01 GMT

Hey kids My mother is having a mellow hippy BBQ at the compound on Saturday. We'll be grilling and drinking beers with some summer of love veterans, so if anyone wants to come on by you're welcome. Bring a little beer and/or something for the grill and/or your self. Should be kicking off around noon. Word!

Yeeeha!

Sanchez_Boon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:59:27 GMT

Thanks ya'll who came out to our hillbilly hoedown! It was super fun! Check out pics from the party below. Taken by the lovely and talented Paula Wirth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/sets/72157605902485484/?page=3

Tom Waits in Phoenix!

Sanchez_Boon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:46:52 GMT

Heidi and I are driving to Phoenix tonight to see our hero play the Orpheum Theatre! It's the first of an 8 show tour through the south. (Why he never plays somewhere we don't have to travel across the country to see him I dunno). It will be totally worth it though. There is simply nothing like Tom Waits live. He's calling it the Glitter and Doom tour, so if it's anything like the Orphans tour in 2006 that means a new album called Glitter and Doom should follow! I'll post the full report here upon our return, which should be sometime Wednesday night. Clank Boom Steam!

Ending and beginnings

Sanchez_Boon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:40:37 GMT

Laid off last night. My last day is tomorrow. Feh. I've been canned so many times it doesn't phase me as much as it used to, but it's still a strange feeling. The money was laughably bad, but the work and the company was actually kind of fun and rewarding at times. The job wasn't perfect and I didn't want to be here forever. Things are tough all over though I guess, so they had to cut something. It's always a little funky to have to leave somewhere not on your own terms. I'm trying to look at it as a blessing and the more I think about it the more I realize that it really is. I have some plans/dreams that have been percolating lately and I've been slaving for other people my whole life (although, I'm sure I will again while I set some things in motion). The main longterm goal right now is an idea about starting my own production/booking/artist community enriching/record label type company. I know that it will be a lot of work and probably really hard to make profitable, but that's not really the reason(s) I want to do it. In observing my behavior over the past few years I've found myself spending most of my slack time at work and free time in the evenings doing something along those lines, not because I have to but because I actually really enjoy doing it. For years I've been saying "whew, all this band management, booking and promotion is a drag, I wish I could just play music." I'm sure that I've babbled that sort of comment at some of you reading this at one point or another. However, over the past few months I've come to a realization that either I've been lying to myself or I've actually learned to love it. Now I find myself getting all giddy about making a flyer for a show or putting a CD into a mailbox or getting a big show together or sending an e-mail to some club for the forth time. It's weird but the whole package is what is turning me on right now. Playing music, recording, packaging, promotion, cat wrangling for a show, rehearsals, everything. I've been gigging in this town since I was seventeen years old (what's that 15 years or so?) and over the years things have changed considerably. I remember booking gigs in the early 90s by hanging around at a club, sometimes for hours, with a dubbed cassette tape of a band practice recorded on the built in mic from my boom box. I would write a home phone number on the case with a sharpie and wait for the booker to hopefully stumble in. After that promotion consisted of literally cutting and pasting flyers together at Kinkos in the wee hours of the night, then taping one to every light pole up and down Haight Street. Now-a-days of course, it's all Mp3s, e-mails, ringtones, networking sites, you tubes, online press kits etc. It's overwhelming, frustrating and exciting all at the same time. I feel like I'm learning something new and bringing some of my old school knowledge together in someway everyday and honestly it kind of gives me a chubby. Something that has always been most important to me is the community aspect of the Bay Area music scene. Live music took a deep, crippling hit during the dot-com boom and the Bay Area was a creative wasteland for a couple years, long after the bust. It was hard to get a paying gig anywhere if you weren't a cover band in the marina and the art bands that were at the heart of the scene either split up or receded to coffee shops and underground art gallery shows. A big lesson I learned out of those dark days was that as rehearsal studios closed, venues switched to DJ nights or put a pool table on the stage and fired up the juke box. Bands broke up or moved out of town, and everybody lost. The musician, the music lover, the San Francisco native, and the recent new blood that rolled into town. I had an epiphany then which I have tried to hold onto as a mantra to this day and that is: For the artist, community is everything. There is no place in my mind for competition in the music scene. If a community can band together and support each other we all succeed. When one group makes progress, everyone around them benefits. It is past time for all of us artist and fans and friends to band together and do our best to leave any jealousy or ego at the door. I fear that if we don't acknowledge the special thing we have here, and learn to work side by side and lift each other up, we will not be prepared to weather another disaster like those dot-com years. Fortunately art is making a strong comeback in the new millennium with some of the best music and performances I've ever seen. With this rebirth and the new ways that bands and artists of all kinds can promote themselves, I believe that together we can get this unique west coast sound back on the map. I think that is at the root of my mission statement for this venture. Over the years I have clung stubbornly to a couple of the old things I learned back when I was playing in bars I wasn't old enough to drink in. Things like the "Code" where if you are in a band you show up at load in time and stick around till the end of the night to support the other bands instead of rolling in, playing your slot and hitting the road (sounds simple, but you would be amazed how many people except the latter as the norm these days). Also, the headliner should play last instead of the "sweet spot" in the middle. I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one left who believes that, but hey somebody's gotta. What I would like to do is blend those old traditions that made the old scene so great and successful with the new, almost infinite opportunities available to musicians today. I think somewhere in the middle, a grass roots movement could grow way beyond me and you and become something truly beautiful and legendary. Something on par with the Punk scene in New York in the 70's, the Metal scene in LA in the 80s, the grunge scene in Seattle in the 90s. I've been to all of those places and nothing there is as exciting as what is happing right here, right now. The Bay Area underground will be the next big thing it can be on our terms. This scene is what we make it and no one can go at it alone. I'm not sure where to start, but I am inspired as hell right now. I hope you can join me.

Burlesque and 5 Cent Coffee tonight in Oakland!

