{"id":1263,"date":"2010-04-13T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2010-04-13T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:16:42","slug":"spaceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/spaceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By sheer chance, my arrival in LA happened to coincide with a free show at Spaceland&#8217;s April reident,  former fellow Amoebite, Jim Evens and his fine outfit, <a href=\"http:\/\/helenstellar.net\/pages\/home\/home.html\">Helen Stellar<\/a>. Following them were Burgess Tomlinson and Rona Rapadas, also Amoebites, but better known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.17ftjellyfish.com\/\">Healmonster &#038; Tarsier<\/a>, whose work I&#8217;ve always loved. And I love them even more now that Sara Rivas is playing bass for them<\/p>\n<p>I gotta respect Sara. A few years ago she decided to pick up the bass as a way, I think, of keeping herself busy and sane. She took some lessons and was soon playing for the Black Tales. Now she&#8217;s got regular gigs with the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nhusyL5JEMU\"> Bitchfits <\/a>(yeah, a distaff Misfits) and, light years away from that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vxBeHY8azLM\">Healamonster &#038; Tarsier<\/a>. Good for her.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;d have some excellent pics of the show, but they wouldn&#8217;t let me bring in my camera without permission from the booking agent, so here&#8217;s a craptastic iPhone snap of Sara onstage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Untitled-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1263]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Untitled-1-474x348.jpg\" alt=\"bass\" title=\"Sara Rivas on Bass\" width=\"474\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Untitled-1-474x348.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Untitled-1.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was good to see both bands do their thing, and especially cool to see Amoebites old and current, Rachel, Andrew, Katy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littleradio.com\/radio\/show\/the_mo_show\/\">Mo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/yogabbagabba.com\/\">Lance Rock<\/a>, Jen, &#038; AJ. It was like I never left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By sheer chance, my arrival in LA happened to coincide with a free show at Spaceland&#8217;s April reident, former fellow Amoebite, Jim Evens and his fine outfit, Helen Stellar. Following them were Burgess Tomlinson and Rona Rapadas, also Amoebites, but better known as Healmonster &#038; Tarsier, whose work I&#8217;ve always loved. And I love them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,262,44,21,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}