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Monday, July 14, 2008

Kid City

It's been a busy weekend. Free show at the Seaport on Friday, which was the tip of the iceberg. 15+ bands at the midsummer outdoor party at the Yard on Saturday, and the final night of the Fuck Yeah Fest on Sunday. Abe Vigoda, No Age, and Telepathe played on Friday, and 2/3rds of those bands plus Knyfe Hyts, Crystal Antlers, Ninjasonik, Ponytail, Shy Child, High Places, Titus Andronicus, and Oneida played at the Yard. FOTP, The Brothers Frentz, William Donovan, and a handful of bham southside kids were all there. After the show me and Natalia went to dinner at Black Betty before going to to Zebulon to see Ann Arbor, Michigan's finest afrobeat band, Nomo. And then, much later, me and Barret went to a giant warehouse costumedanceparty in bushwick on Bogart & Scholes. I think it was a gods & goddessess party or something because everyone was dressed up as angels & devils and what have you. It was pretty fucking surreal. I felt like I was in one of those movies about ecstasy.

Sunday was Team Robes and Monotonix at Club Exit. I missed Japanther (they played at like 745 for some reason) and left before Matt & Kim because I was exhausted. but the Panther and the Deathset are playing the Market Hotel next Monday, with Mae Shi and Ponytail. And I met one of the residents of the Market Hotel at the show on Saturday. Monotonix were one of the most ridiculous live bands I've seen, I don't think they were actually on stage or stationary in one place in the crowd any any point during their set. And the drummer was crowd surfing w/ his drums. I have a feeling that next weekend will be even more epic somehow. Lorena gets in Wednesday, Ted Leo & The Fiery Furnaces play free shows at Castle Clinton on Thursday, Deerhoof & the Metropolis Ensemble remix the Rite of Spring on Friday before the Knyfe Hyts/Red Dawn II Champagne Party at Death By Audio. Siren Fest Saturday afternoon followed by me and Belinda DJing one of Casey's shindigs that night. And then the motherfucking Liars on Sunday at McCarren Pool. Good time.

1. Kid City
2. B and Virg at the Hanger
3,8. Abe Vigoda
4,7. No Age
5,6. South Skreet Seaport
9. Guy from Fiasco
10. Telepathe
11. Chupacabra
12. High Places
13. Ponytail Judo Kick
14,15. Shy Child
16,17,18. Oneida
19. Zebulon
20,22. Team Robespierre
21, 23-30. Monotonix

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Fresh and Delicious Ices

I went to go see The Wackness yesterday. It was really good. The main guy looked like Peter Petrelli from Heroes. Best friend girl from Juno was in it as a hot brunette stepdaughter. Famke Janssen as the mom. Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist pothead Dr. Jeffrey Squires, MD. Method Man as a haitian drug dealer named Perse. Mary Kate Olsen as a hippie. NYC in 1994. 40s and Zs. Guilianni. I saw it on a little bit of mushroom tea w/ Killa B and Sexie Lexie, and then went to Dos Caminos for Parton margs w/ blood orange and Cointreaux. And then to Booshwick to hang out on McKibben Skreet, and later Ft. Greene for cuban sammiches and corn at the Habana Outpost. Thursday was a get-drunk night at Legion.

Friday was the mid-afternoon show at The Yard in the BK. Power Douglas, Double Dagger, The Apes, Ponytail, Marnie Stern, and Indian Jewelry. Free Soco and PBR and ice tweem. Pfork TV was there filming so I may be on the interwebs. Which is good b/c I didn't have my camera for the show. After that it was cataract fireworks from a 12th floor rooftop just below Union Square, followed by hanging out in the East Village and going to Santo's Party House for nnsting. Wimbledon Final now. Cheers.

1. No Pigs Allowed.
3. Washington Square Hotel
4. 111 4th Ave
2, 5, 7. McKibben St.
6. Hatchet
8-10. Bushwick
11. The Wackness

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Stuyvesant Cove

This weekend has sort of been a bust. I missed A Place To Bury Strangers at the Seaport on Friday, and King Khan & The Shrines were sort of dissapointing. But fried tiny buns, margaritas and Max Fish made up for that later in the evening. And then on Saturday Citysol was running late because of the rain delay, so Dan Deacon had to cancel and Ecstatic Sunshine played a short set sans Dustin Wong. And then the massive Todd P Roosevelt Island BBQ also got postponed today thanks to the inclement weather. But it wasn't a total loss. And the Studio BBQ on Thursday was fun. Watching the Euro Cup Final now. Cheers.

1. 14th St. L Train Percussion
2,3. Studio BBQ
4-6. City Hall Park/Murray Street
7,8. Ecstatic Sunshine
9. The Acorn
10-15. Stuyvesant Cove Park

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.