| tour mishaps |
[Dec. 8th, 2004|02:21 pm] |
Patrick and I are in DC on our "New Folk Sounds of Arts and Crafts" tour. Last night we went with our friend Brandon to a place called Staccato's Piano Bar in the Adams Morgan neighborhood for their open mic night. We got there at 7 PM to sign up, just as the bar was opening. No one else showed up until close to 9 and so we hung out and waited. We were on the hunt for legendary Adams Morgan Jumbo slice and the bartender explained the situation that there were three places that had it. One was across the street and was supposed to be really greasy and gross, appealing only after one was very drunk, but he said that there were two places a few blocks down the street that were next door to each other called "Jumbo Slice" and "Original Jumbo Slice" and they were supposed to be interchangeable in terms of deliciousness. We headed over there and came to a restaurant that said "Jumbo Slice" on the front and we went in and each got a slice. The slices are about 18-20 inches long and 10 inches wide at the crust. It wasn't too bad, but it was rather cold and the quality was somewhat low. After I finished my slice, I went for a stroll up the block and noticed that the two restaurants that we were looking for were further down the block and we had inadvertently eaten at an inferior "Jumbo Slice" that the bartender failed to mention. That wasn't such a big deal, but a disappointing failure in our Jumbo Slice mission nevertheless. We came back to the bar and got ready for the open mic. The guy running the open mic seemed to be a little freaked out by my franken-guitar, which I had to mess with a little to adjust the sound. He made some comment like "What is this, a science project?" Brandon's band Jimes played first doing a song by himself and then two songs with Pat on guitar and me on piano. You can get his albums for free download going to www.geocities.com/cowjimes. The open mic guys didn't seem to like it very much. The MC said afterward "I think I speak for everyone here when I say that all I can say is WOW." I played three songs on their piano, which wasn't miked, so it was really quiet and some women were having an incredibly loud conversation making it really hard for me to play. I thought I did OK nevertheless. The open mic guy said something like "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." I don't know what that meant really. Pat played dish fairy first, which worked pretty well over the loud conversation, but the bartender and the open mic guy got really pissed. My friend Matt from Little Rock, who came down to the bar to see us, tried to order a beer for him and me, but the bartender refused to serve him and checked him out. I guess the bartender and the open mic guy had some conversation about needing to cut Pat off, and they cut him off after his second song. When Pat asked if he could do one more, the open mike guy said "no way" and that Pat's set was like having sex with a porcupine. The bartender told Brandon and me that he wanted to talk to us outside, to which I replied "no" and ignored the fact that he walked out of the bar onto the sidewalk. It's funny how easy it is to reject falsely assumed authority like that. It's also pretty fucked up that people try to pull shit like that all of the time. We packed our stuff up and walked out where the bartender was talking to Matt about how they needed to make money and allegedly we were driving away customers. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chicken_pat_pie has an alternate perspective of the night and more tour journaling than I care to do.
You may have noticed that I have alternated between the spelling "open mic" and "open mike." There is some considerable discussion about it at http://home.comcast.net/~sambayer/music/whymike.html but I'm still a lot more comfortable using "open mic." |
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[Aug. 24th, 2004|08:35 am] |
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you can check out a cool new song by the melting moments. the current lineup is anna & me. |
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| show on friday |
[Jul. 8th, 2004|12:25 am] |
this friday there will be a rock show featuring:
fort rile dog (from chicago)
jib kidder
jason voss
at oz music in ann arbor
1920 packard (just east of stadium next to big ten party store)
friday july 9
9 pm all ages $5 |
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[Jun. 29th, 2004|06:03 am] |
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i went to pizza house last night after the van show with dustin, eliza, thanksgiving, his girlfriend and cains & abels. we had an incredible feast for cheap after the waitresses misunderstood my order for "three-cheese nachos" as "three cheese nacho" and we got two extra platters for free. it's a good idea to try it the next time you want a seven-layer burrito. |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2004|02:46 am] |
i made the mistake of going through a section of the wcbn cd library called "world: other" this weekend. for anyone who doesn't know the genre, "world: other" is a kind of music combining celtic instrumentation with african rhythms and some other shit to make music that expresses the unity of all humans and the beauty of mother earth. that shit will fuck with your head. it's also really hard to explain to your therapist how it makes you feel about the world.
