HR Fotoblogger 2012: August 2008

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

We Chin Chin

I went to a handful of shows last weekend. I missed The Dirty Projectors at the Seaport b/c of the rain, but Saturday was a perfect day to see Battles, Black Dice, and Gang Gang Dance at the Central Park Summerstage. And I ran into Zak and Nate and Jeannie and some of their friends after getting into the Bandshell. Gang Gang Dice went on first, a week after assuming the Boredoms' role on the East Coast leg of the sold-out 88 Boadrum project on 08/08/08. Black Dice were next, who sounded kind of muddled and not-so-great outdoors. But Battles made up for them, playing almost all of Mirrored. I have some viddys for Tij & Race In, with John Stanier looking like a fucking hummingbird playing the durms on the latter vid. After the show we all went to the Loreley Beer Garden on the Lower East Side, which is my new favorite place to drink. They only have fine deutsch hops served in liter and half-liter steins, and brots and schnitzels and things. And I made some new friends who share my affinity towards northern California bands like Hella. After that I went to Brynne's Bday party at Home Sweet Home and hung out w/ her and Maya and Tom.

Sunday was Aesop Rock, Panther, and Chin Chin at the JellyNYC Pool Party show at McCarren. I was going to buy a soccer ball to take out there, but the only ones the Adidas store on Bway had were $130 MLS balls. I met up w/ Natalia and Dominque before the show and we went and had lunch on the rooftop garden at Juliette on N5th in Williamsburg. I had an applewood bacon & gruyere juliette burger and an excellent bloody mary. Panther was kind of boring at the Pool, but Chin Chin was the shit. They sounded like a cross between !!! and a 70s prom band. And had some little kids come out at the end and play trombone and recorder, which was hilarious. Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, an DJ Big Wiz were up next, and El-P came out as a guest for one of the songs. I have vids for Big Bang, Daylight, and None Shall Pass up on my Youtube channel.

Monday night I went to at this place in Chelsea called the Half King. I met Lexie and Maya and Tom there for dinner & drinks after work and before The Faint show at Terminal 5/Maya's last night in the city before moving to LA for bidness school. We were sitting in the back garden having appetizers and salads arounds of Delirium Tremens and Yuenglings and Amstels, and Brooke Shields was there with a group of people at the table next to us. After the show Maya drove us up to the show. We missed Shy Child and caught the end of Antipop Consortium's set before The Faint. I hadn't been to T5 before, and it wasn't anything like I thought it would be. It was kind of like a not-lame version of Webster Hall, with better sound. Theres videos for Drop Kick The Punks and I Disappear on the aforementioned channel. Professor Murder, Free Blood, Don Cab, Islands, Japanther, and Yo La Tengo this weekend. Cheers.

1. Gang Gang Dance
2, 4. The Brothers Frentz/Summerstage Crowd
3, 5, 6. Battles
7-9. Tom, Maya, Lexie, Ellie @ Home Sweet Home & Terminal 5
10-12. Chin Chin
13-15. McCarren Park Crowd
16-23. Aesop Rock
24-27. The Faint/Terminal 5 Crowd

Thursday, August 14, 2008

All Points West

I went to the All Points West festival on Liberty State Park in NJ this weekend. I couldn't go Friday b/c I had to work, and it would have been nice to see CSS, Girl Talk, and The Go Team, but Saturday was pretty espectacular nonetheless. I got lunch and margs and headed out there around 230, which involved cabbing and ferrying over to the island. so I got there around 4, about 15 minutes after Metric had started their set. They played Combat Baby and Calculation Theme and some newer stuff off Live It Out, and Emily Haines was wearing a gold lah-may go-go dancer dress. Animal Collective was on after them, and all the joint shareholders in the crowd lit up dutifully as soon as they started their set. The 2nd half of which was very good, they even played Panda Bear's Comfy in Nautica and Brother Sport and some other newbies. Kings of Leon were after them, who were an acceptable placeholder before the Radiohead, though they were having some sound problems. Radiohead went on at 830 sharp and proceeded to play 25 songs over their 2 hour and 5 minute set, including a free-jazz version of the gloaming, an amazing acid-house version of idioteque (to close the show), and thom-on-drums for bangers & mash, which i viddy'd. I had to take the foot train to the light train to the PATH train to the E train to get home. But it was worth it. Dirty Projectors Friday, Battles/Black Dice/Gang Gang Dance Saturday, Aesop Rock Sunday, and The Faint/Shy Child on Monday. Cheers.

