Bay Blogger Thursday

SFist: We're here chatting with Popvulture, DJ and personality for Pirate Cat Radio's "She Said/She Said," and fellow blogger. Afternoon, Popvulture!
Popvulture: Ahoy matey!
SFist: Popvulture is, as always, coming to us from Feline Island, somewhere in the San Francisco Bay. How's the weather out there? As crappy as it is in the Mish?
Popvulture: It's always wet out here on Feline Island, particularly when our show is on. We're all very wet during the show. *Ahem* Get your mind outta the gutter! We paddle out to the island using flippers. We strap them on -- flippers and masks -- and somehow manage to make it out onto this tiny island in the Bay without detection from the authorities, all while towing sacks of beer and hard liquor on our backs. We do all this for you...
Popvulture: The island is very tiny, and does not show up on maps. That's how we avoid the FCC.
SFist: The FCC? Are you saying that you're an outlaw?
Popvulture: When you say "outlaw" like that it sounds so sexy.
SFist: Well, it's a sexy show! The waterbed hangup? Cooing over the Gavster?
SFist: So tell us about the other folks out there on the island.
SFist: We know there's some shes and some hes that you work with.
Popvulture: Well, sure, you're totally right -- we're sexy motherfucking outlaws. But, then again, we don't feel like we're breaking any sane laws. We're just trying to have some fun and provide some much-needed radio entertainment to all the San Francisco dwellers who have been unfairly denied good radio for a long time. We're like the Robin Hoods of our time. Really it's Monkey --the Pirate Cat Radio founder-- who is the true Robin Hood of Bay Area radio. We are just happy he's invited us to assist in this sexy and outlaw-ish cause.
Popvulture: Think of all the SF radio listeners who have pent-up personal waterbed hook-up tales that they need to tell on the airwaves. Where would these people be without us?!
Popvulture: We are truly doing a much-needed service to the city.
SFist: Yeah, don't hear a lot of that on the ClearChannel, Disney, Infinity stations, etc.
Popvulture: Gavin should thank us. Rather than just leaving us dirty heavy-breathing voice mails all the time...
Popvulture: And you should hear our Matt Gonazalez voice mails!
SFist: He does have that "trademark rasp" as SFist Eve pointed out.
Popvulture: Thank god both of those guys have MUCH bigger vocabularies than Pat O'Brien...
SFist: SFist wishes they both could be mayor!
Popvulture: So do the ladies of She Said, She Said... and the guys...
SFist: So who do you think is going to run for state or national office first?
SFist: We've heard rumors about both.
SFist: Do you think Matty G's rugged good looks and sensitive demeanor could win over Southern California voters?
SFist: Or do you think Gavin's slick style is more appropriate?
Popvulture: Well, from what we've heard -- and we certainly have our deep throated sources -- it may actually be Matt. Matt could clearly work some kinda MTV "Rock the Vote" tie-in.
SFist: Those Docs are sooooo "rawk" with the suits.
Popvulture: Or maybe that Al Gore cable channel -- Current -- would be more Matt's thing...
Popvulture: [laughs]
SFist: Yeah, well...
SFist: Matt's a Green.
SFist: And Gore came out for the Gavster.
SFist: There may be some bad blood there!
Popvulture: And you know what they say about the color green...
Popvulture: It allegedly gets the ladies riled up.
Popvulture: And if you went to Matt's mayoral parties... He throws the better throw-downs and we at She Said, She Said really appreciate that.
SFist: Oh, totally.
SFist: SFist ran into Matt at the Zeitgeist one time -- we're not holding our breath waiting to run into Gavin there.
SFist: And rockin' with Peter Camejo at 111 Minna on that first election night...that was hott.
Popvulture: [laughs] Well you never know once Gavin starts cultivating his edgy side and comes out to the public with his new Pirate Cat Radio DJ girlfriend.
SFist: SFist agrees, that would be a good move.
SFist: Do you think Gavin's been treating the straight girls well, lately?
