S P A C E C O W B O Y S: Category Burning Man

FRESH AND SO CLEAN

PK — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:03:00 -0700

I’ve never been in August and thought about September before… there always seems to have be something between now and then, perhaps it always was always a large amount of dust.

Well with no dust festival in my immediate future, I’m already looking forward to our next FRESH at Shine. Always the first Friday after Burning Man, September’s FRESH always rocks… and its bound to be even better this time around, cause most of us will be um, fresh, or at least not have every orifice filled with some powdery dust; um, well maybe not all of us.

So for most of us Cowboys that are staying behind to man the ranch… we can’t wait for you to get back and and come on down to Shine on Friday the 6th, and hear all about it… (even though we all know it’s always better “last year”) particularly the surprise we have in store for y’all…

See y’all soon, and be safe now ya hear!

Fresh Catch - Friday August 1st

Andrea — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:30:00 -0700

The Space Cowboys present:
Fresh Catch
August 1, 2008
Shine(1337 Mission st.)
9pm – 2am

FREE b4 11pm in sea worthy costume
$5 after 11pm

What better place than the deep end of Shine to board the S.S. SassyFish for a night of Leo birthday’s and seasoned anemones shakedowns! Andrea Snorklefish and Kevin Whaledale are joined by the Blue Koosh for a seaLeo celebration in the aquatic way we know best! Free before 11pm if you come dressed as your favorite sea creature, pirate, sailor or crustacean.

Our first mates for your shine deck dancing pleasure:

MurphStarfish
Brad Penquinson
DJ Deckhand
with percussion by Kevin Whaledell

$5 cover for DJ navel academy fundraising
Free in fishy skins b4 11pm
$5 in landlubber attire.

Breakfast of Champions 2008

Aaron Jae — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:29:00 -0800

Tuesday, January 1st
Whisper – 535 Florida Street at Mariposa
$10, 21+, 6am til you cry ‘Uncle!’
Breakfast first come first served at 6:30AM

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS at WHISPER

It started 8 years ago as an after party to the infamous Space Cowboy NYE parties at the San Francisco Motorcycle Club. Today we all know it as that halfway point to the playa and the place to see everyone you know in San Francisco in the same place with a metric shit ton of your favorite local DJs and then some!

Special Guests:

Carbon Community (Moonshine/Bless Records)

...Super Special Guest (come early to see who it is)!

Space Cowboy 2008 DJs:

Brad Robinson
8ball
Mancub
Kapt’n Kirk
rrrus
Ernie Trevino
PureEvil
Aaron Jae
Bassben
J9
Brett Pinkin

BOC FOC (friends of cowboy) residents:

Benchun (False Profit)
Murphstar (SEISMIC)
Felix the Dog (Groundscore)
Shissla (House of Lotus)
Aaron Pope (Deep End)

Guest DJs:

shOOey (Deep End)
Trav (SEISMIC)
Mozaic (Nexus)
Moody Eva (Goodbeats)
Ding Dong (Brass Tax)

More Space Cowboy video and pics from BM 07

8Ball — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:51:00 -0700

Courtesy of Ziemba

Space Cowboys at the Deep End bacchanalia

8Ball — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:18:00 -0700

Mancub, Aaron Jae and 8ball playing post-playa party this Saturday at Mighty!

8Ball — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:00:00 -0700

Sunrise at the Hoe Down

8Ball — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:50:00 -0700

A peek inside the kimono

8Ball — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:02:00 -0700
For those who are interested in how the Space Cowboys sausage is made, here’s an excerpt from an email from Space Cowboy James sent a couple days before the event opened. Pootie and crew were ushering the Mog to the playa, and Steve J was driving up Martha, and both faced and overcame adversity:
Both Steve’s get extra bonus points for their mechanical first aid procedures on their way to the playa. First off, Steve J. started his Burning Man adventure Friday night with transmission problems with Martha, and was able to limp back home to Sacramento whereas he proceeded to stay up until 5am welding on the transmission fluid pan to get a water tight seal. Then, he was rewarded with a tire blowout 20 miles outside of Empire where he made the wonderful discovery that Martha’s spare tire had been effectively sealed off and unaccessible given all of Martha’s mutant vehicle modifications. After cutting out the tire with a metal grinder, he got to replace the tire with no lug wrench, and part of his jack missing. He arrived Saturday afternoon, finally!

