Betalevel 5th Anniversary! Robot Fighting! Dragon Slaying! Various Festivities!
Saturday May 15
8pm, games begin at 9

THIS MUCH WE KNOW:

There will be Dragon.
Most likely, you will get to attack it. It may not be mighty in size, but it will be mighty in Presence.

There will be Robot Wars.
Or rather, wind-up toy wars. Which are a kind of robot, right? I mean, right? Wind-up toys are pretty small… But we have a lot of them!

There will be Festivities.
We’ll commemorate Five Years of Betalevel, and the nearly ten years that we’ve used our exquisite basement redoubt as studio, clubhouse, stage, and screen. We probably commemorate all this in various time-honored ways. You know the kind.

Undifferentiated Tissue: a birthday
Friday February 5 at 9pm
Free

William S Burroughs, Bob Marley, d g eng — What do they have in common? Well, let’s try and figure this out…

There’s that whole birthday thing of course. The devolution of all cells in their lock-step march into the gray fog of oblivion, which is what we’ll be focusing on this Friday. But to uncover the other hidden threads of interconnection among these units, we’ll use tools such as music, video, karaoke, and whatever options we have at hand.
Happy birthday, Dave.

“My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” – W. S Burroughs.

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Friday, September 18

Doors at 10pm
FREE

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DJ sets by:

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Black Panty Annie
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Piracy – Karaoke – Conviviality
Saturday, September 5, 2009
10pm until late
Free

So, you’re at work. And it is the boss’s birthday. So a couple of the project managers get a spread from a fancy deli. You know, prosciutto, soppressata, capicola. Except they keep referring to it as “charcuterie.” Which, maybe, seems a bit precious. But they’ve got cheeses and bread and some low-alcohol “lunch wine.” Olives. Almonds. It’s a pretty high class affair. Nice.

But then there are also these square things. Dark chocolate, with a graham cracker and marshmallow. And you’re thinking to yourself, “These are the fanciest Mallomars I’ve ever eaten.” And you’re not sure if a fancy Mallomar is a good thing or a bad thing. They taste good, sure, but isn’t there something slightly odd about tarting up a Mallomar? About making a Mallomar — of all things — into some sort of bourgeois delicacy? You’re enjoying the fancy Mallomar but you’re not sure if you’re enjoying the enjoyment. You know?

Because, when it comes down to it, you’re a woman (or man) of simple tastes. A woman (or man) of the people. If you were a South American dictator, you wouldn’t tour the villages in a Mercedes with tinted windows. No, you would be on foot, on a dirt road. With the people. YOUR people.

However, you think, it is always the populists that end up the worst of criminals, isn’t it? They are the ones who end up dipping into the state coffers and handing out contracts to their nephews. They’re the ones with the secret death squads. And, let’s be honest, if you’ve made it all the way to the level of “dictator,” you’re probably not really just “one of the people” anyway. It’s complicated, for sure. Because by being unable to enjoy the simple pleasure of a not-so-simple version of a simple dessert…

Man, it’s not even tea time and your head is spinning.

Well, lucky for you, we can guarantee to you that no such conundrum will face you at this month’s Swap Meet. For, while we are indeed celebrating Colin’s birthday this month, any and all Mallomars — if there be Mallomars at all — will be of the typical, store-bought variety. They will come in a bright yellow package that, in three-dimensionally rendered type, proclaims, “MALLOMAR.”

(Be warned, though, that when it comes to our beer selection you might just have a problem…)

Swap Meet is monthly celebration of the cultural commons organized by The Royal Academy of Nuts+Bolts and Superbunker. We have a poorly-organized music exchange, enthusiastically amateur karaoke, and an overall Betalevel open house with snacks and drinks for all.

What to Bring?

• bring: your singin’ voice and dancin’ shoes (optional)
• bring: some storage media and/or some music filez and/or your personal music device of choice (optional)
• bring: drinks, snacks, or a kindly donation (optional)
• bring: a defiant sense of joy in the face of our eroding cultural freedoms (required)

What to Sing?

Here’s the house karaoke list.

Piracy – Karaoke – Conviviality
Saturday, February 28, 2009
10pm until late
Free

Another month, another birthday party. More Safety Dance? We sure hope so.
Wooooooooooooooooooo!
[ bring a flash drive ]

What Is It?

Swap Meet is monthly celebration of the cultural commons organized by The Royal Academy of Nuts+Bolts and Superbunker. We have a poorly-organized music exchange, enthusiastically amateur karaoke, and an overall Betalevel open house with snacks and drinks for all.

What to Bring?

• bring: your singin’ voice and dancin’ shoes (optional)
• bring: some storage media and/or some music filez and/or your personal music device of choice (optional)
• bring: drinks, snacks, or a kindly donation (optional)
• bring: a defiant sense of joy in the face of our eroding cultural freedoms (required)

What to Sing?

Here’s the house karaoke list.

Saturday, November 29, 2027
10pm until late
Free

Good news!

The Swap Meet team has finally discovered how to open the temporal portal down at Betalevel!

We’ve of course always known that our basement redoubt was coincident with a major rift in the space-time continuum, but we were never quite sure how to overcome the issues with our maximum power load (remember Bootylevel?) to generate the 1.21 gigawatts necessary to pry it open. However, recent developments in cold fusion technology coming out of Europe, along with our own research into harnessing the power of crystals, got us thinking that maybe we were going about it all in the wrong way…

Long story short: the future is awesome.

And this Saturday, we’re throwing the doors open for a public test, setting the dial to 2027, so we can celebrate Sean’s 50th birthday. Trust us when we say that you won’t want to miss it. This is the Swap Meet your kids will tell you stories about!

• bring: your singin’ voice and dancin’ shoes (optional)
• bring: some storage media and/or some music filez (optional)
• bring: drinks, snacks, or a kindly donation (optional)
• bring: a defiant sense of joy in the face of our eroding cultural freedoms (required)

What to Sing

Here’s the house karaoke list.

What to Wear

There is nothing worse than arriving at a party in the future and realizing that you’re dressed like you totally came from the past. To this end, we’ve taken some snapshots of the latest trends from 2027, in case you want to dress accordingly (seriously encouraged)…

Please note:
According to recent legal decisions, inducing anyone to use physical space for the purpose of sharing music may render the space-time continuum illegal. Use the space-time continuum at your own risk. (But, this time, for realzz though. The space-time continuum ain’t nuthin’ to frak with.)

Make Swap Meet your friend