Friday, June 26, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
First show playlist
THE WHO - SUMMERTIME BLUES (STUDIO VERSION)
HOT ROD MOVIE CLIP
THE BEAT - WALKING OUT OF LOVE
THE FACES - STAY WITH ME
BLACK LIPS - STARTING OVER
THE BEACH BOYS - THAT'S NOT ME
DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE - EVERYTIME I'M WITH YOU (FEAT. JASON LYTLE)
BLONDIE - SUNDAY GIRL (FRENCH VERSION)
STATUS QUO - PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN
P.C.U. MOVIE CLIP
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT - ON A ROPE
THE ENGLISH BEAT - MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM
MOS DEF - AUDITORIUM (FEAT. SLICK RICK)
STILL FLYIN' - AEROSMITH TAKE ME TO THE OTHERSIDE
BEAT HAPPENING - INDIAN SUMMER
DEATH - KEEP ON KNOCKING
DEAD WEATHER - HANG YOU FROM THE HEAVENS
THE HANGOVER MOVIE CLIP
GRINGO STAR - ALL Y'ALL
URIAH HEAP - THE WIZARD
STRANGE BOYS - HEARD YOU WANNA BEAT ME UP
WRECKLESS ERIC - WHOLE WIDE WORLD
THE KINKS - PICTURE BOOK
THE FALL - VICTORIA (KINKS COVER)
GRIZZLY BEAR - TWO WEEKS
KILL BILL MOVIE CLIP
KAREN O AND THE MILLION DOLLAR BASHERS - HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
WILCO & BILLY BRAGG - CALIFORNIA STARS
RIC FLAIR CLIP
GENTLEMAN JESSE & HIS MEN - YOU DONT HAVE TO IF YOU DONT WANT TO
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - THE LAW IS FOR PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE
GUIDED BY VOICES - A SALTY SALUTE
LOVE – 7 AND 7 IS
THE WHO - SUMMERTIME BLUES (STUDIO VERSION)
HOT ROD MOVIE CLIP
THE BEAT - WALKING OUT OF LOVE
THE FACES - STAY WITH ME
BLACK LIPS - STARTING OVER
THE BEACH BOYS - THAT'S NOT ME
DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE - EVERYTIME I'M WITH YOU (FEAT. JASON LYTLE)
BLONDIE - SUNDAY GIRL (FRENCH VERSION)
STATUS QUO - PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN
P.C.U. MOVIE CLIP
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT - ON A ROPE
THE ENGLISH BEAT - MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM
MOS DEF - AUDITORIUM (FEAT. SLICK RICK)
STILL FLYIN' - AEROSMITH TAKE ME TO THE OTHERSIDE
BEAT HAPPENING - INDIAN SUMMER
DEATH - KEEP ON KNOCKING
DEAD WEATHER - HANG YOU FROM THE HEAVENS
THE HANGOVER MOVIE CLIP
GRINGO STAR - ALL Y'ALL
URIAH HEAP - THE WIZARD
STRANGE BOYS - HEARD YOU WANNA BEAT ME UP
WRECKLESS ERIC - WHOLE WIDE WORLD
THE KINKS - PICTURE BOOK
THE FALL - VICTORIA (KINKS COVER)
GRIZZLY BEAR - TWO WEEKS
KILL BILL MOVIE CLIP
KAREN O AND THE MILLION DOLLAR BASHERS - HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
WILCO & BILLY BRAGG - CALIFORNIA STARS
RIC FLAIR CLIP
GENTLEMAN JESSE & HIS MEN - YOU DONT HAVE TO IF YOU DONT WANT TO
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - THE LAW IS FOR PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE
GUIDED BY VOICES - A SALTY SALUTE
LOVE – 7 AND 7 IS
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Monday, June 22, 2009
a good show last night at TT the Bear's in Cambridge
Sleepyhead: sounded good from the bar, but really muffled. I realized halfway through that I saw them in '95 or '96 in New York. Nice, catchy indie-rock from the pre-irony days.
the Bevis Frond: got bummed out by this one. I'm sure Salomon was great; what I could make out of the songs was pretty fantastic. But everything was muffled if you weren't directly in front of the stage, and it was so packed I couldn't even begin to get in position. So I stood off to the side again, near the bar, and couldn't understand a single word he said. His banter was as great as his songs when I saw him back in 2001, and it sucks I wasn't able to really enjoy this.
the Condo Fucks: okay, yeah, totally awesome. We weren't sure what we'd be getting: a live run-through of the Fucks LP? A more traditional YLT covers set? Maybe even Yo La Tengo songs? It was almost completely the first of those, as they tore through pretty much the whole album. It sounded amazing, raw and frenetic and better than most of the young bands plying this nonsense. A brief encore consisted of an as-yet-unreleased Yo La Tengo song (short, poppy, noisy, kinda generic riffs) and then a Tall Dwarfs cover in tribute to Chris Knox. That latter song saw Nick Salomon, the two folks who backed him up on his last few songs, and all of Sleepyhead jamming along on stage. About halfway through Ira jumped off stage, walked through the crowd, and strutted on the bar for a few minutes. Good times. Good to see dudes, good to see good people playing good music, good to go to a show and not down a drop of alcohol. Not good to get about five hours of sleep, but fuck it, totally worthwhile.
