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All of you must see two music videos
Signing Emo by MC Lars
Mad World by Gary Jules (Same song used in Donnie Darko, but a different music video)
Go to Launch.com and view them... now.
Do you know what fucking pisses me off? The fucking month thing. February is BHM... y'know Black History Month... and I think May or June is Breast Cancer awareness month. I just found out October is apparently Jewish History month. What the fuck? It's like these fucking calender people just want to slap a fucking label on a month.
But the biggest drop off in months is February to March.
March is... and I swear to God I saw this on a bus...
National Discount Spay and Neuter Month.
...I saw it... and I immediately had a stroke.
Hollywood: Part 1.
So, I'm walking down Vine about a week ago, and it starts pouring rain. I mean, it's fucking monsoon season. Completely fucking randomly. So, I take shelter under the nearest awning. Vine floods and I'm stuck outside with an unusually large group of people huddling for warmth. So I take a second to look around me, clean off my glasses, and see that I am currently waiting in line for a concert at Club Avalon. I search for a sign of the concert I'm about to enter... and I see Indie 103.1 FM banners hanging around.
I hear people bitching about how the show is sold out... and how they drove all the way from Laguna Beach, Seal Beach, Oceanside, San Clemente, etc. just to come here and see The Secret Machines. Well, I had never heard of the Secret Machines, so I shrug it off... thinking it's some Indie band I've never heard of. Then I hear murmurs about a band called Autolux. Another band I'd never heard of...
So, I just continued to ride out the storm, not expecting to go into the concert... rather to wait outside of it, with the stragglers until the rain let up. That is until I heard the third band that was playing. The fucking Moving Units. I love the Moving Units, and hadn't thought about them in a very long time... This was amazing! So, I call a bouncer over, and ask if the show really is sold out. Unfortunately for me, the fucking wookie of a man re-affirms the fact that indeed it is sold out.
Not ten minutes later, a woman comes out of the Avalon and says, "Who wants tickets?" I said, "Me, please!" and she says "...ok." and gives me a free ticket.
Much to the dismay of the 40 or so O.C.ites who had driven hours in the pouring rain to get there.
Fuck you Orange County, I live up the street.
I get into the Avalon, and meet a girl named Leilene... or Lilian... or... Brenda... or something... and we start talking. She tells me she goes to Cal State Northridge.
Josh: What's your major?
Brenda (possibly): Oh, deaf studies.
Josh: Cool.
Brenda (possibly): Well, actually I changed it.
Josh: Oh, what to?
Brenda (possibly): Music.
Josh: (blinks) Um.. you went from deaf studies to music?
Brenda (possibly): Wow... nice to meet you Josh... my name is irony.
The show starts and Autolux comes out. A hot looking girl comes onstage and sits at the drum set. She sings and drums, and is hot. Sweet-ass-sweet. The band kicked ass. Then, Moving Units comes on, and rocks the fucking hizzouse.
In the middle of a song, a very noticeably coked up/fucked up on acid/high/drunk/sleepy drummer stands up and starts doing the Gob chicken dance. It was fucking amazing. The Moving Units blew my mind dude. The Moving Units ended their set when all three drug-laden members crawled on the floor and ripped the strings out of their instruments... while the drummer did the coka coka caw dance again.
Then this crazy ass light kit comes down onstage. And the Secret Machines come onstage. They have the coolest lighting I've ever seen. They rocked the fucking house... and kicked some ass.
All in all, it 'twas the coolest concert I've ever been to.
The Avalon = better than the Wiltern
The Scissor Sisters were better live, and had a better show... but fucking Will Power blew ass compared to Autolux.
P.S. Life is fucking great these days. I just bought a new cowboy shirt from Iguana that looks almost exactly like Buck's from Boogie Nights, which just came in the mail... I'm wearing it right now.
Signing Emo by MC Lars
Mad World by Gary Jules (Same song used in Donnie Darko, but a different music video)
Go to Launch.com and view them... now.
Do you know what fucking pisses me off? The fucking month thing. February is BHM... y'know Black History Month... and I think May or June is Breast Cancer awareness month. I just found out October is apparently Jewish History month. What the fuck? It's like these fucking calender people just want to slap a fucking label on a month.
But the biggest drop off in months is February to March.
March is... and I swear to God I saw this on a bus...
National Discount Spay and Neuter Month.
...I saw it... and I immediately had a stroke.
Hollywood: Part 1.
So, I'm walking down Vine about a week ago, and it starts pouring rain. I mean, it's fucking monsoon season. Completely fucking randomly. So, I take shelter under the nearest awning. Vine floods and I'm stuck outside with an unusually large group of people huddling for warmth. So I take a second to look around me, clean off my glasses, and see that I am currently waiting in line for a concert at Club Avalon. I search for a sign of the concert I'm about to enter... and I see Indie 103.1 FM banners hanging around.
I hear people bitching about how the show is sold out... and how they drove all the way from Laguna Beach, Seal Beach, Oceanside, San Clemente, etc. just to come here and see The Secret Machines. Well, I had never heard of the Secret Machines, so I shrug it off... thinking it's some Indie band I've never heard of. Then I hear murmurs about a band called Autolux. Another band I'd never heard of...
So, I just continued to ride out the storm, not expecting to go into the concert... rather to wait outside of it, with the stragglers until the rain let up. That is until I heard the third band that was playing. The fucking Moving Units. I love the Moving Units, and hadn't thought about them in a very long time... This was amazing! So, I call a bouncer over, and ask if the show really is sold out. Unfortunately for me, the fucking wookie of a man re-affirms the fact that indeed it is sold out.
Not ten minutes later, a woman comes out of the Avalon and says, "Who wants tickets?" I said, "Me, please!" and she says "...ok." and gives me a free ticket.
Much to the dismay of the 40 or so O.C.ites who had driven hours in the pouring rain to get there.
Fuck you Orange County, I live up the street.
I get into the Avalon, and meet a girl named Leilene... or Lilian... or... Brenda... or something... and we start talking. She tells me she goes to Cal State Northridge.
Josh: What's your major?
Brenda (possibly): Oh, deaf studies.
Josh: Cool.
Brenda (possibly): Well, actually I changed it.
Josh: Oh, what to?
Brenda (possibly): Music.
Josh: (blinks) Um.. you went from deaf studies to music?
Brenda (possibly): Wow... nice to meet you Josh... my name is irony.
The show starts and Autolux comes out. A hot looking girl comes onstage and sits at the drum set. She sings and drums, and is hot. Sweet-ass-sweet. The band kicked ass. Then, Moving Units comes on, and rocks the fucking hizzouse.
In the middle of a song, a very noticeably coked up/fucked up on acid/high/drunk/sleepy drummer stands up and starts doing the Gob chicken dance. It was fucking amazing. The Moving Units blew my mind dude. The Moving Units ended their set when all three drug-laden members crawled on the floor and ripped the strings out of their instruments... while the drummer did the coka coka caw dance again.
Then this crazy ass light kit comes down onstage. And the Secret Machines come onstage. They have the coolest lighting I've ever seen. They rocked the fucking house... and kicked some ass.
All in all, it 'twas the coolest concert I've ever been to.
The Avalon = better than the Wiltern
The Scissor Sisters were better live, and had a better show... but fucking Will Power blew ass compared to Autolux.
P.S. Life is fucking great these days. I just bought a new cowboy shirt from Iguana that looks almost exactly like Buck's from Boogie Nights, which just came in the mail... I'm wearing it right now.