i guess i got too cocky after my extreme success dividing the section formerly known as the local section into two sections: "the local section" and "the mid-90s bar bands from sterling heights section." the latter section is filled with a lot of very good music that's really just not for us.
by anarchivist's logic, i can say right here on the internet, "black tent sounds like kraftwerk meets modest mouse," and he'd have a really vicious criticism of that music (the only one) and make fun of how much it sucks a lot. you'd expect more acceptance from someone who weasels his way into every possible show that's woefully inappropriate for boring-as-fuck derivative noise music with no real content of any kind. |
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| house show |
[Apr. 25th, 2004|03:03 pm] |
this monday, april 26 there will be a very cool show at 514 monroe (behind south quad) at 9 pm. the performers are:
sandman (the rappin cowboy)
ivan okay (wisconsonian pop music)
eliza beatrix godfrey (like if kelly caldwell never broke up with any boys or smoked any cigarettes)
jason voss (4-string guitar player; novice)
this is my first show ever doing this kind of thing and i will play promptly at 9, so don't be late. |
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| famous |
[Apr. 8th, 2004|01:18 pm] |
i got interviewed for a belgian magazine (which is written in dutch). they are printing an article about cd-r labels sometime in june. i think the interview is just for research (so none of it will be printed), but here is the interview:
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that was the first time i ever used lj-cut. i hope i used the proper lj-cut etiquette. in other news, dustin and eliza played on the local music show last night and it was totally awesome. they did a crazy cover of "here" by pavement as well as "i think we're alone now" and "king of the road" by roger miller. i also have been working on an awesome database of ann arbor music. i have my collection all entered (about 300 records) and i'm starting on the radio station's stuff. i need to figure out how to make databases. i'm also trying to write a column for the zine "bad ideas," which is made by josh sanchez and some other local punks, so i've been setting aside some time each day to concentrate on being punk rock.
for anyone who doesn't know, next wednesday is the second in our new series of ever will you get there live performances. we're meeting at liberty plaza (formerly the "bum park" before the "cool cities initiative" got to work) at 6 pm and then walking about the streets of ace deuce. everyone is invited to come and play music, either just by jingling yr keys along with the rhythm or playing guitar and singing yr own song. i'm a little nervous because it's the first time without justin and it will be during the day when more people will be around. |
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[Apr. 4th, 2004|05:38 pm] |
i feel embarrassingly great about the world lately. i've smoked three cigarettes and am feeling surprisingly good about not smoking very much. yesterday, i made 30 copies of the ever will you get there cd from last monday and i gave them all away (or at stores) yesterday. i'm going to make a bunch more. let me know if you want one. i don't want to make money off of it since it was made by so many different people (some of whom i don't even know) so you can buy it for expenses or cool trades or whatever. i'm really happy with it. the ever will you get there website will be up soon. i need to figure out a plan for where to put all the websites i want to make.
if anyone wants to join a very cool arts group, caacaafony (citizens of ann arbor, concerned about art fair, organizing to nullify yuppification) is starting up for real. there is some stuff up temporarily at fairart.burningtonguerecords.com and we are planning to have a schedule of cool artsy-protesty events during art fair week. hopefully it will be the sort of thing that redefines art fair and makes it cooler instead of just protesting against it. join us. |
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| looking up |
[Apr. 2nd, 2004|07:30 am] |
i have written not a thing on livejournal for many moons. starting this past tuesday i have awoken between 5:30 and 6:30 AM every day (on accident). it seems like this is going to happen every day from now on. i have smoked zero cigarettes since monday at about 8 PM (a little less than 84 hours ago). once i make it through today (at midnight) i will consider phase one of not smoking over. i have been doing pushups instead. i miss smoking a lot. it was a very rewarding hobby.
this evening, the toy keyboard orchestra is performing as part of the art opening at the work gallery on state street just south of liberty. we will be seated on the roof of a full-size van in front of the gallery. we are not officially allowed to do this. it starts at 7 PM. |
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| musical event on tuesday |
[Jul. 7th, 2003|09:30 am] |
on to-morrow, tuesday july 8, there will be an event at jacob's house at 1419 granger in ann arbor, mi. the performers will be:
kelly caldwell
ben bracken & jacob danziger
ever will you get there (justin shay and me)
jacob danziger
it will happen outdoors, in the back yard and will commence at about 8 pm. there will be treats. granger is off of packard down by stadium and jacob's house is betwixt olivia and lincoln just before burns park. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2003|03:38 pm] |
last evening at approximately 1:30 AM, i played the best game of scrabble in my life thus far. it wsa a five person game and the formalities of compiling the final score went undone, but i can say for certain that the winning move was a placement of the word "BUSTLER" using all seven of my tiles. i also played "LOANEE." thank goodness for the oxford english dictionary that was close at hand for challenges.
