Went to a show last night.  Weird venue, the terminal, in Fruitvale, sort of a converted lower floor former storefrontish space, generally empty with some chairs and a cute coffee table.  One side of the room was a pile o' amps and mischenany. Four bands, religious knives from NY (i left early and missed them), crystal village(Greg Kowalsky under a pseudonym, from Oakland and lucky(skilled) enough to be on Kranky, suprisingly tender sounds considering the night in general, some bowed cymbal and bell and computer drone, short and sweet),  Frlgrnd (jen's friend josh+1, drummer mixing freejazz and doublebassed metal i guess{okay} and josh playing a ton of pedals and guitar with much loudness and looping, ebbed and flowed, great tone) and cotton museum (from detroit(?), tall long hair hovering over a table of pedals, kinda boring and par for the method.)

all in all a great night and it seems more and more of these are washing up here in Oakland. Will post pictures later.

got my processing patch to load images from flickr. rad.

some links:

religiousknives.com

gregkowalsky.net

processing aka rad programming language