Time Capsule

Here ya go...the weekend in pictures. Friday = Celtics over the Bobcats in an ugly, ugly game. Did I mention I plunked down the money for NBA League Pass?
Saturday was the Matthew Sweet show at the 930 Club. He played an awesome set, very heavy on Girlfriend and Altered Beast goodness with a decent smattering of his new stuff thrown in. The Velvet Crush was a capable backing band but weren't so good on their own. The schedule for the night was a bit unique as Matthew opened the festivites (with the VC as his backing band) and played 5 or 6 songs (including a ridonkulous version of "I Wanted To Tell You") before letting the VC play their "opening band" set while stepping in on rythym geetar and backing vocal duties before finishing the show with 10 or so more solo type tunes. All in all, a great show. I hadn't seen him since the Altered Beast tour waaaay back in the day so it was fun. My only complaint was the lighting in the venue was very low so I didn't get a single decent picture.
I was accompanied to the show by Randi, Dara and their friend Karen (pictured below) and we all went to Local 16 afterwards. That place is a bit stuffy but was OK until the overwhelming gaggle of yuppies showed up and took over.

Today is Dara's (on the right) twentysomethingth birthday, so Happy Happy! After fleeing the yuppie scene I ventured over to the Black Cat and met up with a group of unstoppable motherfucking bloggers and had a few more beers there. It was packed in the Red Room, but we managed to find a table after a little while. Strangely, our table was covered in porn when we sat down (apparently it was wrapping for someone's gift) as evidenced by Catherine and Susan's startled looks below.

It should be noted that Catherine is a drinking and smoking machine now that she no longer has to train for the marathon. As she should be. :) Around 12;30 or so, I decided I had had enough and cabbed it down to McPherson Square to catch the Blue Line home.

Sunday night I took in the Crooked Fingers show at the Black Cat. Loyal readers know my undying love for the mighty Archers of Loaf (North Cackalack represent!) so I was very excited about seeing the Big E perform some solo joints. This was my third or fourth time seeing CF and was easily my favorite. The Delgados came out and did a few songs with him as he played a set that jumped around between all three of his full length releases.



Near the end of the set, E asked for requests and he (and a few audience members) chuckled when I yelled Lowest Part Is Free!!!! but he said he doesn't remember how to play any of the old Archers stuff. I felt bad for bringing it up but I couldn't help it.
The evening took an unexpected turn after CF's set when who else do I bump into at the merch table (I forked out some cash for a copy of Red Devil Dawn), none other than the one and only Ed Bellafiore! Ed and I went to school together at ECU and we used to do a radio show on WZMB (the college station) called Across The Pond, which was predictably all English stuff. I had alot of fun doing that show with Ed. He turned me on to so many bands (The Verve, The Housemartins and Billy Bragg just to name three) so it was good to see him. He is living in B'more with his lovely wife and working on HBO's The Wire. We made plans to get together soon. So best!

Hmmmmmm...so it's OK for University officials to get free shit, but not the students/athletes?

Death Cab signs with Atlantic. Not a huge DCFC fan so this doesn't bother me at all. Especially since they already told Elektra to fuck off for what they did to Spoon. Respect.

Speaking of, Spoon are doing a (ver very) brief December tour.

New Moz DVD in the pipeline.