Flight of the Conchords are touring the States. Their show is so funny, it often causes me to spit up my beer, and the songs are great. But after seeing them at Amoeba (okay, only vicariously through this guy’s video), I don’t know that I really need to see them when they play the Orpheum [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Flight of the Conchords tour
Posted in Bands, Comedy, Flight of the Conchords, Los Angeles, Performers, Songwriters, Television on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the Lesbians are suing!
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Politics on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No, not those lesbians. These Lesbians.
A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women.
Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for [...]
Lou Reed marries Laurie Anderson
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Other Stuff, Performers, Songwriters, The Velvet Underground on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Apparently Lou Reed married Laurie Anderson in a secret ceremony in Colorado a few weeks ago, with Richard Belzer (yeah, the comedian) and some other wacky New Yorkers in attendance:
So Lou ties the knot with Laurie Anderson, at the sprightly age of 66… the electroconvulsive therapy Reed received in his teen years, allegedly in response [...]
Imaad Wasif
Posted in Bands, Bobb Bruno, Folk, L.A. Record, Performers, Personal Shit, Songwriters on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There was an L.A. Record presence at the show I went to with orangehairboy last night, and I was kind of shocked and horrified to open the most recent issue and see Bobb Bruno standing there in a photo next to Imaad Wasif. I guess they’re playing together now.
Actually, Imaad Wasif can be pretty good [...]
No Age at the Ukrainian Culture Center
Posted in Bands, Los Angeles, Shows on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I saw No Age last night at the Ukrainian Culture Center on Melrose. It was a pretty fun show, and though the acoustics at the hall weren’t perfect (the mikes were cutting in and out, and the place was a bit of a barn), No Age sounded much better than when I’ve heard them at [...]
the Poubelle twins
Posted in Performers on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to Shmutzig last night at El Cid to hear DJ Algonquin spin twenties and thirties music. Though things weren’t as crowded as they used to get at Bricktops back during the Parlour Club days (boy, do I miss Miss Davis), it was fun to walk into El Cid and find the Poubelle twins giving out free slaps to [...]
Peanut Butter Wolf
Posted in Hip Hop, Other Stuff, Performers, Shows on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend was so crazily drenched in booze, I’m still trying to sort out what happened.
At some point I stumbled into Amoeba Records, and Peanut Butter Wolf just happened to be doing an in-store performance. He seemed to be either mixing video, or mixing music to a pre-edited video. For the most part, I was [...]
Doctor and the Medics
Posted in Bands, Television on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The great thing about YouTube is that you can rekindle old memories of obscure television from long ago.
I always had this memory of being young and seeing Norman Greenbaum perform “Spirit in the Sky” with glam rock makeup on, but could never find an example of it. Turns out I was actually remembering this:
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Luigi Russolo’s intonarumori
Posted in Albums, Art, Classical Moosic, Electronic Music, Futurism, Other Stuff, Performers, Songwriters on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another great purchase I got at Amoeba this weekend was Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises, a compilation of Futurist speeches, original recordings, and recreations of music and noise composed by the Italian Futurist ringleader F.T. Marinetti, as well as Silvio Mix, Franco Casavola, Francesco Balilla Pratella, and a bunch of other crazy Italian artist [...]
Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes
Posted in Albums, Classical Moosic, Electronic Music, Ligeti, Songwriters on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I went with my girlfriend to Amoeba Records this weekend–and of course, we both easily spent over a hundred dollars on records we previously never knew existed, yet could not afford to pass up.
But one of my purchases was a premeditated conquest. For a few years now, I’ve been selectively collecting the works of Gyorgy Ligeti, [...]
