Reader Neb checked out the OUT SIDE ART Block Party yesterday and was not impressed:

Your $5 donation, although for a good cause, is purely profiting of Banksy, whose work was locked away behind bars.  Ironic.

The only way to get past the fence was if you were “Artists and Staff.”  Therefore this was the best shot of the work Neb could get:

Artist DYNO uploaded a few shots of his and other's work to his tumblr.  You can read all about his experience here:

Every child deserves a crack at the cliche “one time at band camp” line.  But for those of us who went to public schools, we know all to well that music and arts programs are always the first to get cut when the district's budget runs dry.  

But there's one thing that never seems to run dry around here: ALCOHOL.  The good folks at Education Through Music - Bay Area, knowing that San Francisco's most renewable resource may very well be its insatiable appetite for booze, have assembled a crack team of ETM Young Associates (we're talking 21+ volunteers, not Elementary School Kids as hilarious as that would be) to guest bartend at Elixir tonight.

From 9pm to 2am tonight, you can harass some people I know while they feebly try to apply white-collar job skills to bartending (with the best intentions).  Be sure to give the asian one extra shit (and tips) because she thinks she's too cool for SF and plans to move later this week.  Feel free to tell her that I sent you.

Facebook event thingy is here.

Tomorrow at 6:30, David Choe will be at SFMOMA's Haus Atrium signing copies of his awesome street art coffee table book*:

This dynamic monograph captures the frenetic raw energy and gorgeous, intense work of gallery and street artist David Choe. From dropping out of art school to a stint in Japanese prison to representation by the Lazarides Gallery alongside Banksy, Choe's wild ride through the art world is represented by a major selection of images, and narrated throughout by Choe himself. Graffiti, murals, paintings, sketchbook pages, photographs, toys, t-shirts, collages, artwork created with blood, and more fill the kinetic pages — all annotated by the artist in a voice that matches the funny, frantic, daredevil nature of the work itself. Join us and meet as David Choe signs copies of his new book. (link)

The book's highlights include an entire page of iPhone sexts, a Korean bodega owner with a pitbull and a TEC-9, and matzo getting wasted off of Manischewitz.  You can buy the book for $45 tomorrow at SFMOMA or get it on Amazon $30.

* I know “coffee table book” can be insulting, but it's a hardcover book of street art, tits, iPhone text messages and blood.  What the fuck did you expect?

Everyone's favorite Bay Area music blog, The Bay Bridged, is having a fundraiser this Friday, featuring a lot of local talent that I am completely unaware of because they are not Aqua cover bands.  That said, it's The Bay Bridged, so it's going to be A WICKED GOOD TIME.

Band info.  Ticket info.