HR Fotoblogger 2012: September 2008

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Your English Is Good

These are from the Monster Island Block Party, the East Village Radio Festival, the semi-secret Tokyo Police Club show at the Mercury Lounge, and Lightning Bolt at Bushwick Backyard. I also uploaded basically the entire first Tokyo Police Club EP to my Youtube Channel , and also a Big A Little a vid from EVR.

I got into the VIP for the EVR fest, thanks to my new friend Melissa Mary, and I got there in time for Big A Little A at the Todd-P side stage, and Boris on the main stage. The TPC show was later that night, I had been wanting to see them for a couple of years now and I have a new appreciation for Elephant Shell after seeing them live. Monster Island was fun, even with Hurricane Hanna looming outside, coating Brooklyn with a warm tropical rain. The only annoying part was goddamn hipster Wavy Gravy fucking up the sound during the Ex Models' set. And Lightning Bolt wasn't as good as the 2 shows I went to the summer that I first got here, but it was still Lightning Bolt.

Tomorrow is The French Kicks & Passion Pit at Bowery Ballroom, Friday is the FOTP No Big Deal party at Alphabeta in Greenpoint, Saturday its These Are Powers & Marnie Stern at the Silent Barn, Sunday is Pinback at the Bowery once again, and then the Dodos on Monday at the new Spiegelworld venue at the Seaport, which looks amazing. That is all.

3-8. Monster Island / Oneida
9-11. Woods / Ex-Models
12, 13. EVR Fest
14. BCPD's Drum Kit
15-20. Aa / Boris
21-26. Tokyo Police Club
27-35. Lightning Bolt

Friday, September 5, 2008

Dong Bu

I went to Boston this weekend to help my sister get moved into her new dorm at BU. Her bday was on Friday so I took her and moms out to this French / Cambodian / Vegan restaurant downtown called The Elephant Walk. And I helped her get settled in and we got lunch at Noodle Skreet on the main drag of the university before I headed back to NYC.

I went to a Oxford Collapse record release party the Thursday before that, with streamers and piñatas and things. And I got back to the city around 8 on Saturday, just in time for the triple-billed noisepunk round robin at the Market Hotel. Big A Little A, Pterodactyl, and Parts & Labor were all playing, at the same time, playing one song each and going around the room. I ran into Morgan and Paige from Bham there, who were there to see Aa and were loyal to them. Most of the crowd was spinning in circles going around to see each of the bands. I went on a beach trip on Sunday, and then to a Labor Day BBQ Jam at Asterisk Art Space in Bushwick on Monday, by the McKibben Lofts. Will Scott was DJing, and my friend Joe lives there, apparently.

The weekend before that I went to go see Professor Murder, Free Blood, and Pink Skull at the Music Hall, and then to see Ponytail at the Knitting Factory before DJing to a packed bar at the Hanger (RIP) that night. Then on Sunday I went to go see Yo La Tengo at McCarren before going to Alphabeta that night to a party hosted by a bunch of Venezuelan skater kids selling Santa Salsa. They had a really good South American skate biddy playing in the courtyard, and Japanther & Ninjasonik playing inside. I think that's about it. I turned 25 on Wednesday, but this whole month is my birfday. Oneida & Ex Modelos on Monster Island on Saturday, secret Tokyo Police Club show at the Merc Lounge on Sunday. Cheers.

1-3. Professor Murder
4-6. Free Blood
7-9. Oxford Collapse Record Release Party
10-12. Ponytail
13-15. Yo La Tengo
16-21. Alphabeta
22-27. Japanther
27-29. Ninjasonik
30-33. The BK / Dong Bu / Santa Salsa
34-36. Parts & Labor
37-40. Ptex Modactyl
41-42. Big A Little a
43-45. Far Rockaway
46-54. Nyle's Labor Day BBQ Jam

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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