1-6. Riverdale BBQ
7-15. All Points West
16. Metric
17,18. Animal Collective
19-29. Radiohead
30-47. Yacht Rock

Other Music

!!!, abe vigoda, aesop rock, aids wolf, air, animal collective, antibalas, the arcade fire, architecture in helsinki, arctic monkeys, at the drive-in, bad brains, band of horses, bat for lashes, battles, be your own pet, beastie boys, the beatles, beck, beirut, belle & sebastian, beulah, big a little a, black dice, bikini kill, black mountain, blink 182, bloc party, blonde redhead, the blood brothers, the blow, blur, boards of canada, bonde de rolê, the books, boredoms, boris, braid, brand new, brazilian girls, the breeders, the brian jonestown massacre, broken social scene, british sea power, built to spill, cake, califone, calla, can, caribou, cat power, celebration, charlottefield, the chemical brothers, chicks on speed, chin up 2x, chromeo, cinemechanica, clap your hands say yeah, the clash, the clientele, clipd beaks, clor, coldplay, constantines, cornelius, css, the cure, daft punk, dan deacon, dance disaster movement, dandy warhols, de la soul, the dears, death cab, dfa 1979, deerhoof, deerhunter, deftones, deltron 3030, denali, destroyer, detachment kit, the dirty projectors, do make say think, the doors, doves, dragons of zynth, dungen, echo & the bunnymen, elbow, elefant, elliot smith, erase errata, escort, everclear, ex-models, explosions in the sky, the faint, the field, the fiery furnaces, figurines, the fitness, the flaming lips, flight of the conchords, fly pan am, fm bats, foo fighters, four tet, franz ferdinand, the french kicks, fuck buttons, fugazi, fujiya & miyagi, the futureheads, gang of four, gang gang dance, the get up kids, girl talk, glassjaw, the go! team, good shoes, gorillaz grizzly bear, group x, head automatica, HEALTH, the helio sequence, hella, holy fuck, hot chip, hum, i love you but i've chosen darkness, iggy pop & the stooges, incubus, interpol, iron & wine, islands, jaguar love, jamiroquai, jane's addiction, japanther, jens lekman, jimi hendrix, joanna newsom, the joggers, jonny greenwood, joy division, the juan maclean, junior boys, jurassic 5, justice, kid 606, kill me tomorrow, king khan & the shrines, king of convenience, kings of leon, kinski, klaxons, the knife, ladytron, lake of dracula, lali puna, land of talk, lcd soundsystem, le shok, le tigre, led zeppelin, les savy fav, liars, the libertines, lightning bolt, local h, the locust, love of diagrams, mia, madvillain, magik markers, man man, manitoba, marnie stern, the mars volta, maserati, matt & kim, mclusky, measles mumps rubella, melt banana, menomena, metric, minus the bear, mirah, mission of burma, modest mouse, modeskeletor, mogwai, moving units, muscles, ms. john soda, muse, my bloody valentine, mylo, nada surf, neon blonde, nervous cop, neutral milk hotel, new young pony club, nine inch nails, nirvana, no ag, nomo, the notwist, nouvelle vague, numbers, the octopus project, of montreal, okkervil river, oneida, ooioo, out hud, oxford collapse, panda bear, part chip, parts & labor, pattern is movement, pavement, phantom planet, pinback, pit er pat, the pixies, a place to bury strangers, the plastic constellations, plot to blow up the eiffel tower, porno for pyros, portishead, the postal service, pre, pretty girls make graves, professor murder, pterodactyl, pylon, q and not u, queens of the stone age, radiohead, the rakes, the rapture, ratatat, read yellow, red hot chili peppers, the redneck manifesto, the rentals, rilo kiley, royal, ruins, saul williams, sage francis, saves the day, the sea and cake, sebastian, secret machines, the shins, the sex pistols, shocking pinks, shooting spires, sightings, silver jews, silversun pickups, simian mobile disco, smashing pumpkins, sleater-kinney, soft circle, sondre lerche, sonic youth, sons & daughters, soundgarden, sparta, spank rock, the spinto band, spoon, st. vincent, stephen malkamus, stereolab, the stills, stone temple pilots, the strokes, sufjan stevens, supergrass, sunset rubdown, supergrass, susu, supersystem, tapes 'n tapes, ted leo & the pharmacists, the teenagers, tera melos, the thermals, these are powers, these arems are snakes, thunderbirds are now!, times new viking, tokyo police club, turing machine, tussle, tv on the radio, the unicorns, the velvet underground, vhs or beta, videohippos, the violent femmes, the walkmen, we versus the shark, the white stripes, weezer, wilco, wilderness, wolf parade, wzt hearts, yacht, xbxrx, yeasayer, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo.

Other Film

american hardcore, 28 weeks later, akira, a clockwork orange, amelie, basquiat, batman begins, the bourne ultimatum, city of god, children of men, the darjeeling limited, dig!, the dreamers, donnie darko, eternal sunshine, fargo, fear & loathing, fight club, goodbye lenin, harry potter, howl’s moving castle, igby goes down, i heart huckabees, just friends, kung fu hustle, lost in translation, margot at the wedding, monty python & the holy grail, napoleon dynamite, pan’s labyrinth, pirates of the caribbean, pulp fiction, ronin, rushmore, secretary, sex & lucia, sin city, shaun of the dead, slc! punk, spiderman, stranger than fiction, the big lebowski, the life aquatic, the royal tenenbaums, trainspotting, y tu mama tambien.

Other Television

arrested development, coupling, curb your enthusiasm, entourage, futurama, family guy, flight of the conchords, frisky dingo, harvey birdman, heroes, home movies, huff, it's always sunny in philadelphia, john from cincinnati, metalocalypse, project runway, sealab 2021, the simpsons, stroker & hoop, the office, the L word, the venture brothers, top chef, dexter, weeds, californication, wildboyz, aqua teen, south park, the daily show, the colbert report, rob & big, buffy, scrubs, that 70s show, everyday italian.

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