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Chen Santa Maria

no costumes no practice

About Me

two guys first started playing together as megaweapon / fun santa maria. for a northwest tour in january 2004. changed the name in feb 2004 cause that was a mouthful. upcoming recordings on compilations, album on gssd

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/8/2004
Band Website: atasite.org/podcast
Band Members:

teve santa maria, george che
Influences: so far we've played shows with usaisamonster, yellow swans, sightings, hair police, open city, comets on fire, burning star core, rubber o cement, kites, prurient, hospitals, big techno werwolves, goofice, pedestrian deposit, warbler, i explode you, cold war, militant children's hour, exjesus, modular set, bettertoseeyouwith, felicia and coctopus, oscillating innards, corpsekisser, fred thomas, yacht, world, nudge, noggin, ultra boyz, joey casio, the sunken, monster dudes, pussy gutt, damion romero, mitchell brown, yuma nora, dead bird, axolotl, core of the coalman, belss, gregg kowalsky, bulbs, oaxacan, portland bike ensemble, hank iv, scarcity of tanks, sic alps, brown un, foque mopus, the moms, sword and sandals, 1&7 death, blues control, shepherds, raccoo-oo-oon, evan miller, necking, puttin on the ritz, urxed, shooting spires, extra life, castanets, oh sees, cars will burn, dave smolen, mincemeat or tenspeed.
Sounds Like:
Record Label: gssd
Type of Label: None

My Blog

mix

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?i d=263296459Playlist Description:my first attempt at a public iMix. seems easier than podcastingShe's My Best Friend - The Velvet Underground...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:04:00 PST

Lonesome George

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/science/08tier.html?em&ex= 1178856000&en=da996a77857240cf&ei=5087%0AA Lonesome Tortoise, and a Search for a MateE-MailPrintSingle PageReprintsSaveShareBy JOHN TIERNEYP...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Wed, 09 May 2007 02:35:00 PST

something about my third eye

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Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:36:00 PST

pet wake - feb 25

pet wake this sunday!bring a picture of your pet and some stories, you can share with other pet owners who have gone through similar experiences...oakland, 30th and broadwaysome music provided by happ...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:10:00 PST

thanks for coming to the party

man, so that was a weird weekend. thanks all for coming out on the 2nd to the capp street festivities. my actual sunday birthday was ablast of noise pancakes, fried goods, park action, apples to apple...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:11:00 PST

George's birthday show - Dec 2, SF

Put together a show for my birthday, it'll be here and thesee arehte details, hope you can make it.December 2nd, SaturdayClub Sandwich Presents:JANA HUNTERCORE OF THE COALMANDYING CALIFORNIANLAZARUSJA...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:44:00 PST

hollow sense of accomplishment

thank you thank you, for putting us over 1000 myspace friends. we couldn't have done it without you. or could we? also the album (yes, we have an album, 8 tracks) is finally mastered. coming out somet...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:36:00 PST

your weekend - planned by CHENSANTAMARIA

You like music right?2 nights in a row at 21 Grand...Thursday Oct 5th - Club Sandwich PresentsHank IVSic AlpsScarcity of TanksChen Santa Mariaall ages, 8 pm21 Grand, Oakland///////////////////Friday O...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:29:00 PST

bad metaphors

okay, so i started reading hte bootyman's blog entry about how good productive normal americans are sheep, alarmist kneejerk conservative hawks are "sheep dogs" and, i don't know, anyone who is brown ...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:37:00 PST

my people

so i had a dream this morning where i was at a show and this immigrant chinese family was selling my comp. I was so baffled that anyone would bother to bootleg my comp, and then i was grilling them li...
Posted by Chen Santa Maria on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:10:00 PST