Sleepyhead: sounded good from the bar, but really muffled. I realized halfway through that I saw them in '95 or '96 in New York. Nice, catchy indie-rock from the pre-irony days.
the Bevis Frond: got bummed out by this one. I'm sure Salomon was great; what I could make out of the songs was pretty fantastic. But everything was muffled if you weren't directly in front of the stage, and it was so packed I couldn't even begin to get in position. So I stood off to the side again, near the bar, and couldn't understand a single word he said. His banter was as great as his songs when I saw him back in 2001, and it sucks I wasn't able to really enjoy this.
the Condo Fucks: okay, yeah, totally awesome. We weren't sure what we'd be getting: a live run-through of the Fucks LP? A more traditional YLT covers set? Maybe even Yo La Tengo songs? It was almost completely the first of those, as they tore through pretty much the whole album. It sounded amazing, raw and frenetic and better than most of the young bands plying this nonsense. A brief encore consisted of an as-yet-unreleased Yo La Tengo song (short, poppy, noisy, kinda generic riffs) and then a Tall Dwarfs cover in tribute to Chris Knox. That latter song saw Nick Salomon, the two folks who backed him up on his last few songs, and all of Sleepyhead jamming along on stage. About halfway through Ira jumped off stage, walked through the crowd, and strutted on the bar for a few minutes. Good times. Good to see dudes, good to see good people playing good music, good to go to a show and not down a drop of alcohol. Not good to get about five hours of sleep, but fuck it, totally worthwhile.
Tonight!!!
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Friday, June 19, 2009
things that will exist in the world
1. I'm seeing the Condo Fucks on Sunday night. If you haven't, track down their record, Fuckbook; it's amazing.
2. There's going to be a video game adaptation of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. Yeah, the sexually explicit movie where Charlotte Gainsbourg crushes Willem Dafoe's balls and cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of scissors. Apparently it's going to be bundled with Microsoft's Project Natal.
UPDATE: I didn't even notice the MTV dude made the same Natal joke. Shit, my thoughts are so commonplace.
3. RIP Georgia Theater. What a massive bummer. At least nobody was hurt, apparently. The France played an unusually good (for us) show there in 2002; maybe we'll finally put Greg Vagen's recording of that online somewhere.
1. I'm seeing the Condo Fucks on Sunday night. If you haven't, track down their record, Fuckbook; it's amazing.
2. There's going to be a video game adaptation of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. Yeah, the sexually explicit movie where Charlotte Gainsbourg crushes Willem Dafoe's balls and cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of scissors. Apparently it's going to be bundled with Microsoft's Project Natal.
UPDATE: I didn't even notice the MTV dude made the same Natal joke. Shit, my thoughts are so commonplace.
3. RIP Georgia Theater. What a massive bummer. At least nobody was hurt, apparently. The France played an unusually good (for us) show there in 2002; maybe we'll finally put Greg Vagen's recording of that online somewhere.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
more E3 notes and random game stuff
Ghostbusters: The Video Game review
thoughts on Dark Void, Lost Planet 2, and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Punch-Out!! review for the Herald
coming soon somewhere: thoughts on the Uncharted 2 beta and one or two more E3 posts.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game review
thoughts on Dark Void, Lost Planet 2, and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Punch-Out!! review for the Herald
coming soon somewhere: thoughts on the Uncharted 2 beta and one or two more E3 posts.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
E3 thoughts at various places
The Beatles: Rock Band and Lego Rock Band
them new-fangled motion control things
E3 overview for the Herald
and shit yes more to come...
The Beatles: Rock Band and Lego Rock Band
them new-fangled motion control things
E3 overview for the Herald
and shit yes more to come...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Monday, June 08, 2009
a toast to fame
The stars came out to shine as anonymously as possible at E3. I saw some dudes here and there:
Steven Spielberg (we made eye contact; he gave me a preemptive and reluctant "hello")
Rich Sommer (Harry Crane from Mad Men / that dude from those few eps of The Office)
Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove from Mad Men)
Verne Troyer (tooled by on a tiny scooter three feet in front of me as I was talking to Allyn; he looked sad and/or pissed)
Jacob Gentry (not at E3, but before seeing Drag Me To Hell)
Andy Dick (sat three seats down from me and Crog at Drag Me To Hell)
Martin Starr
that dude from Super Troopers who's marrying Christina Hendricks
together these talented men could no doubt produce an entire summer's worth of blockbusters.
The stars came out to shine as anonymously as possible at E3. I saw some dudes here and there:
Steven Spielberg (we made eye contact; he gave me a preemptive and reluctant "hello")
Rich Sommer (Harry Crane from Mad Men / that dude from those few eps of The Office)
Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove from Mad Men)
Verne Troyer (tooled by on a tiny scooter three feet in front of me as I was talking to Allyn; he looked sad and/or pissed)
Jacob Gentry (not at E3, but before seeing Drag Me To Hell)
Andy Dick (sat three seats down from me and Crog at Drag Me To Hell)
Martin Starr
that dude from Super Troopers who's marrying Christina Hendricks
together these talented men could no doubt produce an entire summer's worth of blockbusters.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
E3
yeah, I played some games. Steven Spielberg said hello to me. Together we snorted the ground-up bones of Dennis Hopper and played some Lego Rock Band. Dude sucks at the drums.
yeah, I played some games. Steven Spielberg said hello to me. Together we snorted the ground-up bones of Dennis Hopper and played some Lego Rock Band. Dude sucks at the drums.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