Steve H. (Pootie) and entourage had their own fun with the Mog in Reno. After being delivered via flatbed to Reno, they discovered that oil had gotten into the gasoline mix and fried all of the spark plugs. After doing an oil change and cleaning, then swapping all of the plugs (what fun in the parking lot of a Kragen in Reno on a 100+ temperature day), they proceeded to get the truck running, blowing black smoke for a while. Then, again near Empire, after stopping the truck wouldn’t start again, due to a fried/dead battery.

Fresh from the Playa this Friday!

8Ball — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:58:00 -0700

Hello Friendly Cocksucker:

Hey, sorry if this announcement is a bit surly—the aggro glow of Black Sabbath Pancakes still hasn’t worn off, I haven’t gotten used to brushing my teeth with toothpaste instead of tequila yet, I’m still suffering from the playa-lag weariness that results from spending my sleeping hours in a virtual sweat lodge, and my interpersonal skills are on par with those of a schoolyard bully. We had a Metric Fuck Ton™ of fun out there this year, and amazingly I’m already missing all our friends and family from the playa. To help ease our reintegration into the real world, this month’s version of our monthly party Fresh will be a 1 week reunion, where we coach each other on the social skills and etiquette that might’ve been left behind on the playa, swap stories of misery and carnage from the Exodus, or just get hammered:

This Friday, September 7th – FRESH FROM THE PLAYA @ SHINE Music by Space Cowboy DJs Brad Robinson, Mancub and 8ball Come in your dusty playa gear! Shine – 1337 Mission Street $5 / 9 – 2 www.shinesf.com

XO, 8ball at spacecowboys dot org

design(pk.)

Not Another Fracking Playa Schedule

8Ball — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:26:00 -0700

Hello Friendly Person:

For the last couple days I’ve been getting schedules fired at me from DJs and theme camps so I’ll be sure not to miss single soul enriching moment on the playa.

It’s like Burning Man has become a multi-tracked convention, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing, but I have noticed that I’m stressed out. I’ve started an email folder just to hold onto all the reminders, schedules, lists, do not misses, that I’ve received. Next year we’ll all just load the whole playa schedule into Outlook and carry it around on PDAs. If in the future when BM finally stops changing year to year, Lonely Planet could get around to publishing the definitive tourist guide to BRC’s playa hot spots, corridors of bohemian charm, and hidden hoods “where the arty kids hang-out”.

Personally, I like the random shit. Maybe more than anything else. There are so many severely demented synchronous little scenes that just magically happen, like when a bunch of us were ridin’ dirty along the esplanade in Martha, and got pinned down under a barrage of fire from a pants cannon, and just before we could retreat someone pointed out that Adz had been abducted by some twisted game show, and before we could get him back on board the show host double-dog-dared him to publicly smear a handful of wasabi on his junk, which he did right before he started crying like a little girl. Only at Burning Man, man. There’s definitely value in the planned happenings, but never in a million years would anyone plan to put wasabi on their junk. Not planning is when the magic happens. (Unless you’re a stoner, in which case you probably never leave camp, you lazy buttholes.)

So, with that off my chest, I’ll now proceed to provide you, Friendly Person, with a list of Space Cowboy events and happenings that you will only ignore at the risk of your everlasting salvation, happiness, and enlightenment. Forget God, forget prayer, forget meditation—this is your one and only chance to get to heaven by attending all these events. Some of these events might overlap or be at the same time. That’s not my problem. If you can’t figure out how to be in two places at the same time perhaps you’re not worthy of salvation anyway.

xo, 8ball@spacecowboys.org (writer) & andrea@spacecowboys.org (editor)

+ OUR PLAYA EVENTS +

SPACE COWBOYS (Unimog)

KMOG – 104.1, live FM transmissions from the UniMog all week long in Black Rock City

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Monday Humouroboros Playa Premier! Unimog at sunset with the Monkey Snake himself!!

