Yesterday afternoon, I spent about 45 minutes trying to track down who the opening band for They Might Be Giants would be. None was listed anywhere, and the band that is opening for them at almost all the other shows of the tour (Oppenheimer, who seems pretty good, judging by their myspace songs), was not listed for the Moore show. Since sometimes ( Read more... )

After missing Spoon and The Brunettes, I decided I need to get organized with this whole "buying tickets" thing again. Thus, here is my list of possible shows for the next few months; I think I'm gonna have to actually go to box offices, because otherwise, I'm probably looking at a quite a bit of money in just service fees. It might be worth it ( Read more... )

Today is the last day to get bumbershoot tickets for $25 bucks per day, so I am contemplating my strategy. I can get them august 4th at starbucks, for $30 each, though there aren't service fees on those, so it's more like a difference of a buck fifty than 5 bucks. I can't believe how miserly I am about some things, yet fully willing to spend, on ( Read more... )

is it weird that, as a fan of kool-aid (though I didn't like it as a kid, mom made it with too much sugar), I dislike the phrase "drinking the kool-aid"?

Well, I missed my chance to become a rockstar, then die at 27. I guess I'm 28 about now, so that's cool.

I'm going on a bit of a road trip to the peninsula today, but when I'm back, I expect to see some LJ posts about your weekends, slackers!

Anyone going to see Gibbard tonight?

Is anyone going to Sasquatch this year?

Twice today, I found myself talking to friends about how I love living in Seattle. That said, my $100 a month rent increase and the subject of this article do balance that out a little bit.

I went to the Seattle Art Museum today with Kevin and Jake, and it was neat to see, and I definitely saw things I liked, but sometimes I feel a little uncultured ( Read more... )

Are any of you readers really interested in seeing the Decemberists at the Paramount tonight? I have had a few takers fall through, and significant others are posing a significant problem to my attempts to find a taker for this ticket.