Popvulture: Well, it made me a tiny bit jealous the way he was eyeing Eve last week.
SFist: Sure, the whole gay marriage thing made him popular with a lot of ladies. But there's one breeder woman in particular we think he could have served better as a constituent...
SFist: But she moved to another district, as we all know.
SFist: Took her Jackie O dresses with her, too, we assume.
Popvulture: He called me later to let me know that their interactions were strictly platonic -- it was totally a making- nice- to- the- fierce- independent- online- press type of thing.
SFist: Well, we just hope he scoops you up before he lays his hands on that cutie in the Mayor's Office of Communications.
Popvulture: Gavin is going through a tough time right now, so let's all go a little bit easier on him.
Popvulture: We Pirate Radio DJs have been a little bit easier for/on him, for sure.
SFist: So yeah, introduce to the other DJs! Who are their not-so-secret crushes?
SFist: We mean, besides Rufus Wainwright.
Popvulture: Matt used to be our favorite but then we saw him a few months ago at the Rickshaw Stop grasping the hand of an obvious Marina Girl. Though we're all about the "girl power," the Marina Girls are our sworn enemies. And Matt really let us down in his dating choice. At least for that night.
SFist: Well, we have it on good authority that Matty G has a wee crush on SFist.
SFist: Not that we got invited to his firm's first party...
Popvulture: So, there's Party Robot. You may know him from "Party Robot's Weekly Drink Review." Last week he reviewed The Club Long Island Iced Tea. In a can, of course.
SFist: Verdict?
Popvulture: It didn't make us sick, so it was better than last week's drink, the generic canned Manhattan.
SFist: You mean Radar? Ooooooh, snap!
Popvulture: Party Robot's secret crush is Nancy Pelosi.
SFist: Awwwww...
Popvulture: [laughs]
SFist: How about Mrs. Lachey? How'd she take the whole thing about the divorce?
SFist: Is she going to sue E! Online or what?
Popvulture: She already has hitmen out after those E!Online "journalists."
Popvulture: Mrs. Lachey only has eyes for her husband, Nick. However, she loves to regale the listeners with tales of high school hook-ups and heartbreaks in her segment "Songs That Made a Young Girl Cry in 1987."
SFist: SFist loves that bit!
SFist: Because, of course, crying girls are the easiest to hook up with when you're a teen...
Popvulture: Yes, at sixteen she would lay in her waterbed alone at night listening to the radio and crying about how "the boys didn't love her enough."
SFist: See what we mean?
SFist: That's, like, guaranteed second base!
Popvulture: The next moment Yaz would come on and she'd be dancing in her underwear around the room.
SFist: Unless, of course, you're her "sensitive friend."
Popvulture: Exactly, and crazy sexy party girls like us need sensitive male companions.
Popvulture: That's where Carrion Boy comes in...
SFist: Carrion Boy is one hunk of man-meat, that's for sure.
Popvulture: He is supportive of our needs and yet cynical of everything all at the same time.
Popvulture: He has gotten the most offers for dates from listeners, actually. I need a few more calls this week and I could surpass him. But it's gonna be tough. This is San Francisco, after all...
SFist: We wished Carrion Boy left more offensive comments on SFist.
SFist: He can go off on a tangent like few people we know.
Popvulture: Dickford Cheney -- Dick Cheney's little-known son -- called us a few weeks ago and told us in colorful detail about the intolerable humiliation and physical abuse he endured before he ran away from home as a young boy to join the Bicycle Rodeo. At the end of the call, Dickford asked our Carrion Boy out for drinks at the Odeon -- may it rest in peace -- but our Carrion Boy broke his heart and turned Dickford down. I was telling him he should do it, because we need more insider info...
SFist: Maybe we could hook Dickford up with our new pal Peter Everhard -- he's been hanging around in the comments and seems lonely.
Popvulture: Let me just warn everyone out there -- our Carrion Boy is very discriminating when it comes to dating. He will go off on any tangent imaginable, but not off on just any date, it seems.