Sanchez_Boon — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:47:13 GMT

Check it out! Tonight, come on down to the Stork Club in Oakland for a night of hot burlesque and cheeky comedy culminating with a set of music from your favorite neo-skiffle junyrard blues trio! That' right, it's the First Friday Follies, put on by the premiere east bay burlesque group, Belles Du Jour! It's a full night of entertainment starting around 9pm with performances by Amelia Mae Paradise, Belles Du Jour, Glam-O-Rama-Girly Show, Honey Le Bang, stand up comedy by Michael Capozzola and our MC Sinclair! Then just when you think you've seen it all, 5 Cent Coffee will hit the stage to whisk you away into a clanky, swampy, sexy nirvana! I know what you are thinking, this much world class entertainment must cost a hundred dollars at the door right? WRONG! This smorgisboard of pasties,stand up comedy, glitter, spanky pants, and duck on bike can all be yours for the low low price of ZERO! That's right there's no cover, so come on down! Here's the skinny: First Friday Follies featuring: 5 Cent Coffee Belles Du Jour Honey Le Bang Glam-O-Rama-Girly Show Michael Capozzola your MC Sinclair ...and more! @ the Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA Friday June 6th Doors: 8pm Show: 9pm No Cover!! See you there! -Spitshine

Just Call me Johnny Fever!

Sanchez_Boon — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:34:17 GMT

Check it out! Heidi and I will be guest DJs on KALX radio is Berkeley this Thursday (late) night! Here's the official blurb from Peter Hurney: ------------> Once a month we'll hi-jack the Midnight Express show and take the Midnight Ukulele Express out for a ride. You'll enjoy an hour of music by bands that include the ukulele into their sound, from George Harrison to George Formby, from Tiny Tim to Tippy Canoe and from Ukulele Ike to Uni and Her Ukulele. Hosting along with me on this show will be the band 5 Cent Coffee who just returned from their Japanese tour and promised to join with us in the studio with a bunch of new music they found in Japan. I can't wait to hear what they found! That will be this Thursday, May 22nd at Midnight, Pacific time on KALX 90.7 FM in Berkeley and for those of you out of our listening range KALX can be streamed live on-line at http://kalx.berkeley.edu Peterhurney www.pohakuukulele.com remember; chocolate's not just for breakfast anymore

Tonight!

Sanchez_Boon — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35:42 GMT

Hey ya'll come on out tonight to the El Rio for our first 5 Cent gig since Japan! 5 Cent Coffee J. Byrd Hosch & the Tater Trio http://www.jbyrdhosch.com/ T&A http://www.myspace.com/tracyandangelx LIVE @ El Rio 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez) San Francisco, CA Wednesday, May 7th 21+ 8pm Only $5!

Bezerkely college radio!

Sanchez_Boon — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:17:04 GMT

We were #30 on the KALX most frequently played music charts last week! http://kalx.berkeley.edu/charts/weekly/042808.htm We beat out the Wu Tang Clan! With all of the different DJs spinning there 24 hours a day and with that massive room of music at their disposal, (there are literally hundreds of thousands of CDs in there), they played cuts off of Bourbon and Beans enough times to rank us as the #30 most played band! That shit is Awesome.

Bourbon & Beans reviewed!

Sanchez_Boon — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:27:31 GMT

I sent a copy to the East Bay Express before we went to Japan and they put this up last week! http://www.eastbayexpress.com/music/local_licks/Content?oid=717609 Does anyone have the print version laying around by chance????? Last weeks.

Japan Photos!

Sanchez_Boon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:28:06 GMT

Finally got them uploaded and even went though and titled most of them! Check it out: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=will7gx.8upv53l&x=0&y=5xmrch&localeid=en_US Also a couple people said that they missed our blogs cause they got buried in a tribe blog frenzy, if so click here: My Blog: http://people.tribe.net/sanchez_boon/blog/202af004-08cb-446a-bb10-22beb389924a Heidi's: http://people.tribe.net/doodlz/blog/ca740c7f-dadb-49c2-8273-10dc40ab43ff

Japan!!!!!!!!!!

