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Friends w/ Benefits

I went to a party tonight at Mama Calizo’s Voice Fac­tory, an art studio-space downtown(ish), where my friend Jesse is cur­rently the artist in res­i­dence. He’s throw­ing a big performance/show called “Total Facts Known” next month, and this party was a ben­e­fit (title make sense now? Haha, get it?!) for that. While there were a hand­ful of great per­form­ers, I didn’t shoot much dur­ing the evening. But! Here are some gems from when I did — they are mostly from Lil’ Miss Hot Mess/Sweetcheeks’ per­for­mance at the end of the night.

NSFW

If you’re in SF next month, “Total Facts Known” runs Sep­tem­ber 20th, 8-10PM at Mama Calizo’s Voice Fac­tory (1519 Mis­sion St. @ 11th). Check the flyer…I’ll be in atten­dance and you should totally come with!

Sometimes Shit Gets Fierce

On Sun­day, I did a most-radical scav­enger hunt in cel­e­bra­tion of a friend’s birth­day. We ran-a-muck through the Mis­sion in search of items to meet our list of clues. It was also dur­ing this party that I offered to help Team Cham­mee with their sea­son finale entry for The Stud’s “Project Run­tover” com­pe­ti­tion, which was to take place the fol­low­ing evening…I went in know­ing very lit­tle, but that was part of the fun!

Up until last night, I had never been to The Stud (Har­ri­son x 9th), nor had I ever entered a com­pe­ti­tion of this type. But I fig­ured, what a great way to do some­thing cre­ative (and new) on a Mon­day night…afterall, what else would I be doing? Sleep­ing? Cha’h! “Project Run­tover” is an elab­o­rate Project Run­way–themed gath­er­ing in which con­tes­tants cre­ate teams and spend the hours of 10 to mid­night con­struct­ing a look. The finale was wed­ding themed and the past win­ners all went head-to-head in a no hold barred bat­tle of style. I know what you’re think­ing, and hell yeah, shit got fierce. Check it out:

Here’s Team Cham­mee ready to cut a bitch:

What we’re work­ing with:

Matt aka Dirty Hair­less (for the night):

Half way through the com­pe­ti­tion, the rules changed: teams work­ing on men’s gar­ments had to switch it to female and vice versa. We had about 40% fin­ished of some sort of tuxedo by then, which we flipped into a gown. Sashé!

Chanté!

The other queens got ready too…

Almost there!

Show­time! Did I men­tion that we had a per­for­mance? Matt lip-synched for his life to Etta James’ “Stop the Wed­ding”.

Makin’ the crowd go wow:

I don’t remem­ber what team this was, but it was fairly wild…

That’s Shady Bear:

And of course, Raya Light. I think this was my favorite pic­ture of the evening:

What a blast. Unfor­tu­nately, we only got hon­or­able men­tion, but the experience…fuck yes!

Well Put Mr. Fish

Just came across this video thanks to Fecal­Face. I like it because not only doest Mr. Fish talk about his upcom­ing solo show, “Ghosts of the Bar­bary Coast”, but he also dives into some inter­est­ing his­tor­i­cal SF tales and how they’ll tie into his upcom­ing gig. I think he’s right when he describes the “type” who flock to this city (watch the clip and you’ll know what I’m refer­ring to); I know that upon com­ing here, I too, felt that way. The show itself opens THIS Thurs­day, Decem­ber 4th, at FIFTY24SF. I’m look­ing for­ward to it. A lot.

Oh! and speak­ing of FIFTY24SF, I’ve joined the ranks at Upper Play­ground’s HQ as an intern. My first meet­ing is tomor­row! Stoked!

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