SFist: Well, we're sure some cat has her claws in him -- reeow!
Popvulture: He grew up in SF and experienced the Folsom St. Fair from a young age.
SFist: We hope it was as part of a school field trip.
Popvulture: And then there's CityGrrl...
Popvulture: She may not be old enough to remember the 80s, but she's always ready to party like Wang Chung.
SFist: Yeah, who's she crushin' on these days?
SFist: Tell us it's not Harry Reid.
Popvulture: Hold on a moment. Let me ask her.
SFist: While we wait, please enjoy the soulful sounds of Lyn Collins -- man, you'd better Think (About it)!
SFist: [musical interlude]
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SFist: [vibraphone, chorus, then swelling strings] K-F-S-T, San Francisssscooooo...
SFist: [basso voce] The Fist, baby!
SFist: [musical interlude]
SFist: That was It's Just Begun by the Jimmy Castor Bunch. We're back with Popvulture. So who's CityGrrl hott for these days?
Popvulture: She has a lotta crushes!
SFist: Awesome.
SFist: You never can pick just one.
Popvulture: Ranging from...
Popvulture: Dr. Hal to Michael Franti of Spearhead to Barry Zito, the A's pitcher. She also mentioned that she crushes on a certain male SFist editor.
SFist: Well, Cheshire's married...
SFist: Wait!
SFist: Sweet!
SFist: Though Barry Zito -- even we admit he's dreamy!
SFist: Especially on the mound, but that's SFist Jake's beat.
Popvulture: Now City Grrl is poking me.
SFist: Seriously, we'll buy City Grrrl a beer anytime!
Popvulture: And saying that Phil Bronstein may trump all of those. Except maybe you, SFist.
Popvulture: It's between you and Phil.
SFist: Tell City Grrrl that we can verify he's only into blondes.
SFist: But he may make an exception, because he also likes girls who aren't taller than he is.
SFist: Sorry, Phil, but it's totally true.
SFist: Okay, moving on (call us, CityGrrrl!)...
Popvulture: Have you noticed that the Pirate Cat Radio FM signal is reaching further and further around the city everyday? It's even in the Sunset now...
SFist: We've heard that.
SFist: And, of course, you can always listen to it on the internets!
Popvulture: That is true. But the interweb is for geeks! Of course, there are a lotta hot geeks out there...
Popvulture: And our She Said, She Said listeners have been clinically proven to be cuter and smarter than the average radio listener.
SFist: No doubt.
SFist: There's the Gavster, Matty G, Kim-Kim, Phil-B...
Popvulture: Our favorite show is definitely 2 Friday's ago, when we lamented on-air that we didn't have a beer opener.
Popvulture: We not only had a guy calling us from Canada and patiently guiding us through the process of using a counter top to pop 'em open, but...
SFist: Someday, SFist will teach you the lighter trick.
Popvulture: ...we also had a guy from the Sunset district who drove out to Feline Island (he had one of those WW2 DUK vehicles) and brought us a cold, high-quality 6-pack
SFist: We love San Francisco! The people here are awesome.
Popvulture: We may not get paid for our on-air jobs, but as long as these cute and smart people keep offerring us booze and dates and calling us up and telling us their favorite hook-up stories on-air, we can carry on with our weekly labor of laahv.
SFist: We think that you should consider it a public service. It's important to give back to the community.
SFist: So when you're not on the air, what other hott PCR content do y'all listen to?
Popvulture: I listen to PCR all the time when I'm in the city. 87.9 FM is the only station worth having programmed in your car! All the shows are awesome, but here are some of my faves:
Popvulture: For music -- Stinkytown with Bad Boy Bobby comes on from 8pm-10pm on Friday nights after our show. He is truly a guru at selecting eclectic rock and blues tunes.
Popvulture: Also, PCR founder Monkey Man's show from 8-10pm on Wednesdays is great for punk, goth, and electro stuff. And Thursday from 2-4pm in the afternoon with Headphonerecord is fun too.
