Disco Baby...

Simian Mobile Disco @Mezzanine... with Erin and our new friend Trentnot much to say, they were awesome.. two guys doing a lot of things with cords and switchboards and lights...



i love this place.

I've got to finish it...

I'm not a completist, and i'm certainly not a perfectionist, and i don't have time at work today to find out exactly the name of my habit, so i'll just roll with Completionist (i know it's not the right word, humor me) since i'd love to get back on track with this stinkin blog. You see, i can't just forget the concerts i went to...i'd love to write about some cool remix i heard or an annoying voice-enhancing gadget but since i haven't posted my pictures of Simian Mobile Disco and Brian Jonestown Massacre, it's easier for me just to, you know, go on a hiatus...

However, I found an article that further complements my tendency to finish things in sequence... i'm one of those people who prides herself on buying the whole album. Even if it's not all good, I am satisfied when I scroll through ITunes and see blocks of albums.. when someone asks if i have heard the new song, I talk about the whole album. It's so easy to click 'buy' on a 99cent song, but then that's all you have, that one song...

this article focuses on albums that are better when listened to from start to finish... i'd like to add a few to the list that come to mind, including Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights" (especially driving down Jalama Beach Road), Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes" (even though i once started with Track 2 and got called out on it), Mobius Band's "The Lovely Sounds of Static" and Radiohead's "Kid A"... it's hard for me to narrow them down because i really do think any album should be listened to in its entirety... the Beatles once said that every album they put out was a gift-- why would we ever want just half of a gift?

Let the Music Play...

I'm addicted to live music. In the past few weeks I have been tattooed with stamps and can't get the ringing out of my ears from shows such as Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Room For a Ghost, and a band I can't remember the name of... I can't wait for April, and am constantly reminded of the upcoming glory by the tickets i keep receiving in the mail... For your viewing pleasure, the next few posts will be phlog-tastic..

A spinning disco skull at Boys Noize at Vessel, SF .. March 11th

Alexander Ridha, aka Boys Noize, at Vessel on March 11th..

Yay for Streaming Music

I've been so out of commission lately, I apologize.. but until i can bring back my creative juices to talk about Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco, and Brian Jonestown Massacre (among other fun things i've been doing), take a minute to check out The Decemberists' new album, Hazards of Love, introduced at SXSW a few days ago..

Colin Meloy makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

"I feel like i'm stuck in 'stand by me'"

Sometimes i wish i was still 14, when i fearlessly stood by the monitors at concerts, my boyfriend had to pick me up in his cool tacoma to take me to taco bell, and nights were spent scotch-taping all my recent pictures and magazine cutouts to my walls and friend notebooks... and i didn't have facebook...

No Use For a Name's singer is playing at Hotel Utah tonight, so Erin and i were having a bout of nostalgia about the good old days of high school "pop punk" love songs... of course, many punk fans would strangle me if i said this was punk, but heey, i'm not classifying them in the same genre... i just mean cheesy, make the girls melt love songs that a 14 year old girl would have thought of as punk... i remember playing "Looking Back on Today" by the Ataris on repeat on my boombox (yes, boombox) while burning incense and talking on AIM to 9 people at once...

check out some of my favorites, and add to the list!

1. Looking Back on Today ~ The Ataris

"Remember our first apartment? Our couch was never big enough for two. Still, we'd fall asleep in each other's arms and wake up on the floor. Now looking back it was made for me and you."

2. M&M's ~ Blink 182

"You and I should get away for awhile I just want to be alone with your smile Buy some candy and cigarettes and we'll get in my car We'll blast the stereo and we'll drive to Madagascar "

3. Cigarette ~ Yellowcard

"I blushed the first time, but you blushed the last time my eyes in your mind"

4. Letters to You ~ Finch

"These letters to you, aren't much I know But I'm not sleeping, you're not here"

5. San Dimas High School Football Rules ~ The Ataris

"Last night i had a dream that we went to disneyland, Went on all the rides, didn't have to wait in line. I drove you to your house where we stared up at the stars I listened to your heartbeat as i held you in my arms."

And thanks Megan, for reminding me of lyrics that sum up quite the opposite, but just as touching:

Clean sheets mean a lot,

To a guy who sleeps on the floor.

well I wanted your love,

and a shelf by your dresser drawer.

You tucked me in,

Stopped my tossing and turning.

But I turned back the covers,

And saw those sheets are dirty.

Even though you'll never come clean,

You know it's true.

Those sheets are dirty,

And so are you.

Ages 6 and Up.

RIP Beard.

I'm a bit late in the game on this one, but a little bird prompted me to discover Devendra Banhart sans-beard. He's beautiful anyway. And he's coming to The Independent on April 14th, so if you're not going to this show, check him out. Tickets went on sale yesterday.

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No really, he is that beautiful.

David vs. Goliath

Miley Cyrus is (fill in the blank here).

Who, after proclaiming her unfathomable love for Thom Yorke, disses him and his band on radio? She will ruin him? In case you didn't know, Miley Cyrus is a little girl with too much power who says the word LIKE too much. According to her, she tried to meet Radiohead while backstage at the Grammys and they said, "they don't do that kind of thing." Okay, so Thom could have stepped it up and maybe even stuck his head out of his room four doors down for a quick wave. But Sorry, Miley, he has the power. You don't. i'm on Goliath's side here.

Here's a clip of the interview. Also note that BoyzIIMen are now a rap group, and Kings of Leon secretly have a preacher for a dad (old news, MC)