ACROBATICS EVERYDAY

mount eerie yester-day with julie doiron and fred squire (nom de plume ‘calm down it’s monday’). great great performances, great sound + venue, great turnout! thanks for coming and sharing the afternoon!

some great fotos over at vivian lee’s flickr.

[mount eerie with julie doiron and fred squire - who?]

the show was recorded by myself and paul mceldowney - my recording is exceedingly quiet though, and i have seen or heard paul’s isight recording. we’ll try to get some up! the sound was truly impeccable.

next tuesday’s election day, and at night we’re gonna watch the electoral college while parts & labor, white fang, and adrian orange (aka thanksgiving) play songs. i’m not sure if gowns is playing. this show’ll be at the PHOENIX FOOD COURT, recently renamed from the PHOENIX GRILLE for reasons beyond me. this show will take place in the SMALL ROOM. we’ve always utilized the main phoenix space, but that has proved unworthwhile for a number of reasons, perhaps greatest of all the sometimes poor sound quality that results from the totally high ceilings. so yeah! we’re gonna do it in the small room it’ll be a blast.

i might redo the site soon. probably not though!

i should have written last week, after ponytail played. because. i’ve talked about ponytail so much in the past few months that i just feel like i am endlessly repeating myself about how goddamn amazing they are, how they are the most exciting, energetic, original band currently touring the world, and how much their music makes me smile.

[ponytail - …,,,, , , ___!]
last night ian mackaye came to uci and talked to a room so packed beyond capacity that he hardly had room to stand. he took questions from the audience, which in turn led to stories of the punk past that could come from no other source. totally inspirational, totally legit. i hope everyone thought it was as straight up cool as i did, like sincerely cool in the way that not many things are.

[minor threat - good guys (don’t wear white)]
we have a few shows coming up. usaisamonster with some local acts on sunday at 2pm in crescent bay, mount eerie for free! at engineering lecture hall 100 on wednesday the 29th at 3pm SHARP, and parts & labor with thanksgiving and white fang and probably gowns on november 4 at phoenix grile. the last one will be a doozy, so try not to miss it…

parts & labor - the gold we’re digging (mapmaker, jagjaguwar 2007)
[white fang - invisible handz]

coooooool 

yesterday’s show was super fantastic. ponytail really knows how to put on a show.

the crowd was just a mass of tangled limbs, dancing, and smiles.

here are some pix. an entry should be up shortly on the l.a. times music blog (exciting!).

60-Watt Kid

P-P-P-PONYTAIL.

more here.

i went to the eagle rock music festival yesterday, it was great. free, fun, pizza (not free), rain (very free). saw some great bands (this one, and this one, and this one, and more).

this saturday night PONYTAIL is going to play at uc irvine, at the phoenix grille. please come to this. this will be the best concert of the year. if you come, you will not regret it. you won’t. seriously. please come, please bring your friends, PLEASE!

a fantastic video for my favorite song on the field record.

here’s a track i have listened to a million times today. it is so good.

[new order - blue monday]

new show by STARFUCKER (no NIN relation) added to the schedule. look at it.

hey folks,

school and shows are proving to be a tough combo to handle when you have 0 time mgmt skills like myself. that said, last week was beautiful. across 3 grossly under-attended events, we hosted problems? (portland), voice on tape, john thill, pillars & tongues (chicago), chirgilchin (tuva), tara tuvi, 60-watt kidd (SF), and gowns (sf). all of these acts played brilliantly, and it’s a shame more people didn’t come to see them play. there are pictures on the main AE site.

here’s a song by problems? off of their demo.

[problems?-introduction]

and lastly:

more consistent posting to continue.