Left my Brain in San Francisco

Chris Johansen works in my building. I know this is true even though I've asked him a couple of times if he is Chris Johansen he's said "no". A stern, curt no and a rapid departure. He wears wire-frame glasses but changes into thicker frames after work. He goes outside during the day sometimes, always with people from the Russian television station downstairs. What is the method to this madness? Does he work at RTVI? Does he speak Russian? Who ever heard of daytime and partytime eyeglasses?

This isn't about Chris Johansen or his glasses. But he is important because he's curating an incredible SF gathering in NYC tomorrow which features a few favorites and the true subject of this post- TY SEGALL.

You know we love one man bands and Ty is a 19 year-old one-man tsunami we can all stand behind. Just a drum and guitar, unhinged Coachwhips energy but bits of melody that they could never really settle down enough to capture. There's a soul and heaviness to the songs that belies and transcends the vessel/genre. The old is made new! Incidentally John Dwyer from the Coachwhips/Oh Sees is putting out his album which sort of seems like going back in time and putting out a record by a similar (but superior??) version of yourself at the same age but WHATEVER who doesn't want to do that? Ok, good tunes for the weekend from the record and even more on HISSPACE. Show info below

Ty Segall- So Alone
Ty Segall- The Drag

Awesome Vistas & Deitch Projects Presents
Us Again Festival
Saturday, September 27, 2008
1 - 9 PM
Ohsees
Linda Haygood
Sic Alps
Enablers
Dragging An Ox Through Water
Ty Segall
Flower Of Flesh and Blood
La Lus
DJ Doctor Deco

Market Hotel