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graduate with an English degree." PARTY, FROM PAGE 6 7. snagged - This is when the line gets stuck or caught. This whooping I gave him in pool AND Aqua Velvets splash onto local scene happens to the best fishermen. darts last Monday. Get over it, Fishing the Delta Here on the Old River, the saying sweetness. Also in the->news< , a certain STAR ->editor<- had BY GEOFF DAWSON is "If your wearing nylons you' re noise distortion being pounded going to get snagged." Or some a sloshy wine time atAleworks that STAFF WRITER out by three ridiculous-looking BY CHRIS HENDRY thing like that. night. I think I saw her question dudes in sombreros. The clincher STAFF WRITER 8. bait - My uncle tells me ing the bartender about the lack of For a few wondrous hours last was the drummer, who constantly that there are four levels to be free parking on 3rd Street... Saturday evening, The Inn of the contorted his mouth while play Ahh, amidst the snow-<:apped, ing a baiter (one who puts bait Heckman Hoorah: Thanks for Beginning in Cotati balanced ing, causing his fake mustache to gray-faced mountains; the crystal on the hook) - poor, average, the shot of " ta-kill-ME" at the Yacht beautifully atop the towering wiggle obscenely. clear, tumbling streams; and the good, and master. I am proud Club. As if I needed it..couldn't you sonic wave created by surf bands After their second song, a crisp, fresh air; a fly fisherman to say that I am a master. tell I was busy clicking? 7th Day Rototiller and the Aqua study in contrasts between float stands in solitude. Above him, the Okay, now that you have I Found It: The gateway to the Velvets. The tides of alcohol and ing through a desert and being ran birds sing of bird things. Beneath the Old River vocabulary space-time continuum is located music crested into a tsunami of through a garbage disposal, 7th him, the beautiful trout swims in down, how about some seri on a couch on E. Cotati Ave. In silliness, leaving me gasping for Day Rototiller decided to clarify and out of fallen tree limbs. The ous fishing tips. Like I said it order to receive a ticket, you must air. This was my very first surf their identity. "We're Sonoma fisherman is the picture of peace. isn't that difficult. All you provide substantial evidence, in rock show, and from what I can County's lounge/surf/ punk alco Crack! I am awakened by the need is a package of 16 ounce cluding stool samples, that you remember, it was a great introduc holics ! " proclaimed the lead sound of a beer being opened in surf leaders, size 6 or 4 hooks, have had intimate relations with tion into this most excellent cat singer and guitarist. my face, but before I can get my a dozen 2 ounce weights, 7 at least three midgets. Also, traces egory of music. Whatever they are, 7th Day eyes all the way open, streams of pounds of clams, a six pack of of THC must be found in your Myself, and my entourage of Rototiller's sound is tight and sweat pour in. Screaming some beer, and some night crawlers. budstream. likewise inebriated friends ar well-orchestrated, with a definite thing unintelligible, I fall back Mix together, bake at a hun KSUN: Get over it, you whiners. rived at the Inn about 9:15 that punk sensibility. A lot of it is remi ward out of my piece of crap dred degrees, cast into the into Dancing Dildos: How about sparkling Saturday evening, ex niscent of Led Zeppelin's old camping chair and hit the hot dry the river, and wait. those shirtless fools at the Thurs pecting to be late as well as crunching, coordinated blast to dirt. The summer months are day Night Keg? It was like watch looped. To our surprise, we were the ears, with many of the same As I regain my senses, I can the best time for fishing the ing a bad re-enactment of a Ratt actually early, affording us even stop-time elements. smell clam juice and cow manure. delta and the really big catfish concert. Either that or a scarier more time to "prepare" for the Just when they were becoming A crop dusting plane thunders by, like to bite at night. Striped version of an ancient Grecian opening band. repetitive, 7th Day Rototiller trot blocking the hundred degree sun Bass are also plentiful, but priest orgy ritual. Screw it, you 7th Day Rototiller, Sonoma ted "Miss Carol" onto the stage. for a second. My Uncle helps me must be 18 inches in order to guys were drunk and amused me. County locals, set the tone for the Complete with sombrero and fake they left the stage as quickly as notes. jumpin' with their first two fiery up, hands me the beer, and tells keep. In my opinion, filleted Can I Have A TISHA, Please? evening by walking on-stage mustache, the full-figured woman they took it, leaving the room full Talk about making musical numbers, Corbin, dressed in a me that I better get my line in the perch are the best eating. Yeah, she was loaded. decked out in enormous sombre pushed the sound in an entirely ofelectricity,and workersremov- waves! The Aqua Velvets, San Hawaiian shirt and low-slung water because the catfish are bit Perch usually bite on night Quote Of