So on the recommendation of a good friend (sweeney_o, who, by the way, is hopefully not yet being swept away in the Russian River for a second month this year) as well as healthy buzz, I'm listening to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and I'm intrigued. For me, they sound like a cross between The Arcade Fire and the Violent Femmes, which is not a bad thing. The ( Read more... )

"Light that smoke yeah one for giving up on me ( Read more... )

"Don't worry
It's just stigmata
Pass me a napkin
And don't you dare tell my mother"
--Clutch, "Army of Bono"

Well it’s ninth and hennepin ( Read more... )

Back! The weekend was pretty cool. I went up to LA to see my sweetie and my (step)brother David, who was visiting from Chicago. We had a lovely Korean BBQ dinner and a few drinks on Saturday, and then we went to see this awesome exhibit at the Santa Monica pier on Sunday ( Read more... )

Okay, I don't usually say bands suck or are terrible - I prefer to couch it in the subjective. For my money, there are far too many people out there who are willing to assume that their opinions are *right* and should be taken as gospel.

That said, the Transplants are fucking TERRIBLE. I'm mightily pissed off, too, because the songs are great - ( Read more... )

In the spirit of fairness, here are the compleat answers to my name that tune exercise from last week:

First of all, the correct answers by poky_sharpy and pewteyLondon calling to the faraway towns: The Clash - London Calling ( Read more... )

...albums of 2005. poky_sharpy reminded me.

In a pretty particular order:

5. Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are KeptA lot of people might discount Louis XIV as a raunchier companion to the neo-new-wave sound of the Killers/Franz Ferdinand/Interpol - a fair criticism. The fact is that I really dig them, and the album has some great tracks on it. ( Read more... )

I had a lovely time at the Halibut holiday party. To all I saw there, it was wonderful to see and chat with you all.
EDIT: I just read what I posted on the subject of the Holiday party, and it seems woefully inadequate. I'm sitting here with my Gryffindor scarf wrapped around me (thanks, blackmoondog!), with my checked scottie dog (thanks, scaffandra!) and aching ( Read more... )

I should have put this in the last post, but I feel like being verbose tonight, so fuck it. Rstevens is a fucking genius. That is all.