Sanchez_Boon — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:10:55 GMT

Alrighty! Here’s the super quick reader’s digest version of the trip. It was pretty much jam packed and putting things into a chronological order has been a challenge, but I’ll do it for you because I care. We pretty much eased into a schedule of sleeping every other day. At first we thought this was some form of lesson, like when a kid gets caught smoking cigarettes and they are forced to smoke the whole pack till they get sick. “So, you think you can party, huh? Well you will party like never before, that’ll show ya!” However, we came to find out that the level of activity and pace we were maintaining was merely being Japanese. Aaron, Heidi and I consider ourselves to be pretty hard core professional drinkers, and we have friends, who are probably reading this blog right now, who have legendary livers that would make most people in other circles call for an intervention. But, let me tell you, nobody parties like the Japanese. Nobody. Here we go: Plane ride was long. The first 8 hours on a flight are almost tolerable, but there’s something about those last 2 hours that drive you a little stir crazy. Fortunately we arrived and had no real problems with customs. At the airport we had our first vending machine purchase, something that looked weird and ended up being hot barley tea. We would start every morning thereafter with strange vending machine experiments. This morning I had to make clicking vending machine sounds while I made my coffee in order to feel at home. Anyway, caught a train into Tokyo station and finally met, in person, our new hero Mr. Yano Tadashi. Can't say enough good things about this man, so I will sprinkle his awesomeness throughout. Let's just say as far as human beings go there is no other like Yano. He led us through 3 train transfers to the Shimokitazawa neighborhood where we dropped our gear at the Piece of 8 pirate bar. Yarrr!! It’s kind of funny that we can fly 6000 miles with an art band and still end up playing a song set in front of a Jolly Roger. Some things never change. While there we hoisted some Kirin cans and said the first of many Kompais! Then we set up, had a sound check (they take their sound checks seriously in Japan) then walked our excess bags over to Yano's apartment ,which was a Japanese apt, more like a like a walk in closet, but it was cozy and we came to love it. No shower there sadly, (space being an issue, not everyone in Japan can afford a place with bathing room) so we each slathered on an even coat of deodorant, (that’s right I wore deodorant, Aaron and Heidi threatened to break up the band if I didn’t) changed into our show gear and headed on back to Piece of 8. At this point I should address the atmosphere in the standard underground Americana Japanese bar. In Japan smoking is prohibited on the street and in public parks, however it is not only allowed, but encouraged in small, windowless, unventilated bars. At first this was a bit of a drag, but we shrugged off our Bay Area smoke free pretension, went in balls deep and soon adapted nicely. The only side affect is that our skin has turned into smoked beef jerky, but hey who doesn’t like jerky? Moving on. The opening bands were hot! In fact as we were to find out, every band we saw in Japan was the best band we’ve ever heard. It got a little silly after a while. We just wanted to see one slightly less than awesome band play with us, but no. They just kept getting better. I have a stack of impossible to find CDs and took video of most of the groups we played with, so I’ll spread the love. We went on about 11pm and played a 45 min set. We were tired having been up for about 26 hours, but we mustered up enough energy to rock the joint. Then we proceeded to slam several dozen beers before slinking back to the casa de Yano and crashing out sometime in the wee hours. We slept 5-6 hours then got up and explored the neighborhood of Shimokitazawa. We ended up having what turned out to be Aaron’s favorite breakfast, Loco Moco (egg, hamburger and rice). Then we regrouped at the pad, met up with Yano again and he helped us navigate our gear to the outlying town of Tskuba. At the Tskuba station we got picked up by Okami, the Banjo player from Akage No Muddys and ferried over to the East of Eden Bar. This was a James Dean themed joint with a big statue of him outside and ice cold Asahi on tap inside. We would proceed to run up our biggest bar tab of the trip that night. Gooob! Yano (on resonator Guitar) and his girlfriend Yuko (on Sax) opened up the night. They were great, he’s a virtuoso, and we came to find out that he can play every instrument you put in front of him. Yuko rocks the Sax like nobody’s business; she blows with the soul of an old man from New Orleans. In fact that’s another point about the musicians we saw and hung out with, they all played with so much soul and conviction. There was great musicality, but no one was just showing off or going through the motions. It was deep shit. After them it was Akage No Muddys. They blew doors, Okami was so enthusiastic and he got the crowd fired up. He ended up being one our best new friends out there and even made the drive from Tsukba on a work night to see our last gig in Tokyo. Plus he’s a dead head. Good people. We played another good set and called up all of the musicians on stage for St. James Infirmary at the end. This became the way we ended every show and it was always stellar and huge. Funny thing is we tried to get it on video a couple times and it never happened. It was destined to be that the most magical musical moments were offered to the universe and will live as memories not You Tube videos. Kind of beautiful that way really. We drank there till about 4am and then piled into Okami’s car and headed to the local Onsen (public bath house). There we split up, Heidi and Yuko went to the girl side and Yano, Okami, Aaron and I went to the boy side. Due to Yakuza trouble (Japanese Mafia) there was a big sign outside that said “No drunks! No men with tattoos!” It may as well have said “No 5 CENT COFFEE”. I had to wear a towel draped over my arm the whole time but it was pretty great to finally have a shower and sit in a hot tub for a while. Then we lumbered up stairs to the “relaxation room” where there were reclining chairs and a den of snoring Japanese men. We all laid down for about an hour and got a wink of sleep, then it was up again, pile into the car and drive to Yokohama for the Jug Band Festival! (see above note about nobody partying like the Japanese) On our way we stopped at a convenience store to grab some coffee and a snack. We got some weird sandwiches (which became Heidi’s obsession throughout the trip) and after eating one I had to make everyone wait while I ran screaming to the bathroom. As I emerged, they applauded me and I had been officially dubbed “King of Poo” by Yano Tadashi. Through out the trip Yano told the story and it spread throughout the group. Now I am known in Japan as the King of Poo, and I’m pretty fucking proud of that. Anyway, we got to ride through Tokyo on the freeway to get to Yokohama and even caught a glimpse of Mt. Fuji through the smog. We dropped our stuff, met a ton of nice folks and then went with an entourage to have the best sushi we have ever had in our lives. I cannot begin to describe how good it was. Poetry needs to be written about this sushi. Angels were singing, tears of joy…god damn it was good. Here we also had real wasabi which is mind blowing. Whew. After that we went back to the Jug band fest building for the pre-festival meeting. The organizers named each band playing that day and they rose for applause. When our turn came around we got possibly the largest reaction from this room packed full of world class musicians. Geez, no pressure or anything. We grabbed our gear and headed across the street to the first of our two slots at the outdoor rooftop stage. There we played a 20 min set and the crowd was maybe not as enthusiastic as we would have hoped. We played well, but realized that nervousness had gotten the best of us and we could do better. We regrouped and wrote the perfect set list for our main event slot on the big stage inside club Thumbs Up. We opened with Came Down from the Mountain and when Heidi threw that chain down the first time, we knew it was all gonna be ok. The crowd lost their minds! I started at the back of the house and snaked my way through the crowd with the Megaphone. Boy howdy it was sweet. We played pretty much flawlessly for 30 mins and left them howling for more. This would set the bar for our performances for the rest of the tour. We were officially warmed up, Look out Japan! It was a great, long day and with 37 bands playing on 4 stages we had the opportunity to see some ridiculously awesome music. I spent most of my souvenir budget for the trip on CDs that day. Man it was good. We made the last train back to Shimokitazawa and after a couple shots of Japanese whiskey, we finally went to sleep on the morning of April 6th. A few hours later we were up again, Aaron had his Loco Moco and we set off for what would become my favorite neighborhood ever, Koenji. There we dropped our gear and sound checked for the first of a three night residency at the Tokyo Moonstomp. The Moonstomp is a cool little Irish themed basement bar maybe the size of our living room, bar included. We packed at least 60 people in there that first night and they were literally hanging off of the walls. We played with some hot bands as usual including an explosive swing outfit called Mo’ Lets and a great blues band called the Lightning Stacks who’s front man/harp player Ryoma sat in with us for a few songs on the rest of our Moonstomp nights and our last gig at the Son House. Super hot shit, I tell you what. At this stage we were still a little intimidated headlining nights with these great bands, but we jumped right in and blew doors off the joint. What we came to realize about these musicians is that although they have studied vigorously