Pretty Girls Make Graves

Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under

Pretty Girls Make Graves
Eleventeen
Razrez
@Bottom Of The Hill
Monday, October 31st
9 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30)
$12
(all ages)
NOTE: Rescheduled to Monday, October 31st (from Tuesday, Oct. 25th)

Sony’s Compact Discs & Their Secret Software

Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under

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For years, I’ve used the PC utilities at SysInternals.com. I’ve found them to be useful, dependable, lightweight and all the other things that make well-written software great. In a recent blog entry, Mark Russinovich chronicles his the anger & frustration that accomponied the discovery of poorly written, digingenuous & undocumented malware installed on his PC [...]

Follicle Follies

Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under

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Previously, I’d noted the odd pattern of article writers making a point to describe female writers’ hair. The latest contributor to this fine tradition is Claire Dederer at Newsday.com, describing Laila Lalami “with a friendly smile, her long hair hanging in a curly curtain. ” Well done!

Dave Dondero Monday

Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under

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Dave Dondero’s new album South of the South came out last Tuesday on Team Love records. As all of the label’s albums, you can download the whole shebang in MP3s. {via SoT}
Hear a fifteen minute interview with Dondero at indieinterviews.com. Discussed: moving from Future Farmer to Team Love, how he hooked up with the Omaha-ites [...]

American Analog Set [2 Nights]

Posted on October 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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The American Analog Set
Vervein
The Lonelyhearts
@Bottom Of The Hill
Sat, October 29 +
Sun, October 30
10 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30)
$12
Check out some unreleased MP3s from their web site.

Aquarius Records New Arrivals #225

Posted on October 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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One of my favorite music stores, Aquarius Records has dispatched their New Arrivals list (#225). Along with their typical, exhaustive list they highlight two records of the week:
One, an old fave reissued and remastered: the Dreamies album, an obscure Beatleseque pop-psych sound collage from 1973 that we love love love. The other Record Of The [...]

Halloween / Goth Audio Stream

Posted on October 28, 2005 - Filed Under

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This word just in from top-notch internet radio channel SomaFM:
We’ve got a special treat this Halloween: a scary, dark Goth/Industrial
channel called the “Soma Haunt”. Play it at your Halloween party this
weekend, fire up the fog machine and really set the mood! The music was
compiled by longtime SomaFM friend and San Francisco Goth scene
institution [...]

It’s all relative…

Posted on October 28, 2005 - Filed Under

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You may have wondered: how bad can teaching science in Kansas* be? According to Popular Science, it’s better than Manure Inspector, but worse than Semen Washer.
Full disclosure: I have at one point lived in Kansas and have shopped at the outlet mall in Olathe. Purchases included: Corning-ware items, shorts & a Frulatti.

Time to learn Portuguese?

Posted on October 28, 2005 - Filed Under

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This Reuters blurb* has me waiting for the English release of BMK favorite Jose Saramago’s latest “As Intermitencias da Morte” (The Intermittencies of Death).
The story depicts Death as a woman who goes on strike because she is fed up with being hated by people.
Chaos follows. Hospitals fill up, people keep growing old without dying, and [...]

Bo Jackson, ND Alumnus

Posted on October 27, 2005 - Filed Under

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So says the Onion.

History Hardly Stops

Posted on October 27, 2005 - Filed Under

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Just as the Voice is being purchased by Big Media, it celebrates its fiftieth year. Lots of nice covers, but moreso the select articles throughout the fifty years of cool, from the beats to the hippies to the new generation:
History hardly stops. Disco in the ’70s is in revolt against rock in the ’60s. [...]

Laughing to keep from crying

Posted on October 27, 2005 - Filed Under

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The New Yorker marked first several 100 day stanzas of the Bush administration with multiple-choice quizzes covering the freshly passed fiascos we may have missed had we blinked. Despite their tendency to focus on the more absurd moments of the previous hundred days, they painfully revealed the tragicomedy we’ve undergone thus far this millenium. [...]

Against Me! [2 Nights]

Posted on October 26, 2005 - Filed Under

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Against Me!
@Slim’s
October 26th & 27th

Are they real, or are they memory?

Posted on October 26, 2005 - Filed Under

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Checking out the Cassette Jam made me wonder if it is now safe to discard the Maxell points I’ve been hoarding for the Second Coming?
Bonus BMK Inside Info: The first CD I “bought” with Max-Points was People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, complete with plastic frame & cardboard box.
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Okkervil River Lost, Regained

Posted on October 26, 2005 - Filed Under

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Sunday night I caught Okkervil River at Cafe du Nord. As I’d risen at 4:30 that morning to drive & cheer on my sister and other runners, I was unable to stay for the entire show - losing my steam just after an energetic Black[1]. To that point, O.R. was putting on a great show, [...]

Pretty Girls Make Graves Concert Rescheduled

Posted on October 25, 2005 - Filed Under

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The Pretty Girls Make Graves concert set for tonight has been delayed until next Monday (Halloween) due to “food poisoning”. Info can be found at the Bottom of the Hill.
Might I direct you to Lucero, in its stead?

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy

Posted on October 25, 2005 - Filed Under

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Cognitive Daily highlights a study of the effects of tempo & mode on whether music is perceived as “happy”
Even though participants had rated tempo-only and mode-only changes as the same, in the Divergent condition, tempo once again took precedence. So it appears that tempo is more important than mode in determining whether a musical selection [...]

Lucero

Posted on October 25, 2005 - Filed Under

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Lucero
Blackpool Lights
Decibully
@Slims
Showtime: 8:00 PM (Doors: 7:30 PM)
Ticket price: $13
Tickets available on-line at: Virtuous.com, Tickets.com
All Ages

So long as we get a ten percent finders fee…

Posted on October 25, 2005 - Filed Under

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No doubt the blog’s name is intended for the errant google search. Absent evidence to the contrary, one would suppose that it works (does this perhaps explain our popularity in Romania?):
I sell a kidney, my name is Eliaquim. I am man. I have 21 years old. I donâ€™t drink alcohol. I donâ€™t smoke. I [...]