ACROBATICS EVERYDAY

I hope everyone had fun at the past few shows. How hot has it been in that room? serious sweatin’.
here are some pics I took from the past couple of shows:

little chris from tan dollar; the hat can’t be beat

Jeff’s new band The Light Rays played their first show. so good!

Tan dollar was great too. They are coming back from a short tour now, sorry bout the car guys.

Indian Jewelry and Psychic Ills fogged up the room and got it groovin.

fire alarm break

I met Nikolay who is from Russia, and he is currently in the USA looking for a Job so he can stay in the country.

a week later…

Boyz IV Men were so so good. It was cool to see that everyone was so into it, as they should have.

All Leather tearing it up

Made in Mexico so wacky so fun so great

Religious Girls, love these dudes

One of the guys went crowdsurfin; everyone was stoked

hi sasha

quesadilla machine was underused, go bug emily and sam about this!

I am going to D.C. during the next two shows, but I know they will be rad. Recommendations on what to D.C. are greatly appreciated. I am very stoked for the silk flowers show at the end of August. If you haven’t listened to their new cd, you should make the effort; it’s one of my favorites from this year.

palin out

it feels like forever since the last show; hope everyone had a great time at captain ahab, sure looks like noah did

Next week’s show will be amazing; those who saw indian jewelry last year will know. I am also very stoked for tan dollar as well as psychic ills and the light rays.

anyone remember last summer’s shows?

strobe out

see you there!

so after failing bbq i’ve thrown that mystery disc from last post into itunes. turns out it’s a band called You Fantastic! which is an enviably great band name. the album is “riddler ep” and all the tracks are untitled. it’s on skingraft.

here’s a taste:

you fantastic! - untitled 9 - riddler ep

what else, what else; stoked to see the dirty projectors this wednesday. i look forward to the tall npr-ites! or, maybe i need not be so negative and instead expect a thorough dance party, capitalizing on every beat heavy second  of their set. this video’s been blogged to death but it is quite charming:

ok, work 9-5 is killer, hello fake adult world!

anyone been to the ST VINCENT DE PAUL thrift store in laguna / el toro? they had this insane sale last few days in honor of the USA. i picked up a way too much stuff for way too little coin, so great! it’s cheaper and better organized than the neighboring goodwill and sal-army, so i plan on frequenting it anyway. found a neato stash of CDs today — picked up 3 discs — a wire album, a his name is alive promo CD, and an album that has ridiculous art without any artist / album title / label info. i put it on in the car: it was ambient noise with no regard for utilizing a cd’s fundamental “track” property. that is to say that “songs” would start and stop within tracks on the cd, and i’m pretty sure track 6 was ~10 seconds of silence into some more silence on track 7 with noise starting up again some time deep in. all in all a rousing success. i’ll find some info on theat mystery disc and post it up here. i also picked up a grandma-exercise VHS.

his name is alive’s always been way interesting to me (and by always i mean the relatively short time between my virginal encounter w/ and now); their fondue approach, wait that metaphor doesn’t really work, let’s just go with the cliché, melting pot sound is somehow really organic yet mildly “2001.” their records end up sounding sort of like genre compilations that transcend era, people, and fads. to produce such an output, a certain degree of proficiency with writing and recording is totally needed, resulting in a shifting sound that never sounds…wrong? but never sounds forced, or worse, gimmicky.

his name is alive - bad luck girl - stars on esp

i also ate at hollingshead’s delicatessen. now that is something any resident of orange county needs to do: choice as fuck sandwiches in a cozy market atmosphere. if you like beer, the deli/market doubles (triples?) as a pub: you can get all manner of small-time slash imported beer on tap not to mention that the majority of the ‘market’ component of the store is essentially a pantheon of beers, like a mini-bev mo with a family-owned element that cinches the deal.

tight shows in a few weeks. electro-dance jammer mid-june was sweaty and so fun. thanks to the wizards who fueled the evening’s audio.