and are more accomplished at their instruments than anyone I know here state side, there is none of the same jaded feelings of superiority and ego that one sometimes encounters here. In Japan (Koenji especially) there was more of an honest appreciation for art and original expression than I’ve ever seen. It was inspiring really, and I have made a resolution of sorts to curb my own tendencies towards that sort of negativity. Yasu, the bar owner gave us a bottle of Jamesons as a gift for our 3 day stint there which we slurped down the first night of course. After the show we had some heat on and stumbled along with Yano, Yasu, the Lighting Stacks and a few other Koenji denizens to a nearby Izikaya. An Izikaya is a place where you take off your shoes sit cross legged on the floor around a low table in a traditional fashion, then guzzle beer and sake all night long. We ordered little dishes of sashimi and fried things and laughed about as hard as we ever have with some great people. Before we knew it the sun was up, people were piling into trains to go to work and we were being poured into a cab back to Shimokitazawa. What a night-- I have some video of it, I’m afraid to watch. After a handful of hours of sleep we were on the train back over to Koenji to sound check for the show that night. I was carrying with me one of the top ten hangovers of my life. While freshening up at Yuko’s house (near Moonstomp) I puked up some blood and felt much better. That night we got back in the saddle and raged. More great music and we threw down. We made it an early night this time and were in bed by 3:30am. The next day I twisted my ankle and fell down some stairs and I was pretty sure my stomach lining was deteriorating, also Heidi’s hips began to give out and Aaron developed shin splints. We were convinced that we were not all gonna make it through this thing alive. However, after that we started to fully acclimatize and gain some of that fabled Japanese Jug Band Musician stamina. By the end of the trip we were invincible! We played that night, drank, jammed, and said our sad farewells to the Moonstomp. It was amazing to settle into a place for three nights and have people come back again and again. We made some great connections with some fantastic people. The next day we piled on to the Shinkansen bullet train for Osaka which whisked us across the country in 3.5 hours. Plus a little man came by with a cart full of beer and whiskey for sale…I love Japan. We made our way to Taisho station (which Aaron and I kept referring to as Tashi station of Star Wars fame while Heidi pretended that we weren’t there) and loaded into the Bar Pow Wow. This joint was decked out like an Arizona Adobe complete with dream catchers and longhorns on the walls. It was under the train tracks so every couple minutes the whole place would rumble as the train went by. Awesome. The place was owned by a man named Mu-Chan who was such a ray of mirth and joy, it was infectious. This place was about 1/3 smaller than the Moonstomp and I practically had to crawl under the low ceilings by the bar. We packed 68 people in there that night and it was so packed shoulder to shoulder, we had to watch the opening bands under an umbrella in the rain outside. When it was time to go on, we wiggled though the crowd and shook the walls with possibly the best set we had played thus far. Afterwards Aaron befriended a rockabilly hairdresser named Billy and started trading whiskey shots with him. I got to witness the one that put him over the edge (anyone who’s seen Aaron get the ‘Whiskey Eyes’ knows what I’m talking about). Moments later he was calling for water and after holding up the bar for a few minutes Yano stepped in and shuffled him off to the hotel up the street. Heidi and I held forth and drunkenly jammed all night with the Bigood Band (the Pow Wow house band), Yano, Mu and a handful of other musically inclined drunks. We eventually made our way to have some late night Ramen a few blocks away and then to the hotel, which turned out to be a super cheap “Love Hotel” where you can take a prostitute and rent the rooms by the hour. After 9pm you can rent on all night for $30. Cheaper than a Motel 6 and they supplied a basket of condoms and free pixilated Japanese porn on Channel One! In fact we already started work on a blues song with Yano called the Channel One Blues, two verses written, look for it soon! The next day was our first night off and we didn’t know what to do with ourselves. With no traveling or sound check to run to we wandered around like zombies. We tried to go to the Suntory Museum in Osaka because we thought it would be a Whiskey Museum. We got there and all they had was art, so we left and went to get some beer. Tourism wasn’t in the cards on this trip. That night we ended up back at the Pow Wow and knocked back some booze with the local Osaka bar flies. We exchanged gifts with Mu and it escalated as it always did until we were running out of things to exchange. You see there is this great gift giving tradition in Japan where you give a small gift to people when they host you in someway or you appreciate what they do. The funny thing that happens here is when they give a gift to you and you return the favor with a t-shirt or what not and then they give you something else and so on. It can get pretty crazy, but it’s pretty amazing too. Like Christmas everyday. Mu was a great example of the generosity, happiness and support we felt on every stage of the journey. As weird as it may sound, spending time with the Japanese bohemian community inspired me to try to be a better person. I think if the whole world were a little more Japanese it would be a better place. Whew. Ok, so the next day we hit the Shinkensen again and rolled down to Okayama home of “Momotaro the peach boy”, another song we are going to write based on the legend of a little boy who comes out of a peach pit and with the help of a dog, peacock and monkey defeats a three eyed demon. It’s gonna be an A major swing thing I think. In Okayama we met Fats Fujiwara (who is really quite thin) and went to do sound check at the Bar Blue Blues which was huge by Japan standards, had a green room and everything. We played there that night with Fats and Yano/Yuko. After the show, Fats and his girlfriend busted out this huge sushi spread right there in the bar and we all feasted and took breaks to jam on a few songs around the table. Woowee, pretty magical. We spent that night in a cheap motel which sadly had no free porn, but a super weird Japanese breakfast was included, so that’s something. Then we moseyed back to the train station to roll to Fukuoka and play at Space Terra with the Chorinure boys. It was a cool little jazz venue with a more ‘high end’ clientele then we were used to but they seemed to dig it. There were some hot swing dancers who showed up. It was sweet. Afterwards we hit the bar Nois Noiz down the street for a few post-show beers before retiring to Mitunori’s house( one of the Choinure Boys) to crash out. Aaron and I ended up staying up with Mitunori and a DJ named “Slap Happy” drinking Glen Morangie till 5am in the living room. Just seemed like the right thing to do. The next day we spent most of on the train back to Tokyo. Around 8pm we arrived and dropped our stuff at the Son House bar. We hung out for a few beers with Kumai, the owner then rolled back to our old pad at Shimakitazawa to rest up for our final night. We got up in the mid morning and Aaron had his final Loco Moco before we met up with Yano, who led us to some super cheap shopping in the Koenji area. Heidi got a great second hand Kimono for her and Jessica, Aaron got some new shirts. It was good and efficient, but very thirsty work. We soon found a bar and took care of that. That night was our last gig in Japan and probably the smallest place we played. All of our friends we had made at the Moonstomp gigs came back to see us, the place was packed and the vibes were sublime. It was like playing in your living room for some of your closest pals. We had Ryoma sit in on harp again and played the best version of Devil Woman we will ever play. Yano sat in on guitar for October which was epic. Then literally the entire bar grabbed an instrument or banged a table or clinked a glass together for a version of St. James Infirmary that would make Cab Callaway take his hat off. As an encore, Yano lead us all in a chorus of Goodnight Irene that made everyone tear up a little. We finished out the night with a steamy bowl of late night ramen and then crashed out on the floor of the bar. It was the perfect ending to a perfect trip. We made it onto the train with all of our stuff the next day thanks to Yano and Kumai and barely made it to our flight home due to oversized baggage confusion. Running for the gate etc. Then, 10 hours later we were back on US soil. None of it could have happened without Yano Tadashi. He is an amazing person, funny as hell, talented and smart. I am working hard to get him to come out in August for the SF Jug Fest. I look forward to all of you meeting him. It is still a little weird to be back, eat with a fork instead of a chopstick, not speak broken English or pigeon Japanese. I miss it actually. I really love that country, the culture, the music and most of all the people. We were fully immersed in modern Japanese bohemian culture the whole time. (In fact only hung out with a westerner briefly twice.) Other than that it was just us and the people of Japan. I consider us extremely lucky to have had this chance, and to live this experience. Not only did we get to spend time with these people, but we had the opportunity to make music with them, to express our art and have it appreciated and celebrated. Wow, its such a huge feeling, its hard to form into a coherent thought.. I’ve had some great journeys in my life so far, but this just may take the cake as the best thing I have ever done. …They want us to come back next year. Hmmmm, let me think about that for a second. Thanks for reading if you got this far! Woohoo!

