My Morning Jacket
Posted on April 30, 2006 - Filed Under
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My Morning Jacket, uploaded by bigoteetoe.
My Morning Jacket brought the rock at Coachella. Just the antidote I needed after a lackluster Clap Your Hands Say Yeah set.
Ted Leo on the same stage today.
A few more [...]
Coachella Prequel
Posted on April 29, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGreetings from Rancho Mirage, CA — where I am setting up camp for this year’s Coachella. To get it the swing of things, I caught Quasi at Cafe Du Nord in SF — very good, especially the “guitar” songs.
Today looks to be more of a warm up for tomorrow’s lineup, but is still strong. Planning [...]
Getting Omaha’d
Posted on April 27, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTim McMahan explains some lingo from Pretty Girls Make Graves via their drummer Nick DeWitt:
“Oh yeah, we’ve been to Omaha,” he said. “It was at our first show that we played there that we coined a term called ‘getting Omaha’d.’ We played with The Blood Brothers, who insisted on playing before us. They have a [...]
Read More..>>Sign me up, Keith
Posted on April 27, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentNot all outlets deemed it fitting to include this quote; the Times on the other hand:
“I’m going out to learn to be a senior citizen and find a president I can vote for and believe in.”
Epistemology
Posted on April 26, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI didn’t always know that a casual swing of a baseball bat will not so much as crack an old-school television screen. I learned that one at the town dump one day when I was just about 12. It took quite the effort to reach the desired effect. Still I couldn’t guess [...]
Read More..>>It’s good for the En-vir-on-ment
Posted on April 26, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentDigging through my (postal) mail backog, I see that DEMOCRAT JANET REILLY has sent me a 16 page (plus glossy front/back) novella to explain her Environmental Plan for a Healthier California. Good on her. Oooh cool! It looks like it’s part of her “California 2.0″ platform. l33t
Read More..>>Quakes
Posted on April 26, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentRound these parts, there has been a lot of attention given to the 100 year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. As it should be. However, in not a single documentary, “Are we ready?” piece or event coverage did I hear any mention of the earthquake disaster last fall, though it seemed to [...]
Read More..>>Streaming Coachella
Posted on April 25, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIf you can’t (or don’t want to) go to the desert for Coachella this weekend, it looks like AT&T will be streaming the proceedings at blueroom.att.com where you can also stream featured content of the Goo Goo Dolls and Toby Keith.
In the meantime, check out the Rake breaking down the supposedly Top 5 musically inclined [...]
FS & G Up, Hos Down?
Posted on April 21, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSnoop is writing a series of ’street lit’ novels. Among other reason$, “Books speak more to a female audience than does his music”
Read More..>>Notice NOBODY said “the power exchange” …..HMMMM?
Posted on April 18, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Chronic gets all journalistic and asks: Where don’t you want to be when The Big One hits? Apparently more people are afraid of public nudity than death. Interesting. My favorite fear? Easy. Glendy Chan who doesn’t want to be in Costco when the “36-ounce cans of chicken broth or family-sized bottles of shampoo” come [...]
Read More..>>Mmmmm…. Ribs……
Posted on April 18, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentRichard Marx (possibly putting himself in the same category as Jerry Garcia): “I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn’t realize I was gone.”
Read More..>>Billboard Liberation Front
Posted on April 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI see the Billboard Liberation Front has a blog. Set your feedreaders now. Digging through their archives, they have the “Lord of War” improvement done near Zeitgeist last year. Turns out BLF didn’t do it … we can thank Citizens for the Betterment of Billboards* for that one, but they do point out the previously [...]
Read More..>>Frustrated Incorporated
Posted on April 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentRany (of Rob and Rany “fame”) not making it any easier to be a Royals fan in their latest dispatch:
Ken Ray may mean nothing to you. But to me, he is the most striking example yet of why the Braves are who they are. And why the Royals are who they are.
Don’t even bring up [...]
Lyrical Gangsters?
Posted on April 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentSticks and stones may break my bones, but VH1 polls will surely kill me. Accordingly, the top 5 lyrics OF ALL TIME:
U2 - One. “One life, with each other, sisters, brothers.”
The Smiths - How Soon is Now? “So you go, and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go [...]
One-Third of Americans do not eat “Supper”!
Posted on April 14, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAnd what do you call a drive-thru liquor store? … Council Bluffs? {via Ed}
Read More..>>What do you think about your team’s execution?
Posted on April 14, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSure, the openening paragraph is mildly amusing:
A DEA agent [Lee Paige] who accidentally shot himself in the foot while demonstrating gun safety to school children is suing the agency, saying video of the incident has made him the joke of the Internet.
But the kicker is the closing in which we read that, “Paige, a former [...]
Music Wants To Be Free, Man
Posted on April 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBright Eyes will be doing a free concert in the Big O on June 17th, which will NOT replace the regular bank-sponsored “fireworks” concert (usually headlined by Righteous Brothers types).
Pretty Girls Make Graves are having a “secret” show in SF tomorrow… what’s the deal with secret shows anyway?
Winds of Change
Posted on April 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentNearly fell out of my chair hearing “What an alert play by Berroa!!!” as the Royals SS doubled up Bernie Williams to get out of a bases loaded jam against the Yankees.
Read More..>>The Fake Headlines
Posted on April 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentPoker & Pam Anderson displace death, joining taxes. Is such the future of journalism in the post-google world?
Journalists, they say, would be wise to do a little keyword research to determine the two or three most-searched words that relate to their subject — and then include them in the first few sentences. “That’s not something [...]
Omaha’s Rock/Paper/Scissors Scene
Posted on April 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThis year’s Rock, Paper, Scissors champion Dave McGill triumphantly returns home to Omaha from the title match in Las Vegas: “I’m an expert at sizing up my opponent. . . . It’s a battle of will.’
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