melissa is being super nice to me today.
on saturday night, i went to the hospital with three people whom i had never met. it was much like a gritty modern play with these characters: Jason - 30 years old, inebriated and bleeding profusely from the face. Jason - quiet, sober, wearing red short pants and a tie-dyed t-shirt with "live yr dreams" and a crude unicorn drawn with a black sharpie. Travis - a small and fashionable male, talkative, approximately 22 years old, who i have seen each day for the past three years without ever having spoken to him. "Creepy Guy" - aged 34 with a black velvet shirt on.
the dialogue contained multiple utterances of the phrase "touch the shirt and be happy." the plot seemed a bit forced. |
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| black forest girls tonight! |
[Nov. 13th, 2002|11:52 am] |
it's late notice but the new lineup of the black forest girls is playing its first live rock show this evening at leopold brothers.
the lineup is:
kelly caldwell - singing and guitar
grace thorson - bells, tambourine and singing
jason voss - bass and singing
steve - guitar and singing
we are supposed to play at 10. a band called "in lieu of" is also playing after us. it costs money ($5?) to get in. i think it is 21+. |
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[Oct. 2nd, 2002|03:22 am] |
a lot of times lately, but not so much very recently, i've been really sad and the only thing that cheers me up is thinking about dressing the cats up and having them do people things. i think it would make quite a solid series of short films for example "mr. burgers goes the supermarket" and "ms. schwinn gets a bad haircut."
as for trading spaces, either dustin or katy said that frank was both insane and stupid, but i think he is mostly insane and an asshole. and the times when he wears a dark shirt, the horror is almost unbearable.
marcelo radulovich is by new favorite band. |
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[Aug. 21st, 2002|09:36 pm] |
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when i was much younger than i am now, i had a subscription to highlights magazine for children. on every issue under the name of the magazine was the subtitle: "fun with a purpose." i think that i asked around about the meaning of the word "purpose," mispronounced it and thought for a long time that the magazine said "fun with a porpoise." i only got a cursory definition of the word "porpoise" as a dolphin-like creature that saved people from drowning. so for a long time, i was confused and intrigued about how the highlights magazine related to having fun with a porpoise. i think that i figured they had lost their way at some point and forsaken their original mission. |
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[Aug. 9th, 2002|01:41 am] |
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would anyone come to see saturday looks good to me play at summer smash this evening (friday). it's at c-pop. i'm not sure who else is playing, but i think there might be someone else that isn't awful. |
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[Jul. 16th, 2002|05:42 am] |
the and spiders east coast tour in the year of our lord twenty-ought two is happening this friday july nineteen through this saturday july twenty. here is our itinerary:
noonday july 19 recording at wfmu, jersey city, new jersey, usa. (not confirmed)
eight pm july 19 at the read, williamsburg, brooklyn, new york, usa with karla shickele and cynthia nelson.
evening july 20 at matt buckman's house, boston, massachusetts, usa (opener tba)
if you can fill any of the holes in the schedule, let me know. |
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[Jul. 15th, 2002|02:12 pm] |
i got my atcat cd in the mail today. it is very good and they cover prehensile monkeytailed skink!
the debut album by chicken/mechanic will be recorded in the next little while. please reply with any requests for cover songs on the album. it is part of the chicken/mechanic mission statement to make a valiant effort at any requests, so we will record anything you suggest. so far for sure we have planned:
"chicken/mechanic fight song"
"livin on a prayer"
"black candy"
"love in an elevator"
"freebird"
"every rose has its thorn"
"better off alone"
something by skink or couch or both
something by awk
something by adult
something by madonna
something by t. rex
something by the stooges
"chicken/mechanic fight song (reprise)"
we also will be performing our annual art fair rock show on the island at state and liberty street, time tba. |
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