She Ba Ka Zo!

Sanchez_Boon — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:01:48 GMT

We're back! Happy nice update later with fun! First beer, dog petting and many friend times! gozaimasssss!

Konichiwa!!!!

Sanchez_Boon — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:36:18 GMT

Wooohoo! Don'ｔ have much time to post here, because, we're in japan and that's way cooler than the internet, plus we have a sound check to do in under an hour at the Tokyo Moonstomp．　The trip so far has been unreal! Such an amazing journey. There will be a detailed account leter when we have a little down time, which hasn't happened yet but you never know. All of our shows so far have been good, espescially the Yokohama Jug Band Festival yesterday. That shit was off the hook. We've met so many cool people, including our new hero Mr. Yano Tadashi. Can't say enough good things about this man, so I will save that for another blog. Let's just say as far as human beings go there is no other like Yano. So much to tell. More soon! And hopefully some pictures if I can figure out how this keyboard works! XOXOXO -Spitshine, Doodles and Slick

48 hours!

Sanchez_Boon — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:13:13 GMT

At this time on Wednesday morning (11:30am) , we'll be buckling up on Untied Airlines with our bloody marys.....Woohoo! Some new developments: We are booked on two different stages for the Yokohama jug band Festival on April 5th! First at 3pm on the Park Forest JOINASU Roof Garden, that's a stage on top of a skyscraper people! Then at 5:30pm we head over to the main stage at the indoor venue called Thumbs Up to play along side the headliners. (See picture above). Plus, big thanks to our pal Todd from the goat family. He put me in touch with his cousin-in-law, who he's only met once at a family function, but just happens to own a music promotion company in Tokyo. (he was formerly CEO of Tower Records Japan) Anyway, a few weeks ago I dropped him an e-mail and just heard back this weekend. He is going to make it out to one of our Moonstomp gigs. No pressure or anything. Also, as if that weren't enough, when we are in Fukuoka on the 12th we have an appearance scheduled on local FM Radio. Fuck yeah! So, I'm officially freaking out (in a good way) right now. It's impossible for me to focus on work even though I have a mountain of it in from of me. This is so freakin' cool Below is the latest tour itinerary, (poorly translated by google) pasted from Yano Tadashi's blog. 5, the CentCoffee JaponTour2008! Ｆｒｏｍ　Ｓａｎ　Ｆｒａｎｃｉｓｃｏ＊５ＣｅｎｔＣｏｆｆｅｅ TomWaits from San Francisco, BlindWillieJohnson corner of the cover songs from BURUJI tone FolkSong variety of songs, such as the guitar, ukulele, washboard, using their own show AKODIONUDDOBESU to unfurl the latest type Jugband threesome! <Live schedule> ■ Bar Shimokitazawa, April 3, PIECE OF 8 ■ ■ ■ ・５　Ｃｅｎｔ　Ｃｏｆｆｅｅ　（Ｆｒｏｍ　ＵＳＡ）・Maldita Noche Maldita Noche ・BLUE TWO (guitar participate Tadashi Yano) Time Open 7:00 Rates start at 8 Place orders 1,500 yen Tokyo, 2-9-1 Shin Hiroshi Sawa Kita Bill 5 F Telephone 03-3465-8808 Web: Http://po8.jp/ ■ 4 / 4 @ Friday Ibaraki Tukuba -East Of Eden ・５　Ｃｅｎｔ　Ｃｏｆｆｅｅ・Q. ginger MADIZU ・Tadashi Yano 029-859-0324 ■ 4 / 5 @ Sat yokohama JugbandFes ・ＭａｄＷｏｒｄｓ　ＪｕＧＢａｎｄ Yokohama MadWords & SAMUZUAPPU West exit from the national meet JuGBand www.jugbandfes.jpn.ch ３Ｄａｙｓ　２００８ Cherry Blossom Festival Heisei MINSUTORERUSHOU @Ｂａｒ　ＭｏｏｎＳｔｏｍｐ: 　 ■ 4 / 6 @ Tokyo MoonStomp Sunday ・５　Ｃｅｎｔ　Ｃｏｆｆｅｅ・Ｍｏ’Ｌｅｔｓ・Ballad Shot ・Tadashi Yano ■4/7 Monday @Tokyo MoonStomp ■ 4 / 7 @ Monday Tokyo MoonStomp ・５　Ｃｅｎｔ　Ｃｏｆｆｅｅ・ MOARIZUMU KAHIROBANDO JIPUSHIVAKABONZU ■4/8 Tuesday @ Tokyo MoonStomp ■ 4 / 8 @ Tuesday Tokyo MoonStomp ・５　Ｃｅｎｔ　Ｃｏｆｆｅｅ・Bobby’s Bar ・Bar Ciba big three ・Nakazawa Baron Orchestra @ Charges 1,500 yen (advance tickets and is not) Open 19:30 Start @ 19:00 hours (6 pm only April 6th open 6:30 start) heart-whole mouth where underground mall end B1 03-3310-6996 ■ 4 / 9 @ Wednesday Taisho-ku, Osaka, "PowWow" ・５　Ｃｅｎｔ　Ｃｏｆｆｅｅ・Luxembourg Park ・ＴｈｅＢｉｇｏｏｄＢａｎｄ・Tadashi Yano 06 (6554) 8833 ■ 4 / 11 @ Friday Okayama "Bar blue blues" ・５　Ｃｅｎｔ　Ｃｏｆｆｅｅ・ Fats Huziwara ・ Tadashi Yano 086-227-5000 ■ April 12 (Saturday) Hakata Space TERRA Performer: ・５ＣｅｎｔＣｏｆｆｅｅ・Tadashi Yano ・Bit wet Boys Venue: SPACE TERRA OPEN: 20 am to Charge: Adv 1,500 yen (2,000 yen on the day) + order Address: Kego 2-19-9, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka百田Kego floor of a building at the intersection of groundwater, Softbank is building F 1 Tel: 092 (732) 3101 Mail： spaceterra1@ybb.ne.jp Web: http://www.spaceterra.net/terra.htm ■ 4 14 Monday, Son House ～　５ＣｅｎｔＣｏｆｆｅｅ　～ Goodbye to a party to 5CentCoffee ・ Mr KAURISUMAKI NAKASAKO and NAPORITANKAFETORIO 03-3312-9555

One Week Away!!!

