ACROBATICS EVERYDAY

god-damn, 3 nights of live music, in so many settings! thursday saw the happy hollows and big whup shred all over the weird arts complex amphitheatre. friday, i went to club avalon and felt out of place, but the field was incredible, SO MUCH BASS. 4 song set, which is totally lame, and yeah, F that weird and obnoxious MC/hype dude up in the DJ booth. the juan maclean started slow; 4-on-the-floor, check, handclaps, check, woah, THEREMIN SOLO, okay neat but the fourth time, getting kind of ooooold. but they had an epic epic epic closer (”7 gates of hell” ?) that blew me away (though it could have just been the fucking bass, holy shit, it was like el niño). dudes in 59fiftys trying to grind up on under-21 honies with no shame, sashaying around and casually, no, accidentally! getting a little touch as their hands danced stiffly up and down the sides of totally (?) disinterested ladies. smoothly spinning around the cap, NOW ur kool dude!

yesterday INK-N-IRON at the queen mary in long beach to see THE SONICS play their only southern california show ever. 3 wall-to-wall floors of tattoo artists from around the world on the boat, some two hundred classic cars all over the place in their chopshop low-riding sparkledust glory, a lot of babies! and live music no one watched. until the woggles, who are like garage rock superheroes who have all the right moves. see them should you ever get a chance; the fuzztones schlocked their way through an hour of garage-honk that was not unlovable but was unmemorable. cut out some of the cheese, dude, rudi! maybe in berlin waxing on and on, wearing a joey ramone haircut, about lovin sex and drugs is not so dated…

and yes, the goddamn SONICS, nearly 50 years later, playing their first ever southern california show. in their 60s right? old. jerry roslie looked really old. but SHIT the guy can still deliver that shrill and destructive howl. STRYCHNINE, ya, YA! they’re going to be back in august, 2 dates in la at the echoplex and sunset junction + somewhere in san diego. be there! all the hits, every last one. if you are curious as to the setlist just grab your sonics record and check off every goddamn track! lo-fi, no-fi, garage rock, whatever-the-hell–it exists because this band wanted to destroy everything before everyone else. unfamiliar–myspace picks up the ball. check out the gnarly graffiti font! summer jams. life-affirming, amazing. shredding amps.
sidenote: graduation is 6 days away. what’s it anyway, just a new hat!

here’s a disc i found laying around the station a while ago. “explosion” by some berkeley no-fi freak-punks called coomers. can’t find antyhing on the internet about these dudes. on the super 8 label, i think, if i remember correctly.

coomers - zombies - explosion

tight stuff that would never exist were it not for the sonics. okay, long post over and out!

if you need more impetus to download the record:

coomers - crowd pleaser - explosion

download coomers - explosion

REMINDER: BRIGHT TOMORROW FEST IS HAPPENING TODAY.

bring a loved one, your enemy, your neighbor, your roommate, someone you secretly love(d), your sibling, your mom or pop, your bfffffff, or someone who likes music.

you bet yo’ ass it’ll be rad.

also, here’s the link to the l.a. times article: whoooooop.

and here’s a cute video from port o’brien. this song is called “I Woke Up Today.”
summer anthem 2k8?

so last year sometime, i came across this billboard after a show in la and snapped a pic:

naturally i was confused but i forget everything so i forgot about it

recently though, i have been hearing these ridiculous radio spots about it. the ads feature a girl talking to her friend about how she has met a stud through ashley madison and they are boning a lot (implied), and it is enjoyable. she proceeds to tell her friend that she should spice up her life via ashley madison’s services. both girls have boyfriends: they are simply “in need of something more,” a subtle mantra repeated at least 3 times through the thirty-second ad.
(potentially NSFW?)

ashley madison dot com is basically a myspace with the facade of friendship removed, basically a prettier version of craigslists’ ‘casual encounters’ board. you go on and register anonymously and then you can ostensibly hook up with other people who want to stealthily bone out of their monogamy. ashley madison: homewrecker?

ashley madison doesn’t even have a wiki page (minus 100 internets), but apparently something like 300,000 members. it is based in toronto (canada).

any ashley madison success stories among acrobatics everyday readers?
should america declare a jihad against canada?

MOUNT RIGHTEOUS is playing on the terrace stage in 48 minutes. look forward to video of it later.

The Internet is a treasure chest of wonderful things.

I would like to direct your attention to that lil gem above. It is food that has taken the shape of its container. There are, like, TONS MORE (i.e. 8 more).

Amusing? Yes. Frivolous? Absolutely! Amazing? Totes amazing.

On an unrelated note, I was walking around UCI today trying to capture stylish people for a different blog, and someone finally said “no.” That is not the interesting part. The interesting part was that his excuse was “No, because I’m walking.”

Hey Professor, sorry I didn’t do the 20-page paper. I’m walking! Hey honey, I can’t marry you. I’m walking!