yes.

So we are preparing for a great show tomorrow night at Cafe Du Nord...hope you will all come out. We have a new song we're debuting called Lusk...its a story about mothers and sons...and its some of the best work we have done in a while...we are also trying our hand at a cover or 2 tomorrow...should be quite interesting indeed.

So the show starts at 9 with SF's very own Top Critters-they are amazing and are also good friends of ours so please come early to support them...you won't be sorry.

Then at 10 it's Twilight Sleep from LA. We have played with them in LA and we are excited to share the stage with them again. We play LA again with them on Monday...
Then at 11 yours truly...

And of course all night long the elusive and handsome DJ Tasho.

So come early, ready and as always, correct

Ben.

Ben and a boy with buckets last night at Guerrero Gallery...

ADA
Twilight Sleep
Top Critters
DJ Tasho
July 29th @ cafe du nord...

check out these pictures...

these are my (i'm Richard by the way) children...my son just turned 5 on the 10th...he asked for a suit.

He loves Jonathan...don't let the picture smile fool you :)

michelle took these pictures...Henry loves her too...

our dear friends...

so tomorrow night (saturday) our friends are opening an art show. its at Guerrero gallery and it looks to be a pretty amazing night. Along with the art there will be music...lots of it...The Fresh and Onlys, Bronze and ADA's own Ben Andrews will be there with his guitar and his bucket boy...

you can get the gory details here: http://guerrerogallery.com/
also here: http://www.kevinearltaylor.com/journal/

Weight Perception
Guerrero Gallery, July 17th - August 7th
Curated by Andrew Schoultz

Imagined weight can be heavier than real weight, sometimes to the point where our perceptions apply more pressure and gravity than what can actually be accounted for. How does this happen? In today's world, where environmental disasters of tragic magnitude have practically become the norm, where ongoing wars are being fought simultaneously on multiple fronts, and where we’re in the midst of the worst economic catastrophe since the great depression, it’s apparent that we are living in "heavy times". In some way or another, each of us carries the weight of our times, if not in a physically tangible way, at the very least in the mind. How are we dealing with all of this? What is the current state of contemplation surrounding it? Where does the resulting energy find a resting place? Can bad things actually be transformed into good?

It is not the intent of this exhibition to address any of these issues directly, as much as it is to address the individual’s unconscious and conscious responses to the current state of affairs that dominates our political and social landscape. Oftentimes, we attempt to escape the heaviness, through expressions of laughter, serenity, or even music. Sometimes, we attack the weight head-on, using pent up energy that inevitably needs to find its release somewhere. In this exhibition, eleven artists address this placement, both definitively and abstractly, and in the two-dimensional and the sculptural. Featuring new work by Ben Venom, Casey Jex Smith, Glen Baldridge, Harley Lafarrah Eaves, Kevin Taylor, Kyle Ranson, Laurie Steelink, N.Dash, Shelter Serra, Thomas Øvlisen, & Vanessa Blaikie.

We invite you to join us for the opening reception of Weight Perception:

Guerrero Gallery
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
6:00PM - 11:00PM
2700 19th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Ph: 415.400.5168

don't forget about ADA at Cafe Du Nord on the 29th...

show show show...

We just confirmed a show...
July 29th at our beloved Cafe Du Nord here in San Francisco.
It will go down like this:
First-SF's own Top Critters: gypsy circus rock with excellent instrumentation and a few excellent personalities.
Secondly-Twilight Sleep: our new friends from sunny LA-innovative and fabulously coiffed gals who rock in the vein of Karen O crossed with Steve Albini.
Then of course, ADA with new songs in tow including a smattering of interesting and excellent covers...
Naturally our good friend DJ Tasho will entertain between band sets.

So there you have it. come one, come all.

A Decent Animal
Twilight Sleep
Top Critters
DJ Tasho

Cafe Du Nord
July 29th

www.myspace.com/adecentanimal
www.myspace.com/topcritters
www.myspace.com/twilightsleep
www.myspace.com/61655989
www.cafedunord.com/

well well well...

Let me just say i think i speak for all decent animals everywhere when I say the show the other night was fantastic! We really really enjoyed ourselves and really really appreciate everyone coming out. It felt like a real hometown show to us and considering how much we love SF that meant a lot.

So thats all...keep in touch everyone.

Songs are up on www.myspace.com/adecentanimal
thoughts and feelings are up on facebook
nothing much is up at adecentanimal.com

but check this out: http://www.stsanders.com/www/pages/videos/guitar-shreds/slash-shreds.php

this website has been around for a while but we just discovered it and boy howdy...hilarious!