Sanchez_Boon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:15:14 GMT

That's right, next Wednesday April 2nd we will be shambling onto a plane and flying to bonny olde Japan! I can still hardly believe it. I will likely be freaking out and perhaps posting jittery blogs over this next week. This will be an endurance challenge for sure. We land around 4pm on April 3rd and we have a gig booked that evening! So we will pretty much get off our 11 hour flight, shuffle through customs and then go to the club to set up! Whew. After that we have 7 gigs in a row be for our first of only 2 nights off. I can't wait! This trip is going to rule the universe! Woohoo!

5 Cent Coffee in the SF Chronicle today!

Sanchez_Boon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:01:17 GMT

Go buy one and check out the 96 hours section. A big half page column! And/or check out the Article on SFGate: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/19/NS71VLE37.DTL Apparently Heidi and I are married according to the story, who knew? :)

Damn.

Sanchez_Boon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:41:32 GMT

Riding in to work in the Park & Ride this morning the driver was playing KGO news-talk on the radio. In between the traffic report and some financial bad news, they mentioned that 8 soldiers were killed by IEDs in Iraq yesterday. I remember thinking, as I have before, how strange that the profound Injustice of a squandered life in this conflict gets the same length sound bite as the latest Britney Spears drama. Then of course, 30 seconds later my attention span was directed towards Madonna being inducted into the Rock n' Roll hall of fame. Iggy & the Stooges played her songs at the ceremony. I made the mental note to look for a clip on you-tube when I got to work. The 8 dead soldiers forgotten. After that my day was breezing by pretty much as normal until about 30 minutes ago. The finance director here at our small one room office sent a company wide e-mail and left for the day. Seems that her only brother, a Sargent stationed in Iraq, was killed yesterday by a road side IED along with 2 of his buddies and a civilian interpreter. I had forgotten that anyone had even died yesterday. Now I know his name was Philip and he had a wife and a 16 month old son. I wish I didn't know these things. It's easier to pretend it's all "over there" or the fallout is effecting "other people". It's easier to read the paper and shake your head, and then get whisked happily away by the first distraction that comes along to save yourself from the futility of the whole thing. But it's here, its on my mind. I know that soon, within the day, within the hour maybe, this too will be buried in that place where we put the moments that make us want to throw up our arms, knock down our cubicles and scream. Till then...

Bourbon & Beans available in record stores on 2 continents...so far

Sanchez_Boon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:42:53 GMT

Hey Kids, Thanks to everyone who came out to our CD release party (part 1) at the Plough & Stars. That was a hoot! We are having our Marin County CD release party in Bolinas on March 7th. (separate blog to follow later this week). The purpose of this missive is to let you and your know that Bourbon & Beans is now available to purchase on-line through pay-pal at www.fivecentcoffee.com and at several fine retailers around the bay area. Plus for your convenience, you can find it at several hip locations in the Empire of Japan! Ask for Bourbon & Beans at these fine locations: Amoeba Records 1855 Haight St San Francisco, CA 94117 You'll find us in the Rock Section under "Five Cent Coffee" (we've got our own card and everything!) Vinyl Planet 112 Washington St, between the intersections of Kentucky and Keller. Petaluma, CA 94952 707 765-0975 hours are 10am to 6 pm Tues. thru Sat. Or if you happen to be passing though Japan: The Connection Koenji Vintage Records, Clothes and Books.....Cafe & Bar with Good Music!! 13:00 - 24:00 ◆ Hours: Sunday-Thursday 13:00 - until midnight Tel&Fax 03-3312-8688 ◆ Closed: Wednesday ◆ Tel & Fax 03-3312-8688 ◆e-mail connection1970@excite.co.jp Http://www.koenji-connection.com/ Savory Pancakes Bar & AKOSUTIKKURAIBU １８：３０～３：００ ◆ weekdays / 3:00 ~ 18:30 １９：００～３：００ ◆ Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays Address: Fuji Suginami Naritahigashi 5-42-14 F Bill 3 Phone :03-3312-9555 mail: son_901@yahoo.co.jp http://sound.jp/sonhouse/ Taisho-ku, Osaka Bar PowWow Hours: 19:00 open 19:00 close close open 3:00 * 1:00 Holidays Closed Sunday (at Live Events & Sales Per) Phone: 06 (6554) 8833 Address: Taisho-ku, Osaka 1-6-3 http://powwow.gooside.com/ More to come! Stay tuned! -Spitshine

Doodles Larue in Japan!