Popvulture: K-ROB's show from 6pm-midnight is prolly the most unusual soundscape you'll hear on the FM dial
Popvulture: For talk stuff, The Unka Lynnee show from 6-8pm on Thursdays is totally rad.
Popvulture: Also, Fat-a-Tat-Tat from 4-6pm on Wednesdays
Popvulture: One more thing I love about PCR is that you never know what's happening when you turn it on. It's beautifully unpredictable -- like Wednesday night one of the DJs (I forget who) was interviewing a filmmaker about his documentary on Daniel Johnston. I didn't even know what they were talking about at first, but just listening to the banter was fascinating...
SFist: We heard y'all were maybe looking for some new personalities -- what are you lookin' for in a host or DJ?
Popvulture: Monkey is looking mostly for funny, edgy personalities to do talk shows on news and politics issues.
SFist: Did you hear, that readers?
SFist: Go get your snark on!
Popvulture: City Grrl is poking me again. Her latest crush (as of 46 past the hour) is Craig Newmark.
Popvulture: Like all the gals of She Said, She Said - our City Grrl gets around.
SFist: Again, SFist has the inside dope...
SFist: Says he has a girlfriend.
Popvulture: Awwww, you're breakin hearts!!
SFist: Sorry...
SFist: But he told us himself in our interview when we asked if he used the personals.
Popvulture: How can you be so cruel to young girls in lust?!
SFist: We're so sorry, City Grrrl.
SFist: We've heard Jonathan Abrams...well, nevermind.
SFist: *cough*choad*cough*
Popvulture: Luckily, we have a stash of beer here in the studio. So we will all be consoled.
Popvulture: [laughs]
SFist: Of course you can tune into She Said/She Said on Friday if you want to hear "Only in San Francisco" stories, but would you be willing to give us an exclusive, Popvulture?
Popvulture: Of course, SFist.
Popvulture: So, when we were first on-air, we had no idea how many people were listening to the show in SF via FM, so we would talk about a lot of parties and things going on.
Popvulture: We figured maybe we had 30-100 people listening, and that they were mostly people who we knew.
SFist: Bloggers sure know how that feels.
Popvulture: Yes, and after 8 years (8 years!?!) as a blogger I should have been prepared for this...
Popvulture: But anyway -- we figured it was just a small group of listeners and so we felt like "OK we can talk about some friends parties and invite the listeners."
Popvulture: And then a friend was having this big party at his castle -- yes, it really was a castle...
Popvulture: And we announced the location of the party on-air, thinking maybe like 10 people would show up...
SFist: SFist was there the night before, so we were too tired to go.
Popvulture: We were at a BBQ the next day.
Popvulture: And another friend told us that the party was off the hizzy with like 500 people or more there -- and she said at least 100-200 didn't seem to know anyone and had come from listening to our show on Pirate Cat. That really freaked me out and blew me away.
Popvulture: Also, she told me that a lotta these PCR listeners didn't bring beer. A major party foul, people!
SFist: BYOB, kids!
Popvulture: So, I realized the power of being on the FM dial and that I would use this power for good: you know to remind people to bring beer to the secret parties we announce, change their underwear, and floss before making out.
SFist: Well, it's been grand, Popvulture.
SFist: Really, awesome. Thanks for your time.
Popvulture: You rock, SFist.
SFist: Anything you want to say to our readers before we sign off?
Popvulture: Yes. Everyone who has a story about a hook-up in a waterbed that they're dying to tell...
Popvulture: Call us on Friday nights between 4-6pm at (415) 401-7393.
Popvulture: Put the number in your phones!
Popvulture: And call us when you're drunk!
Popvulture: Also, keep sending the laahhhv and beer...
Popvulture: Thanks!
SFist: Thank you, Popvulture. Again, that's She Said, She Said on Pirate Cat Radio, 87.9 for all your waterbed hookup discussion needs and a new weekly news update from SFist Eve. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming...