Larry-bob - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Into sparking culture, politics, and creating fusions between the two. Cultural activism, independent music, spoken word performance and event production, as well as involvement in electoral politics are the areas in which I try to reach these goals.
My website and long-running zine (since 1989!) is www.holytitclamps.com
I play piano in the band the Winsome Griffles with with my buddies Jack and Brad -- please Friend the band's myspace page!
I book an Americana music night on the first Wednesday of each month at El Rio , 3158 Mission St.
I do the weekly queer cultural calendar for the SF Bay Area, Queer Things To Do aka SFQueer.com
Kirk Read and I co-host the montly spoken word, music, comedy, and performance open mic Smack Dab at Magnet
I maintain the QComedy.com website - Nick Leonard produces the shows.
My partner Tommy keeps me happy and well-fed. Did I mention that he and I are vegetarians?
I maintain a listing and announcement email list of Queer Bands on Tour , Queer-friendly venues , and Queer Spoken Word performers and venues.
The blogs I read are at http://www.bloglines.com/public/larrybob My favorite website links are at del.icio.us/larrybob
I use Last.fm and have been posting music-related blog entries there.
It's spelled Larry-bob even though my email addresses tend to leave out the hyphen and make it larrybob.

My Interests

Queer culture outside the mainstream.

I'd like to meet:

Socially active people who get out and do stuff.

Music:

Winsome Griffles, Antony and the Johnsons, Momus, Magnetic Fields, Hidden Cameras, Big Star, Big Black, Rites of Spring, Richard Strauss, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Robyn Hitchcock, Flaming Lips, Aphex Twin, The Bad Plus, 12 Rods, Arcwelder, Walt Mink, Scratch Acid, My Bloody Valentine, Red Clay Ramblers, the Big Boys, Babes in Toyland, Team Dresch, Pansy Division, Scott Walker, Dolly Mixture, The Pipettes, James Booker, Professor Longhair.

Movies:

Chinatown, Pink Flamingos, the Cockettes, Plaster Caster, Grey Gardens, Thundercrack!, Flaming Creatures, Lonesome Cowboys, Tarnation, Benjamin Smoke.

Television:

Spaced, Brass Eye, The Prisoner.

Books:

Plan B 3.0, Lester R. Brown; Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz; Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas; Closer, Dennis Cooper; Briefly Told Lives, C. Bard Cole; Interesting Monsters, Aldo Alvarez; Rat Bohemia, Sarah Schulman.

Heroes:

Steve Abbott, Harry Hay, Walt Whitman.

My Blog

the MBV index: Judging relative popularity of music networking sites

I've got a ticket to see My Bloody Valentine in San Francisco on Sept 30. I'm a member of a bunch of different music networking sites. I joined to try to promote my events, though it doesn't see...
Posted by Larry-bob on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:38:00 PST

RIP Lawrence Braithwaite

I just learned from reading one of author Kevin Killian's Amazon.com reviews (you really need to subscribe to the RSS feed of Kevin's reviews) that Canadian black queer skinhead writer Lawrence Ytzhak...
Posted by Larry-bob on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:42:00 PST

Vaginal Davis installation in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

There is a current group show at the museum in San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - it’s a group show of women artists.The opening of the show was last night.There’s stuff from ...
Posted by Larry-bob on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:06:00 PST

New Virtual You workshop on internet arts publicity Monday March 3

"A New Virtual You" How to advance your work, your art, yourself via the internet Presented by Independent Arts & Media, Lilycat.com and AccessSF.org TIME & DATE: Monday, March 3 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m....
Posted by Larry-bob on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:08:00 PST

Queerpunks.com interview

There's a new interview with me posted at Queerpunks.com. They asked me about my queer cultural work with my websites, zines and mailing lists, and about the Winsome Griffles. There was also another i...
Posted by Larry-bob on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:27:00 PST

Destroy Bourgeois Cabaret and other last.fm rants

I like posting my rants on last.fm because when I refer to music I can link to the music I mention... I just posted my previously unpublished rant "Destroy Bourgeois Cabaret"Other last.fm rants: "It's...
Posted by Larry-bob on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:38:00 PST

Winsome Griffles CD Progress

I had kind of a freakout this morning when I got an email from the woman at the CD pressing plant saying "your CD master has 14 tracks, but I only see 10 tracks on the track listing."I didn't have my ...
Posted by Larry-bob on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:26:00 PST

Winsome Griffles east coast tour and help request

Hey folks -- My band the Winsome Griffles has got the basics of our little east coast tour in place:Friday October 12, 9 pm: Free show at Otto's Shrunken Head in New York City.Saturday October 13, 9 p...
Posted by Larry-bob on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:14:00 PST

Cultural Complacency

There is a phenomenon which I call "cultural complacency" where there are cultural experiences people could have without too much effort, but they do not make the effort to have the experiences. They...
Posted by Larry-bob on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:04:00 PST

Closing of Carroll and Graf publisher harms LGBT books.

Consolidation in the book trade has continued, including the closing of Carroll & Graf -- see these articles: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6441065.htmlhttp:/ /www.calendarlive.com/books/cl...
Posted by Larry-bob on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:29:00 PST