Sanchez_Boon — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:17:01 GMT

Check it out! They just made up the poster for the Yokohama Jug Band Festival. Look close.... I swear if they didn't model the girl sitting and playing the accordion after Heidi I will eat my hat. That's so fucking cool. Check out all the bands on the lie up, looks like they are all from different parts of Japan and we are the only international group. Gulp...no pressure or anything: Original (Kanto) Family awaiting spring band (Kobe) Iiyama GAKIDEKAJAGUSUTONPAZU (Iiyama) LittleFats & Swingin'HotShotParty (Tokyo) KechonKechonJugBand (Yamagata) Hotch-PotchJugBand (Sendai) JASUBANDO parachute (Sendai) Joe-BanjoJugBand (Ibaraki) MADIZU ginger (Ibaraki) Aki with Friends & Tak (Ibaraki) MaCWARRY-HILLBILIES (Shizuoka) MAD-WORDS (Kanto) Old BURAZASUBANDO two (Huzinomiya) RAGUPAPA (Kobe) 5cent COFFEE (San Francisco) White &-shot (Chiba, Yokohama) OldSouthern JugBlowers Cow-CowHotClouds (Matsuzaka) JugBand molded confection and (Fukuyama) TheBigoodBand (Osaka) Boys refill Tokyo (Tokyo) POKASUKAJAN (Tokyo) Oh, I clubbed all TETSU富安+ (Tokyo, Toyohashi) Boo Foo Woo (kazoo band) (Tokyo) Belleville Rendezvous (Chiba) Joe-Go (Tokyo) Mr NAKASAKO and his NAPORITANKAFEOKESUTORA (Tokyo) HAWAIANJAGUBANDOBIAZU (Yokohama) Hitoshi You JAGUBANDO and that the tatami (Chiba) Jam pot (Toyohashi) Corey-Nize (Tokyo) Boys bit wet (Fukuoka) Pfizer Banjo Club (Yokohama) @ CampersJugBand (Kitakawati) THE LUNCH TIME (Osaka) BAN BAN BAZAR and Kazuo Minami (Tokyo) Black sesame paste (Yokohama) KUROSURODOJAGUSUTONPASU (Chiba) Guest: Fuji Maru桜小路

Bourbon and Beans is here!!!

Sanchez_Boon — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:03:34 GMT

Yay!! That's right, the 5 Cent Coffee album is finally in our grubby little hands. It looks great! We think it sounds great! What a mind blowing experience. We tracked the album with the uber talented David Brown up in Fort Bragg in one 8 hour session. Then the next day we mixed it in 5 hours. Then took it to Tim Gennart in Healdsburg for 7 hours of mastering the next weekend. After that viola we had a finished product, 15 songs, 46 mins! Bang! Then came duplication... The fabulous and talented Amy Zing did the graphic design for us and blew doors off of this thang! Then a generous loan form the mighty Tuckers helped us get the ball rolling. After that, the waiting began. The printing took longer than expected, but on Friday afternoon our fed-ex guy at work was greeted at the freight elevator by a very giddy boy vibrating with anticipation. It was like Christmas morning. Anyway, I will be gushing much more about it in person at our CD release Party!!! Check out the official blurb that Doodles wrote up this morning! Hope to see you there. Woohooo! ---- Here at 5 Cent Coffee headquarters, we've been waiting with bated breath for the mail truck every day. And lookeee it's here! That's right...our debut album Bourbon and Beans is finally ready!! Come on down and get your copy on Saturday February 9th or, if you can't stand waiting that long, you can purchase a copy online from our website: www.fivecentcoffee.com Duck on Bike, our extraordinary manager has set up an all star party in San Francisco at the fabulous Plough and Stars on Clement St, and we're thrilled to be sharing the stage with some of the people who have helped us along these past two years -- the ukulele and jug band community in the Bay Area is hands down, the most friendly and warm bunch of people on the planet. It is these sort of folks who we drew on to perform last year's "Everything' a Dollar in this Box - The Songs of Tom Waits on Cheap Instruments" -- the show turned out to be a hit, and we can thank our musical community of friends for that. From "Uke-y Stardust" to the SF Jugband Festival, we've been lucky enough to be included on the bill with such local luminaries as Tippy Canoe, the Uke Apocalypse, Dogs in Doublets, Hobohemian's Boxcar Band, Just Henry, Liquor Cake, Amy Zing and The Goat Family. So we've asked them to come out and play a few tunes for us! Woohoo! We thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for your support and hope you'll join us in celebrating our CD release! (We're going to put the party back in "CD Release Party")! Here's how it will go down: We'll have an all star opening set and then... drum roll please.... 5 Cent Coffee will the play the entire (soon to be legendary) album "Bourbon and Beans" from start to finish on ukulele! Ohhhh! Ahhhh! The All-star opening set features: Dan Briggs' Dogs in Doublets Liquor Cake Amy Zing Just Henry Hobohemian's Boxcar Band Tippy Canoe Kelly McCubbin, (The Uke Apocalypse) The Goat Family LIVE @ The Plough and Stars 116 Clement st. San Francisco, CA Saturday February 9th 8pm $5 door See you there! Yeeha! -Doodles -- Neo Skiffle Junk Yard Blues! www.fivecentcoffee.com www.myspace.com/fivecentcoffee http://tribes.tribe.net/5centcoffee

Konichiwa Japan!!

