So Chelsey's show was quite a success, if I do say so myself. Its funny, sometimes when I watch her perform I forget that I know her at all, and then I'm just kind of in awe of her. She's a force of nature. We talked about the lyric "I don't know if takes strength to love or strength to lose" and she said "I really don't. Do you?" Its weird, I ( Read more... )

Sorry folks, Chelsey's show is actually at Cup of Tea on college at 7 on friday. The Nomad show is in June. Again CUP OF TEA AT 7 ( Read more... )

Hey, if you live in the Bay Area, please try to come to Chelsey's show at The Nomad Cafe at Shattuck and 65th. Imagine Joni Mitchell singing Bonnie "Prince" Billy songs with a total disregard for song structure and you're halfway there. Chelsey is seriously the best songwriter I know, which is saying a lot coming from me. She has a new song ( Read more... )

So yesterday I found myself hiking through the woods alone, listening to sigur ros, smoking american spirits, more or less at peace with the world. (seriously!) Later Chelsey and I talked about the distentegration of relationships, especially as the formalities of friendship are cast off to see what, if anything, real still exists. I think all of ( Read more... )

Bruce Springsteen is god. If I was white, working class, and more talented, I would spend the rest of my life trying to become him. When Donald was here I rented a DVD of live performances, one of which had the Boss playing "born in the USA" solo on open tuned slide guitar! And let me fucking tell you, it rocked. The intro had a Celtic sound, ( Read more... )

So I've finally encountered an artist so weird that his weirdness actually surpasses my admiration for his art. Mark Kozelek, amazing singer, talented songwriter, formidable actor, weirded me out so much at the Sun Kil Moon show last night that I can't really listen to his songs. Observe ( Read more... )

Did anyone out there know that Leonard Cohen's "take this waltz" was based on a Federico Garcia Lorca poem? I was listening to it over and over again last night and was scanning the liner notes to see who did the string arrangement when I happened to see "lyrics based upon Pequeño vals vienés. Lorca." I can't seem to escape this guy. Last time I ( Read more... )

Oh wow, PHS's musical kind of blew. (and not kind of blue, you hipsters, it kind of blew, as an the past tense of blow.) I imagine the choice to have the proficient actors was the right one, with the competent singers taking on smaller roles, but when your lead doesn't realize that he's sharp on a note that sustains for four bars, you have a ( Read more... )

what in god's name have I become, talking about tennis in my LJ? I swear, from now on the only reason I will mention those preppy fuckers is to mock them. Then again, it seems I really have no one else I interact with on any regular basis. A number of the most meaningful connections in my life have been dissolving, slowly but surely. Not that ( Read more... )

Perhaps I am abandoning all pretense of hipster chic coolness, but I'm gonna go ahead and brag about how ridiculously fucking good my tennis team is. (Notice MY tennis team, as I am, in fact, team captain.) Check it: we are undefeated thus far, having kicked the crap out of basically everyone. Today we beat CPS 7-0, which usually isn't a big ( Read more... )