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In The Spirit Of...

No, that is not a band name, however, it just might be. Whatever.

In the spirit of festival talk (thank you sumeet), i will tell you (who's you?) about the one i should be attending this saturday. is it just me or do all the good festivals happen at the end of summer (or even after it?)

F Yeah Fest. Could it get any better? :


NO AGE
NEGATIVE APROACH
GLASS CANDY
MATT AND KIM
TWO GALLANTS
FUCKED UP
LADYHAWK
DAVID VANDERVELDE
JAPANTHER
PAINT IT BLACK
MIKA MIKO
PAST LIVES (EX BLOOD BROTHERS)
MONOTONIX
HIGH PLACES
DAVID DONDERO
ABE VIGODA
THE STRANGE BOYS
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
TRASH TALK
MANNEQUIN MEN
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND
BEST FWENDS
TRIUMPH OF LETHARGY SKINNED ALIVE TO DEATH (MEM. OF MURDER CITY DEVILS)
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
RUMSPRINGA
ANAVAN
PREACHER AND THE KNIFE
BROTHER READE
MICHAEL RUNION
TOD ADRIAN WISENBAKER
SILVERGHOST
WAR TAPES
FRANK FAIRFIELD
GRAHAM FOREST
NODZZZ
60 WATT KID
HALLOWEEN SWIM TEAM
DIMITRI COATES FROM BURNING BRIDES
WITCH HATS




omygod.



be there! (no pictures, just amazing band names)



HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT TO SEE THIS?????

DGAF Oxford Comma

Here is my hook...
Beck, The Black Crowes, Justice, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Michael Franti & Spearhead, The National, Spoon, TV on The Radio, Atmosphere, Cat Power, Hot Chip, Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers, X, Vampire Weekend, The Hives, Cold War Kids, Ghostland Observatory, Spiritualized, Antibalas, Man Man, The Mother Hips, Tokyo Police Club, DeVotchKa, The Night Marchers, Nortec Collective presents Bostich + Fussible, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, Del The Funky Homosapien, Eagles of Death Metal, Foals, The Muslims, Dengue Fever, MGMT, Sea Wolf, West Indian Girl and Chester French.

Yes it is a list. I know its not the conventional hook but what if all these bands listed were to play a music festival on sept 19th and 20th in San Diego. I am bubbling with excitement over that lineup. I can count 23 bands that I have come to love over the past couple years yet have not yet seen live. I will however get that chance when I attend the concert on the 19th and 20th somewhere near Petco park.

Ill be somewhere in the middle of this while at the same time ill be in a different place altogether














randoms thoughts of the week:
Adam Carolla is my comedic idol. (Audio NSFW)


Skeletal Lamping (upon first listen) makes no sense and complete sense at the same time.

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I watched Speed Racer again and still believe it is the second best action film of the year. Second to TDK.

Ill get around to putting up several of my 10 minute mix tapes sometime never...

Forgotten Bands (by Me!): The Scarves (of Sandy Hook, CT)

Katharina is a cool name. I put "Katharina" on a mix cd a long while ago; probably two or three years. listening to this song again reminds me of how much i liked the song. i still do of course, but i totally forgot just how powerful the opening chords are. Where did this band go? Maybe they are still in Sandy Hook, a place i wouldn't mind visiting.

Go have a listen: http://www.myspace.com/thescarvesrock



The rest of their three songs are just as powerful and awesome. Listen to them, too.

Vampire Fortnight?

There is no denying Vampire Weekend's originality and success(although some argue that the African influence was an idea first patented in Graceland by Paul Simon). And because they grew to such enormous popularity some bands who sound eerily similar are bound to pop up. Well Vampire Weekend's debut cd was a worldwide hit and across the pond a band called Little Comets has taken Vampire Weekend's sound and made an outstanding CD of their own. Now of course Little Comets did not just copy Vampire Weekend. Little Comets take the sound and mix in a bit of the British punk rock sound. Overall I recommend Little Comets to anyone who enjoyed Vampire Weekends debut, which seems to be pretty much everyone.
Anywho check out their myspace and here is a song to taste.
Little Comets - Drink Up



ohhh and btw. Who wants to go to SD street scene and catch the VW?

