Set the controls for the heart of the sun: The Che Underground’s quarter-century reunion looms ever larger — so large, in fact, that one night just couldn’t contain it.
Now scheduled for May 29 and 30 at Tim Mays’ legendary Casbah Club in San Diego, the event will comprise:
Friday, May 29:
The Answers
The Gay Dennys
(featuring members of the Tell-Tale Hearts and the Crawdaddys)
Manual Scan
Everybody Violet
Saturday, May 30:
Hair Theatre
Noise 292
The Wallflowers
The Mirrors
DJ P-Man
Your friends are all running the show!
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i’m plotting my escape as i type. looks like megan and i might be arriving solo. heh. look out!
Geez Ava, what do you have planned?! xo
I’m excited! Flights are booked! Car is rented! I’m ready for some spicy carrots.
My folks will be in Mexico when I arrive, so I’ll have my parents’ house to myself for the first couple nights.
Isn’t this the moment when we find some 50-year-old to buy us beer, call everyone we know, and hope neither SDSH nor SDPD breaks up the party? 🙂
I think you’re also supposed to dance in your underwear to some Bob Seger records.
Your parents are out of town? Party at Matthews!
sweet! yep, i’m in. let’s score at tower liquor and hit matthews.
Enough of us are in recovery that maybe we score some nice iced green tea and do a little yoga. Oh, and hope the SDPD or SDSH don’t break it up. (Although who knows? Arturo may simply unroll a mat and join us in a few asanas!)
No worries! I can mix a mean Roy Rogers!
i like the yoga idea better. been sober for a while, too. that other bit was a joke, for sure!
We’ll slam Shirley Temples and then someone on a mad sugar high will bring a fence in the house! 🙂
haha!!! k, you are killing me. i have a story about a few of the guys actually filching a coin op horsey ride from out front of a store and bringing it into a house. talk about huge electric bills. 😉
ava, that is hilarious. reminds me of the story of the plaster sheep which disappeared one evening from the Christmas manger scene in Balboa Park. her name became Sheila and she began wearing bright red lipstick.
hey guys
yoga
meditation
you can count me in
but you can give green tea to my wife
im still a stone coffee drinker
I am also down for some downdog and meditation.
Good studio downtown on 6th/B street.
what is the take
for a family picnic
im available
to help
any way i can that could create
good energy
Family picnic will rock! Babies are fascinated by me … They may think I’m Santa. Oh, and I can twist balloons if anyone thinks that’s necessary.
well lets get
on the good foot
santo mateo
shall we have vegetarian
and play play play those
che cafe blues
Mr. Damian: I’m prepared — nay, eager! — to eat my body weight in Smart Dogs and play Bo Diddley until beaten into submission.
submission for what? did someone say submission?!?
j/k.
k, what’s the name of the studio? maybe you, me, megan, lori, robin, et al can go for early morning yoga one of the days. let’s look at schedules so we can do that!
how about soyrizo con papas
w/ roasted peppers
and beans
a side of polenta
baked tofu soaked in
organic red chile sauce
wrapped up in handmade tortillas
mr matt roth
did you say recovery
omg that sounds delicccccccccccccccccious !
Yeah….Lou, that sounds like an absolutely phenomenal picnic plate! YUM!!
I’m salivating onto my keyboard..
well we gotta
do this one up
we all deserve it
dave remember
rain parade show
@ the backdoor
1983
dave klowden was
totally responsible
for meeting yawl
played answer tunes today
for my boys who r
15 and 20
pretty cool chit
>>did someone say submission?!?
All right, all right … I’ll eat my body weight in Smart Dogs out of a dog dish, wearing a studded dog collar, and twist balloons for the children until the police come and haul me off.
Lou: I, too, am salivating at the prospect of this repast!
>>did you say recovery
Actually, I said “Discovery”: So many of us have watched Discovery Channel science shows on the effects of alchohol and other substances on the human body, we’ve committed to a much healthier lifestyle. Thank you, basic cable! 🙂
“maybe you, me, megan, lori, robin, et al can go for early morning yoga one of the days”
I am also open to late morning and post-nap yoga. I am so looking forward to seeing you guys!
