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Friday, October 24, 2003
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Monday, October 20, 2003
The Strokes = Amazing Show? I was not expecting the Strokes to put on such a great show. When I heard they were coming to chi-town I wasn't even totally interested in going, but with my cousins urging I decided to check 'em out. Why not - "It This It?" did become on of my favorite CDs of the past few years and I love to read the Strokes latest shenanigans in the NME (their favorite band.) My apprehensions where because I've heard that their are kind of aloof onstage and don't really interact with the audience. I'm tired of going to boring ass-shows. But then again their new CD rocks and has been in CD player for 90% of the past few weeks and after reading whatevs glowing review my expectations were high. But my expectations were blown away by hearing their songs live and seeing the amount of feeling/energy they put in to it. OK Nick and Nicoli are basically nailed to the stage, but luckily for us we standing in front of Albert and who not only looked, but also acted like he had been getting electric shocks throughout the show. Julian was singing his heart out and the crowd is into all the songs, even the new ones. Of course the biggest crowd bouncing songs were Last Night and Someday, but NYC Cops and theModernAge did get the everyone jumping or jamming. What's up with Albert spitting giant luggies straight up into the air? I'm sure a few of them landed in his wild mane. Highly Recommended! The wifey played stealth and snuck in the digicam for me, hence I finally got to take some good pictures at a show. Check some of 'em out out below. click on any of them to see all the pics I took. Pictures back up soon - hopefully they'll actually work this time Friday, October 17, 2003
Talk about "Ripped from the Headlines", Kevin James (from the very Funny King of Queens, is going to play a character based on Steve Bartman, better known as the poor guy who cost the Cubbies the chance at going to the World Series. I feel sorry for the guy, a split second decision/reaction has put his life in turmoil. From the same site. Pictures from the upcoming Antoine Fuqua/Jerry Bruckheimer movie "King Arthur." I ask you, why do people find Keira Knightley so hot?
This weekend it's the excellent double bill of the Strokes and "their Southern Counterparts" the Kings of Leon at the Aragon in Chicago. Uncle Grambo over at the excellent whatevs posted a glowing review (not really a review, but whatevs.) I can't wait, because not only I have I not been to a show since Coldplay let me down in early in the summer, I really like both bands and the Strokes new CD is blowing me away. I read somewhere that "Is This It?" hasn't even gone platinum over here, wtf, Kelly Clarkson is probably double plat. by now!! On the Strokes site they mentioned they had to change the venue due to "technical conflicts" aka - we didn't sell enough tickets to play at the UIC Pavillion. All the better for the fans since the Aragon is great and the UIC Pavillion sucks. It's not too surprising either especially since the new CD hasn't even come on yet. Can't wait till it does. Check out the Tron/Last Night inspired video for "12:51" at the Strokes site (look in the music channel.)
Monday, October 06, 2003
A whole bunch of interesting movie news via JoBlo.com Richie Cunningham to direct the Da Vinci Code. The Beautiful Mind Producer/Director/Writer team heads up this production. It's going to be interesting who will be cast as Langdon. Spike Jones's next to be a horror movie. He's teaming up with Charlie Kaufman again too! Ice Cube to replace Vin Diesel in XXX-2 Interesting - could be kind of cool if they don't recycle the first movie too much. Could this be a franchise for rappers? Could you see DMX, 50 Cent, or even Eminem as secret agent with street smarts and bad-ass attitude. (I sure hope not.) Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Click the pic to read about Tarantino and the upcoming (I can't f'ing wait) KILL BILL. (link courtesy of whatevs)
I was chatting with my buddy zerohk the other day and we were discussing British 90's bands who still have it. He mentioned Radiohead and Blur. I added to that list Travis who is becoming one of my top bands of all time (this list is quite exclusive and doesn't really change that much.) Not only have all 3 of their albums been great, they put out a plethora of amazing bsides and covers, put on a great live show with the a lot of energy and interaction with the audience, and their new CD '12 Memories' is great. Miss Modernage mentioned how much she likes them even though "it's tragically un-hip to love Travis" (?) I've been on a serious Travis kick lately (in preparation to seeing them this Halloween.) Been listening to them (and the new Strokes) non-stop. I read a excellent article about them here (it's a pdf) and it has a great quote from Fran that sums up what is so great about them. "There’s a honesty about our songs. A guy told me the other day his friend had committed suicide and they played Sing at his funeral. Our songs help people though a hard time, they ’re a fast cab out of a bad situation. When you talk to them people rarely ever want to say any more than ‘thanks’. You never get stopped, no weird shit. We’re not a badge-wearer band. If you like Radiohead or REM it says something about you – you ’re a bit intellectual, you ’re a bit leftfield but you’re not saying anything about yourself by liking Travis. Which is why we ’ve never appealed to the elite. But everyone, generally, all over the world feels the same things, they mourn, they have joy, they have love and loss, and there’s something about Travis that has a resonance."
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Since I'm taking about a band that is most excellent Let me give some equal time to bands that are pure shite. Two on my hit list today are 