Exodus, or: HEALTH at The Smell//Monday, July 28th, 2008

First of all, let me preface by saying this: i legitimately thought i was going to die at least twice during HEALTH's performance on Monday. I have never been to a more intense, more outrageously loud, more unbearably hot show in my entire life. I was certain i was going to pass out and fall to the floor, where i would be trampled by the blind masses as HEALTH dealt the rest of the living their undeniably unique "blend" of loud, scratchy, eardrum-shattering, pissing-in-your-mouth, ambient death blasts. It sounds like a cat wrapped in saran wrap stuck in a blender, in the best possible way.

Before HEALTH even came on i was frightened near half to death by Mid Wife, easily the scariest anything to come out of Washington or h*ll or wherever they came from. At the time i hated them because between each "song" they had an ear-splitting feedback squeal coming from a horrible little grey box that made my world horrible for each eternal second they kept it on. However, after they were done, i realized they were quite alright. The best part about them was their James Chance-style saxophone playing (used for two underwhelmingly short songs).

Foot Village played before Mid Wife and were easily the night's most intriguingly stunning act. Four drummers screaming and chanting into megaphones is always a good thing. And they were incredibly drummers. Truly talented.

i would mention the first guy who played, but i couldn't explain to you anything further than his use of popular songs and transforming them into the loudest blasts of pure noise you've ever heard. My heart had a hard time keeping it's rhythm and i'm not just saying that.

Anyways, HEALTH was amazing and i realized i am too weak and scrawny to be in the same pit as people twice my weight or at least body fat percentage. I was scared and rightfully so. I loved HEALTH, but when one kid told them to keep playing, i had to ask him to stop saying anything, because i couldn't handle one more song. I was exhausted.

After the show the bassist//whatever sold me a shirt and a cd for only 20 bucks! SICK!

HEALTH - "CRIMEWAVE"

Genesis

s- "i knew islands was a band, but not arms"
lets start a blog with that name
haha

m- let's do it!
why not?
we realy don't have much to lose, right?

s- lol alright i guess because its summer there is more time for one so yes lets do it
but this one cannot end up like the last 3
haha
oh
a better name is needed
i say we keep in line with making fun of rediculous band names
something with Wolf in it as 100 bands seem to use that in their name
or something....

m- Horse Wolf

lots of bands use horse now

and bear, too i guess

horse wolf bear
horse bear wolf?

haha i don't know

s- ur forgetting the most common word of them all!
THE
THE Horse Wolf Bear
i would of said The The but thats taken already by perhaps the indiest band of all

hmm The Horse Wolf Bear sounds like a 3 headed creature
we need an adjective asap

m- indie
or indie-est
haha

hmm,
what adjective were you thinkin of?

s- hm Indie is an adjective right?
its alot of things i guess
in some ways it is also really nothing
i digress
lets leave out the adjective
The horse wolf bear it is. unless u see a way to improve it. maybe the horse bear wolf?or The bear horse wolf or Horse the bear wolf???

m- hahahha horse the bear wolf
funnyness

i dont care
haha
whatever you want
yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo

s- Horse the Bear Wolf it is!
i can totally see a picture of a bear wolf with a my name is Horse name tag attached to its chest area. ill work on that in photoshop sometime.
well i guess we are familiar with the procedure of setting one up
u should receive an email of sorts in a day or so.

s- ohh another idea for our macot Horse the Bear Wolf
a flanel jacket and black rimmed glasses! what else would make him the cliche of indie?

m- an ipod or itouch or something

hahaha o indie kids

so this blog was created on the 31st of July in the year 2008 of someones lord or something....