>>I am also open to late morning and post-nap yoga.
Megan: Thanks for the reminder … We completely forgot to add napping to the gig itinerary! At my age, a nap opens every show — and is often the headliner. 🙂
how long have you been
in “discovery”
mtt rthnbrg
when you get
here
better bring a chair
with ya
cause you are gonna trip
real hard at what ya see
and bring your
groove-a-lator
at my age i now consider naps to be the holy grail. as a single mama i rarely get them. ::sigh:: but yeah, naps rule.
matthew, i would pay hard earned cash to see that. cash, i say.
that menu sounds amazing. how can i help? i won’t have a kitchen, but i have a willing heart and can do whatever, run errands, go to whole paycheck and get things, etc. let me know.
megan, me, too!
kristen
i believe is
planning the picnic
i can help with food
give me all your suggs
your wish is my command
what’y think kristen
Lou:
Let’s talk picnic on our email. I need help planning!
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or
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Sorry folks. I don’t do Bikram. is too stinky.
is too hot and blood pressure risery.
i look forward to doing asanas with you.
k, i can help w/picnic. let me know.
I can help with the picnic and anything else. Is there still a Rent-a-Wreck in SD? I’ll get a big ol’ Country Squire and be designated schlepper.
I’ll do yoga too if you promise not to laugh.
no laughing allowed!
we should both pitch in for the car.
Should we just rent a Winnebago?
ha!
Rent A Wreck
3740 5th Ave
San Diego, CA 92103
619-260-1673
i’d say “road trip!” if i didn’t just book my flight yesterday. ah, just imagine…ava leaves a-town in the “winnie”, picks me up in SF, and continues down to SoCal…
and megan! are you somewhere along way? (funny i wrote that up above, but i put the text within the “less than / more than” signs, so it didn’t show up. ha! must have thought it was a URL.
Absolutely! take a left and pick me up in Brooklyn. Beep twice. I’ll bring snacks!
this is in 3 months. already. i better get my 60’s boots to the cobbler.
lori, i’d be down if time weren’t of the essence. but in march hen and i are in north bay for a night or two, we should talk.
megan, girl, geography bugs me. you know that. i wish all our locations could be picked up and put together, like legos.
anyone know how to ‘tesser’ like mrs. Who in “A Wrinkle in Time”?
i. wish.
{m} veddy cute. ><
{a} yes, plz. let’s hook up pre-ché, if possible.
jsy{k}, i can’t dance worth a S@&%. but i LUV to watch. call me a voyeur. xo
Lou: I definitely remember Rain Parade, Backdoor of Perception ’83!
so jazzed to hear you’re spinning the soundtrack of wayback for your boys…
What’s all this talk of tea, yoga and veggie food.
When I hit town it will be shredded beef taco’s at the beach with a beer……..
mark
best beef tacos in
san diego
are at
las cuatro milpas
in logan heights
I’m with you Mark--I miss SD Mexican food sooo much! And bring on the beer. Arrogant Bastard is brewed in SD!
las cuatro milpas
in logan heights
there is always a LINE….. I also enjoy Porkyland right down the street from las cuatro milpas.
Also the fruitlandias…..yummy fruit salads with raisins, coconut and cottage cheese and honey
licuados
dave
do you still possess
that
national steel guitar
pgargoyle
there is also a newer place
called
el rey
on 25th & brdwy
in gold hill
real fleshy portions
there is also
taco trailer
in linda vista
serves mini tacos
for 1.50
>>real fleshy portions
“Fleshy Portions” is my new stage name!!
La Posta
El Cuervo
Or any f ing Robertos, Stomberots, Humberto’s or Numbertos will do me just fine.
Mmmmmm
I wanna go to La Vuelta in Tijuana. They’ve got a hell of a sound system — maybe we can do a set!
Damn, I’ve gotta hit the gym. (Saying this thinking about the 1/2 a Monte Cristo Sandwich I ate at Disneyland yesterday. Fat dipped in fat, and fried in fat. Mmmmm.) (Don’t get me started on taco shops.)
In the “hitting the gym” line.
Lou:
Wish I still had that national resonator guitar…that was Dave Anderson’s dad’s guitar. I think he got it through the Sears catalog in the 50’s…?
