Concert Number One

I've really fallen off the concert wagon lately, and have gone to hardly any shows in the last few months. A few weeks ago, I suddenly discovered late on a Sunday night that The Hold Steady would be playing the next day in Baltimore, that the show still wasn't sold out, and that they wouldn't be playing DC until the very end of ( Read more... )

I decided that if I wasn't going to get any actual work done this weekend I should at least rip a few more CDs with iTunes before getting sucked back into City of Crack. Here's what's on the stack right now:

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - BleachNas ( Read more... )

I haven’t written anything in a long time ( Read more... )

I should probably LJ-cut this entry, but I'm just too darn lazy . . . in any event, here are some long overdue tidbits from the last month or so.

Results of Spending the Past Weekend Playing in the City of Villains Headstart
I'll Take Your Head, Level 11, Ninja/Ninja Stalker, Infinity Server
The Space Lizard, Level 10, Rad/Thermal Corruptor, ( Read more... )

Thing One
I am really enjoying playing in the City of Villains beta test, even though I wasted a few days of horrible lag and annoyance before I had the sense to try to run it in SAFE Mode. I still might need to buy a new computer, eventually, in order to truly take advantage of this game, but I don't have any real complaints about Safe Mode, ( Read more... )

Seems like that's almost all I post about lately . . . oh well!

Friday Night
Alejandro Escovedo Orchestra, with opening acts Lenny Kaye (founding member, the Patti Smith Group) and John Dee Graham (solo acoustic). 9:30 Club.

Saturday Night
Brazilian Girls. Midnight show. 9:30 Club.

Sunday AfternoonChopteeth (afro-funk big band). Free, outdoor ( Read more... )

So I was just updating my Life Concert List with the shows of the past eight days, and I thought that it might be fun to post here. The list itself is pretty incredibly long, although if you consider the fact that it covers over 20 years of concert-going I guess it's not THAT outlandish. Entries are roughly chronological, but it's hardly a rigid ( Read more... )

Wow. I mean ... just, wow. That has to have been one of the most fun, intense, artistically and intellectually stimulating, music-saturated, frenzied-media-buying weekends that I have ever experienced, and the fact that I spent it with my cool cousin Rachel and her even cooler husband Mike just suffused the whole thing with a warm, loving glow ( Read more... )

My plane leaves for Chicago in 2 hours and eleven minutes. I leave the house in five.

This is the greatest lengths I've ever gone to in order to see a concert ... you'd better be up to it, Mr. Stevens, because my expectations are going to be pretty high!

I'll post about this. Really.

The clickable ones are things I downloaded from eMusic.com today. They now have an annual pricing plan for each of their membership levels that's about 20% less than the monthly fee I've been paying. I know I'm addicted, there's no point in denying it, so I went ahead and signed up, which got me an extra 90 tracks just after my regular ( Read more... )