Unimog at Blackout at 12:00 & Perimeter Fence (directly behind the man) Midnight to sunrise with Friction, J9 vs. Evinrude , Haj , Flook , Random Rab, & Aaron Jae

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Tuesday Unimog at False Profit 3:30 & Esplanade with Mancub, Aaron Jae, Glitch Mob, and more

Aaron Jae 945-1030 at opulent temple j9 9pm-sunrise Get Lost 2:00 and Intertidal- look for an 8’ x 8’ Rubik’s Cube.

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Wednesday

We’ll be cruising over to the Deep End around 2:30pm for Mancub sets Space Cowboy tag team at 7pm with 8ball & Brad Robinson and more Unimog will be out and about, escorting the troops Mancub plays from 1-2am at Green Gorilla, 445-545 am at Rednose District

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Thursday Unimog at the Steam Punk Tree House – inner playa Space Cowboy Djs on the Unimog all night long

Space Cowboy DJs Mancub, Brad Robinson & Evinrude at Dustfish – 9:30 & Esplanade

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Friday Black Rock Hoe Down – somewhere out there Unimog and Space Cowboy DJs & Friends and very special guests Our annual BRC get down, hope to see you!

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Saturday – Paradox Lounge Happy Hour – starting at 4:00 & Esplanade and headed about the playa. We’re mobile!!

Saturday post burn – possibly Thunderdome Other shenannigans TBD

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Sunday Black Sabbath Pancake Breakfast at CAMP CARP Wouldn’t be Burning Man without an afternoon of the Ramp of Death

Sunday night – Temple Burn

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Evinrude suggests:

Pool Party in Reno – After the Burn Knaaponkrap Eatonswim – Afterburn Poolside – Sept. 3 & 4th Nexus in cooperation with all your friends proudly present the first annual Knaaponkrap Eatonswim Monday and Tuesday in lovely downtown Reno Nevada at the Grand Sierra Resort.

Lineup is being finalized and is scheduled to include a wide variety of the best the playa has to offer including some really good live sets from Ooah, Evinrude, Aaron Jae, Donna Matrix & more. Performance art, fire, go go’s, and such are included as well and anyone interested in lighting themselves on fire or freaking out in some way on stage is welcome.

Tickets at : www.brownpapertickets.com/event/19042 CODE WORD for discount rooms when calling the Grand Sierra Resort: ZBURN POOL PARTY LOCATION: NIKKI BEACH HOTEL: GRAND SIERRA RESORT 800-501-2651

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THEN – when you’re back in SF and can’t help thinking about us:

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Friday Sept 7th FRESH from the Playa at SHINE A Space Cowboys Re-union

With the fence-sitter djs:

Brad Robinson Mancub 8ball

Friday, Sept. 7th 2007 Shine – 1337 Mission at 10th 9pm-2am – $5 – 21+

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Saturday Sept 29th Love Fest – http://lovefestsf.com First in the Parade, rocking Civic Center, with Space Cowboy Djs and special guest Rogue Element.

We will have 241 passes forthe After the Love party at the Unimog during LoveFest

The Unimog will be rocking the best LoveFest after party with the Space Cowboys DJs on board.

SEISMIC presents AFTER The Love Love Fest After Party Saturday. September 29th 9:00PM – 5:00AM At Mighty, 119 Utah Street (@15th) $20 at the door before midnight

SLYDE – First SF Apperance! (Fingerlickin’ Records, UK) The Rogue Element (Exeptional Records, UK) International Breaks Award “Best Producer” 2006

Murphstar (SEISMIC) Emerge (Disfunktion Crew) Brett Pinkin (SEISMIC) Malarkey (The Juke Joint) Jive (FiX) And The Bootie Mashup Room with DJs: Adrian & the Mysterious D and Party Ben

Discount Pre-Sale Tickets and more info at www.seismicsf.org

BE SAFE~SEE YOU ON THE PLAYA!