I borrowed it and kept it for as long as I could, even took it with me when I moved to New York. Great, great old guitar, and loud!
Dave’s dad was really cool about me basically stealing it from him for several years but finally I had to give it back.
Many great singalongs in Balboa Park and elsewhere with that guitar..
I’m going to twist myself a new set of abs out of balloons!
Dave Anderson’s parents deserve a medal! Of course, so does Patrick’s mom …
Wow, we should make up some kind of special Che Underground certificate of recognition: “Thanks for the ridiculous shit you put up with when you were grownups and we were kids!” 🙂
matt
im down for la vuelta
dont forget your
passport
Matt, Lou (hello!)- La Vuelta! hell yeah!
I went last year and they still have the fully miked mariachi horns. And great queso fundido.
cool paul
with matt fleshyportions
leading the way
we could have a little
funk-folk festival
yes to the certifications. absolutely to pats mom, shawna and jodys mama, and a posthumous award to dirks father.
Right on, Ava. That’s a great idea for a thread, by the way: There were several parents who tolerated (even encouraged) ridiculous behavior on the part of their kids and never gave up on them. I hope my son will feel the same way about me someday that Pat feels about his mom. I’d like to give mention to Bruce and Carol Klowden, Tom and Judy Rusk, Lou Bacher, and Tom Stoup, for putting up with some especially ridiculous crap.
An aside: Mike McCarthy’s mom became my unexpected Facebook cheering section when I was having a micro-midlife crisis over my last birthday. “You’re just a BABY!”
Helen Benson McCarthy is one very cool lady.
ava thanks for
mentioning dirks father
i know ray brandes folks
are saints
dirks dad put up with the most insane stuff. he was a good guy. i can still see that house in point loma like it was yesterday.
monicas mom is up there on the rad scale, too. she took me in a lot.
and kevin donaker-rings mom? well, she’s still someone i consider a friend. she’s awesome. truly.
Mike McCarthy’s mom put up with untold atrocities! Truly the most patient mom ever. That’s “Kasey and Mike’s” mom, actually. Kasey also put up with a ton- from my corner anyhow. Kasey was the absolute best- always game for an adventure.
other folks to consider
denise reynolds mom
whos house i went
to when i had to
leave home
she also had
the distinct pleasure
of cutting jerry cornelius
hair
paul hokness dad
used to buy us
two cases of heineken
on friday nites
so that paul would
stay home
and
later tried everything
to keep paul sober
what a dude
Cole’s looking forward to eating beef tacos? Man, you’re gonna see what you were missing when you lived in SD… haha.
Lou Damian…
I am in a tizzy…I mean…
I am super excited to see you
in a friend sort of way!
I have many fond memories
of hanging with you
at the
Madison Ave flat
back in ’85…
I hope we can get
a good chat in at the
pic nic.
I know the show
will be too loud
for me
to mingle
very well
with
others!
Yeah,
I also am
very fond of
La Posta
and
El Cuervo
for some hearty
Mexican food….
I am excited to eat
and play!
kristy
wow thats great
i go by that old
madison place
evr’y day
on
the way to
twiggs cafe
where i get
a double short caffe
remember when
you and cathy
worked at pannakin
you girls were
real sweet
look forward
to seeing ya
My mom took in stray miscreants like orphaned kittens. My dad had killer pot. Ah the good old days. If you guys are serious about a picnic why not have it at Kate Cessions Park. I am sure a big part of the crowd attending the Che shindig will have memories of misspent nights rolling in the grass.
Oh yeah, Las Quatros Milpas.
Quatro
milpas
mike, how come we only knew each other after the mod days??? how the hell did we meet anyway?
Ava
How we met is lost in a haze of drunk and a fist full of KY. Speaking of mexican food the hotdog wrapped in bakin on the streets of TJ were way better than los tacos de graza en pinchi quatro milpaz, per is soloment los rablings de pinchi baracho gabacho.
dork…
you always knew you’d been to tj, and that it wasn’t a bad hangover memory of walking up and down the ramps, when you woke up with mustard on your fingers. those damn yummy street cart hotdogs.