The Week: "I HATE ros and egregiously fake mus differen( direction. The bassist ing and setting-up instruments. Francisco locals, with Miles derby, shouted, "You guys are in ing. crawlers that are floated with THE WALLFLOWERS!" - Cara taches. They introduced them switched to an upright, fretless As it became obvious the Corbin, lead guitar and the mood, huh?!" I smile as I realize that I am bobbers. Puccio, while leaping from the selves with a spirited, "Hola, bass, and then Miss Carol and her Aqua Velvets were to take the songwriter; Hank Meninger, gui- Without waiting for a re back seat towards the stereo. Two fishing the Sacramento-San ermen tell out here are not reel. and think it would be fun to jump Other fish in the delta in estamos 7th Day Rototiller!" and Rototiller backup took us on a stage soon, the crowd began to tar; Michael Lindner, bass, key- sponse, the Aqua Velvets began words - Nattie Ice. Joaquin Delta. More specifically, 2. rod - My uncle's drunk off the 50 foot bridge into four feet clude sturgeon, carp and black then roared into their first num funky floating journey to the land swell noticeably, numbering per- boards, and accordion and Donn laying out a rollicking version of Drunken Nightmare Of The the Old River in Tracy, Ca. I friend who is telling me that he of water. Some reel fisherman told bass. Any comments, ques ber. of soulful Spanish singing. hapslOOnow.Throughmypoorly Spindt, drums, churned up a "Falling Down." This was fol Week: I dreamed that I was have been fishing here, a camp once caught a 102 pound catfish me there was a 15 foot hole there. tions, or stories about fishing The scene began to get surreal This unexpected direction that focused beer-vision, I saw four whirlpool of aural delights with lowed by a superb cover of per trapped in the big RP for all of ground called Tracy Wildlife, for that had swallowed a whole 6. weight - As in, "I can' t that you would like to share, in a hurry, as the small crowd 7th Day Rototiller's show took middle age-looking fellows trot their perfectly choreographed haps the most famous surf song, eternity. I even had to work at seventeen years with my Uncle chicken. Rod is a reel fisherman. weight to get this clam smell off please email me at danced to the thunderous surf turned out to be the finale, and on-stage and casually announce jamming. "1964." The music took over my and Grandparents, and while it 3. line - Like the one Rod's my hands." or "I can't weight to [email protected]. * SEE PARTY, PAGE 11 they were the Aqua Velvets. They After they got the entire Inn of central nervous system, forcing may not be as majestic or peace drunk wife used on me yesterday. . ful as fly fishing in the moun "That's a big pole. Do you use it tains, the fishing here is usually often?" .. damn good. 4. hook - As in that was mean 'Ihe Moonlight THE ,,.,,, FOUL Lt~;drt;;;:h·c·~;;;:m;in~n;~;~M~;dr;;~to Though it is not difficult to fish left hook Rod's wife threw when this river for catfish, striped bass, I told her that while my pole or perch, there are a few technical works okay, her rod must be able 515 - $ounh Street, !Downtown Santa i{osa BY IMA POSEUR "They will walk out to the terms that you should know be to support a big fat fish. GHOST WRITER Cotati stank bars, sit in tight white BY DANNY AGUAYO for the most part is never on time from having the case continue that fore fishing here. 5. cast - What you get when * * # 'rekphone 526-2662 ~ * ~ trash tank tops on an ethereal STAFF WRITER or just never shows up for the oc day. During a five minute recess 1. reel -As in most stories fish- you've had a few too many b~rs And a voice boomed across evening. They will find they have casions he should be at. His ex to head to the "john," Fletcher the shitfields.. . reserve pints of Pabst somewhere What comes to your mind cuse is always either work, or hav bangs himself up in the stall with Voted BEST FESTIVAL of Sonoma County in '94, '95 & '96 THE MIGHTY MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL "Poseur... People will come, along the mung-bom bar where when you think of a ticket, but ing a one night stand in his office the toilet cover, throws himself at Poseur. They will come to.Rohnert they sat as children watching tery, greasy popcorn and a large with a fellow co-worker. Fletcher the wall, rips his sport coat, and .!!!.':, HEALTH & HARMONY Park for reasons they can't even Mommy arm wrestle the bar fountain drink? Movies? If you is always lying about anything continues on and on, to show the Jt Tuesday Wednesday Thursday fathom, tum into Sonoma State tender. It will be like they had thought movies, your answer is and everything. judge and the people in the court ARTS FESTIVAL Music & May 13th May 14th May 15th University not knowing for sure dipped some Copenhagen and right. One day, however, when he room that someone had beat him Arts & Crafts Goddess Temple why they are doing it." swam in the magic pooling spit in A movie was my idea on a should have been at his son's up, which by the way was a very, Health Exposition Ecology Exposition Co..L, !Jtni14)