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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Pillow Fight For Tibet

I went to Union Square this afternoon after hearing about a giant pillow fight that was starting at 3 pm. I met up with Blini at Bite and we walked to 14th, and we could see the feathers flying from 11th street. I took most of the these in and around the square. And then all of a sudden a stream of people holding Tibetan flags showed up and started marching and chanting around the square. So theres a few pictures of that as well. Only in New York would these 2 two things happen simultaneously in the same 5 block radius. Market Hotel show tonight. Cheers.

1-11. Union Square Pillow Fight
12-15. Tibetan Protest March

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Espanda Bear

El Guincho was playing a free show for Other Music at the at Union Pool in Brooklyn yesterday. I went with Jenny and Trey and we got there a little late b/c we were drinking and watching a soccer game over here. And we went to meet B at her place and then went to Hanna Food to get some veggie deliciousness for Jenny. Union Pool was a nice venue with a outdoor patio/firepit between the bar and the main room. I'll probably going to more shows there soon. El Guincho started his Spanish Panda Bear danceparty soon after we got there and the place was packed from the very beginning, but we made our way into the crowd and i got a few decent shots.

1. PBR Holy Grail
2-9. El Guincho

Monday, March 17, 2008

St. Paddy's

I went to the St. Paddy's Day Parade on Fif Avenue this afternoon. Me and Belinda took the 6 up to 59th and found a good spot by the park around 62nd street. After that we went to FAO Schwarz and H&M before meeting Jenny & Trey for pints of Guinness and brownies in Union Square. And then we walked from there down through Gramercy Park to the West Village.

I got my ticket to Health / Crystal Castles at Studio B next Tuesday, which should be fun. And El Guincho is playing a free Other Music party at Union Pool in Brooklyn tomorrow. And the city is making up for lost time in general from this Saturday through April 2nd. Health, Crystal Castles, Caribou, Fuck Buttons, These Are Powers, Oneida, Japanther, Pterodactyl, Holy Fuck, and A Place To Bury Strangers all have shows coming up in the next 2 weeks.

1-14. St. Paddy's Day Parade
15, 16, 18. H&M/Fendi
17. Apple Store Fif Avenue

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Big O / Ponytail

Friday 29

I went to go see Oneida at the Knitting Factory last night. They were playing with Mike Bones, Company, and Oakley Hall. I got there a little late so I caught the last couple of songs from Oakley Hall's set. I figured they would play before the Big O, since those bands are connected, but it was Company's CD release show. Oakley Hall was a lot better (read: less country) live than they are on their albums. And one of the girls looks exactly like Sarah Heath from Bottletree. Company wasnt for me, so I had some drinks and talked to Hanoi Jane of Oneida. Him an Bobby Matador were hanging out in the main room selling merch and 80s beisball cards. They have a new EP coming out this fall and a triple-disc monster called Rated O next year. Here's a few pictures and a video for Up With People. It's luong so start it in the middle if youre impatient.

Saturday 1

I just got back from my first show at the new hipster commune/performance space in the mighty booshwick, aka The Market Hotel. Its an enormous loft space with a big triangular room, and 3 main areas for bands to setup and rotate gear so the turnaround time is minimal, and 3 other rooms for coat checks and things. Double Dagger played first in the smaller, square 'room'. They had a nice Fugazi vibe. A French noise band called Cheveu played next, with a singer that no one in the crowd could understand. Ponytail was next, which was the highlight of the night. The little pixie of a singer was amazing and the crowd was going nuts for them. Shooting Spires was next, who i missed b/c i was out acquiring food and 40s. Big A Little A was next, which was quality electro-tribalism as per usual. And Genghis Tron closed out the night, but i didn't stay for the whole thing. The next show I'm going to see there is probably Japanther and Pterodactyl at the end of March.

1. 74 Leonard St NYC
2. Axemans: Shahin Motia of Ex Models
3,4. The Big O: Baby Jane, Kid Millions, and Fat Bobby
5-10. Ponytail
11-13. Big A Little a

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.