Sanchez_Boon — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:32:35 GMT

Some of you may know this already, but what's a blog for if you can't gush about your self for a while and bore everyone to tears. Here's the deal. In short, thanks to our connection with the Jug Band scene and the power of the internet, 5 Cent Coffee is touring Japan in April 2008!!! We just bought our tickets last night, so it has suddenly become very real for me. Wow! Just typing it out is a little bit of a shock. Let me back up a little. I guess it's all sort of Holly Defount and JB's fault when it comes down to it. They came to our Love Boat party at the compound two summers ago and invited these two crazy cats who were in a band called the Jug Dealers (in fact they were the whole band). We jammed and partied with them and then kept in touch via e-mail. Some months later Heidi hit up Brino (one of the Jug Dealers) about a Jug Band Invasion going on in Petaluma at the Phoenix theater. He put us in touch with the organizer Bebo White who is one of the founders of the California Jug Band Association. The line up was full but Bebo fit us in as a 20 minute tweener set in the lobby. We blew doors off the place and next thing you know Bebo squeezed us into his line-up for the San Francisco Jug Band Festival in Golden gate park. One of the other bands who played that bill was a hot little trio called Country Valley. A few songs into their set, they played a song in Japanese which the lead singer said he had learned at the Yokohama Jug Band Festival in Japan. We all did what you're probably doing right now, we scratched our heads and said "There's a Jug Band scene in Japan? That's fucking crazy" Enter the power of the Internets: We can all probably agree that MySpace is a blinking, clunky, eye-sore, designed for 13 year olds with the attention span of a gnat on crystal meth. That being said it has proven to be an invaluable tool for the band. Here's why: After we heard about the Japanese jug scene I did a little research and found a handful of hot old-timey jug groups in Tokyo. I friended a few of them and shot out some quick e-mails inquiring about the scene. After three days of bouncing a few e-mails back and forth with some of the most adorable people ever, a really weird thing happened. Somehow, we had a slot in the Yokohama Jug Band festival. I was a little shocked, but it seemed almost like a joke. I came home and told Aaron and Heidi that I had kind of, sort of, accidentally booked us a show in Japan. I honestly didn't know how they would feel about it, or for that matter how I felt about it. A trip to Japan is such a daunting prospect, it seems like some unrealistic fantasy. Well, as you can probably guess the response from Heidi and Aaron was a resounding "Fuck yeah". So, casting fear aside we plunged in head long. The greatest boon in was when I managed to establish a relationship with this cat in Tokyo named Yano Tadashi. He's a guitar player who listens to Tom Waits and reads Charles Bukowski, what's not to like! His help has been tremendous! He has managed to not only help us get into the Yokohama Jug Band Festival (which is on several stages at concert venues and sky-scraper roof top gardens around town). But he has also networked with his friends to get up booked playing 5 consecutive club dates in the Tokyo area, followed by a gig in Osaka, Okayama, and Fukuoka! So we have 8 club dates booked so far, now that we have our tickets we may flesh it out with a few more. Plus, we plan on busking on the streets every day to sell some CDs and pub our nighttime shows. Basically we're talking about 4-6 hours of performance a day. Whew...gotta start working out. So there's the reader's digest version. I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am about this trip. I've always wanted to go to Japan. In fact I've had a minor closet obsession about it for some time now, hence the Japanese sleeve tattoo, the kimonos I wear around the house, and my vacuum like sushi consumption. The only thing better than going to Japan, is going to Japan to play music with a couple of the best people around. This whole thing is totally overwhelming. I'm shaking my head in disbelief as I type this. The whole 5 Cent Coffee phenomenon surprises me everyday plus our album is finally done and on the way (scheduled delivery Friday!!). On top of all that we are going to tour in freakin', motherhumpin' JAPAN!!! It makes my head swim and I think it will be sloshing around all the way until we touch back down on American soil on April 15th. Wow, now I need a drink. I've pasted our tour schedule below, check out some of the other bands we're playing with, they're awesome. Domo Arigato! 4/4 Friday @Tokyo: East of Eden: with: Akage No Muddys: www.myspace.com/akagenomuddys Yano Tadashi: www.myspace.com/yanotadasee 4/5 Saturday@ Yokohama Jug Band Festival: http://jugbandfes.vox.com/ Mad Words (Organizer's band): http://sound.jp/madwords/ 4/6 Sunday @Tokyo "MoonStomp Bar": with: Lightning Stacks: 　http://ip.tosp.co.jp/i.asp?I=lstacks&MD Ballad Shot: http://www.myspace.com/balladshot Mo' Lets Yano Tadashi: www.myspace.com/yanotadasee 4/7 Monday @Tokyo "MoonStomp Bar": with: Cauliflowers: http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/cauliflowers/ Kahiro Band http://www.myspace.com/kahiroband or kahirock.velvet.jp/ Gypsy Vagabonz: http://www.geocities.jp/gypsyvagabonz2/ or http://www.myspace.com/gypsyvagabonz 4/8 Tuesday @ Tokyo "MoonStomp Bar": with: Baron Nakazawa and worldwide lap band http://fine.ap.teacup.com/baron/ Bop Tateisi (no website) 4/9 Wednesday @Osaka: "Bar PowWow" with: The Bigood Band http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~bigood/index.html.html Yano Tadashi: http://www.myspace.com/yanotadasee 4/10 Thursday @Okayama "Bar blue blues" with: Fats Fujiwara http://www.myspace.com/fatsfujiwara Yano Tadashi: http://www.myspace.com/yanotadasee 4 12 Fukuoka--A plan with: Choinure Boys: http://www.myspace.com/choinure

This is the only quiz that is kind of cool.

Sanchez_Boon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:40:58 GMT

1. Put your music player on shuffle. 2. Press forward for each question. 3. Use the song title as the answer to the question. What does next year have in store for me? Papio - Sol K Bright What’s my love life like? Rock N' Roll - The Velvet Underground What do I say when life gets hard? Straight up to the Top (Vegas Version) - Tom Waits What do I think when I get up in the morning? War Pigs - Black Sabbath What song will I dance to at my "I got published" party Eyeball - Spitshine and the Heedless Pedestrians What do you want as a career? Aish Ye Kdish - Charming Hostess Your favorite saying? Sand Dog Blues - Tin Hat Trio Favorite place? Funky Monks - Red Hot Chili Peppers What do you think of your parents? Good Morning Blues - Leadbelly (this one's pretty accurate if you've ever been around my mom in the morning) Where would you go on a first date? The Air Conditioned Nightmare - Mr. Bungle Describe yourself? Woe - Tom Waits What is the thing I like doing most? Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash What is my state of mind like at the moment? Cheesus (Dance Mix) - Idiot Flesh How will I die? Street of Tubing - Charming Hostess What do you do when you see your friends? Round and Round - David Bowie How does your boyfriend/girlfriend make you feel? Flying Robert - Tiger Lillies How does your ex make you feel? Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits (It's random I swear!) If you were to die today, you would feel (like) Laundromat - Eskimo

5 Cent Coffee LIVE 3 times this weekend!

Sanchez_Boon — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:24:11 GMT

That's right! 5 Cent Coffee will be playing in all corners of the Bay Area in the next three days including all venues with with the words "Plough" and Probably "Star" as well. First: TOMORROW NIGHT: (Thursday Dec 27th) we will be playing at the Starry Plough in Berkeley with Freddy Parish and Winter's Fall. Come on out and have a post holiday cup of neo-skiffle junkyard blues! Next: Friday Dec 28th we will be playing an early happy hour show at the Ace in the Hole Pub in Sebastopol, California. We're playing 2 full sets form 4:30-6:30pm It's a free show, come on out have some BBQ'd oysters and a pint! Last but not least: We'll be rocking the Plough and Stars in San Francisco on Saturday night (Dec 29th) with the Dave Hanley Band, featuring our good friend Romona on Violin! Hope to see you at one or all of these shows! Here's the skinny: 5 Cent Coffee Winter's Fall Freddy Parish LIVE @ The Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 Thursday Dec 27th 9pm $5 Cover ---> 5 Cent Coffee Happy hour show! 2 full sets! Ace in the Hole Cider Pub 3100 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, California 95472 Friday Dec 28th 4:30-6:30pm No Cover!!! ---> 5 Cent Coffee Dave Hanley Band LIVE @ Plough and Stars 2nd & Clement San Francisco, California 94107 Saturday Dec 29th 9pm See you there! -Spitshine