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Come have a few beers with me and the rest of the fine folk at DCist next week. The one and only DJ Leafblower will be spinning some tunes along with some other fine purveyors of the indie rock and such.
Morrissey confirms a few UK tour dates.
Ghostface! Catch the blast of a hype verse and go see the Wu on tour.
Brit Award nominees. [via Coolfer]
For shame all of you. All those words spit about Malkmus and nary a mention of the lovely and talented (headliner!!) Rebecca Gates? It's not like Malkmus played "Westie Cannot Drum" or anything like that.
Hmmmmmmmm...
This is what I get when I try and click on the video of the software demonstration in this story.
Anyone going anywhere interesting for restaurant week? As usual, I slept on making plans so I'm sitting this one out.
In training for most of the day, so we'll be light in the content area today.
Say goodbye to the Powerbook and hiya to the MacBook Pro. I am on the fence about the new name. Also, new iMacs.
Big ups to Frank Chromewaves for the shout out in his interview over at Muzzle of Bees.
Let this be a lesson to you, kids. Don't ever throw a mouse into a burning pile of brush, lest it run under your house while on fire and burn the fucker down.
Pitchfork get proactive about the new Futureheads album.
Oh fuck. Look dude, not that it matters to you or anything, but I've only owned three replica basketball jerseys in my life and I don't want my favorite one to become an ironic throwback, ya heard. My Latrell Spreewell Golden State jersey hasn't seen the light of day in years and I have no idea what happened to my Chris Mullin Olympic Dream Team jersey (which is too bad because that shit was HOTT). Stay green Paul.
I stayed up for three+ quarters of the big game last night, but missed the electrifying conclusion. Luckily The Sports Guy has a great recap to get me (and anyone else that missed it) up to speed. Coming in, I thought USC would be the victor, but when they missed that 4th down conversion early and then Reggie Bush decided to try that incredibly stupid lateral, I knew there would be trouble. Oh well, it was a fun game to watch, even if I was flipping to the Celtics game during commercials so I could yell at Mark Blount. Speaking of, I scored tickets to the game on Saturday when the C's visit the MCI Center. (Thanks Michele!)
Peter Gammons Boston Globe chat transcript.
Barry Gibb bought Johnny Cash's house in Tennessee.
The Futureheads ready their new album. It was/will be produced by Ben Hiller.
The Rolling Stones are too old to attend their own concert. Slightly related, I heard a very crazy rumour about a possible touring partner for the Stones when they come back to the States next year.
John Stewart to host the Oscars. A wise choice methinks. He killed at the Grammy's way back when.
More than once last year my boss has told me to take a vacation. We get two weeks paid leave each year from our company and coming into the last week of 2005, I had only taken six of those days. I finally gave in and took some time off last week, heading to the Poconos for some snowboarding and some serious chill time.
I hadn't really been snowboarding since my knee surgery two years ago. I went once in '03 and once in '04 but both of those were really trial runs and the conditions weren't great so I couldn't really push myself on the mountain. There were three different slopes near the place where I stayed in Pennsylvania and since I had already been to Camelback (and wasn't really impressed with it), I chose to go to Shawnee Mountain this time around. I had low expectations going in but I was pleasantly surprised with the way the day turned out. It snowed off and on throughout the morning, and although the mountain was entirely open, there wasn't really a big crowd there so it was easy to pick and choose which trails to go down. I got a full day of boarding in and although my knee was a little sore, it held up just fine. Good enough that I will be planning at least two more trips later in the year, one in Vermont and another out West. I am so glad snowboarding season is here.
The rest of my time since Xmas has been spent watching DVD's. I got the motherload for Xmas and am really getting my money's worth. I had forgotten how much I loved Sports Night when it was on the air way back when. Easily one of the best written TV shows ever. I never really started watching the West Wing but seeing Sports Night again has made me rethink my position on that show. I know most of seasons 1 & 2 of Coupling by heart but for some reason never really caught the third season, so most of those episodes are new to me. The first season of Lost is really putting the second one to shame. Something big seemingly happens every episode, something you definitely can't say for season two. It just seems to be spinning it's tires. And I've never seen the first season of 24. I cannot effing wait for the new season to start in two weeks!
I start my new job today! New floor in the building, new cube, new everything, including a new computer so I finally have iTunes at work. God bless streaming radio.
information leafblower is on holiday until next Tuesday.
Happy Holidays everyone.
I just got tickets to see Butterstick! Get yours here. Hurry, the weekends are almost gone. I'm lazy and took a date and time later in the month to allow for maximum sleeping-in probability, but there are earlier times still available. [via Wonkette]
Also, during the summer I did an interview with Southwest Airlines Magazine, I think it's called Spirit or something like that, about the whole Nike contest. I had pretty much forgotten about it until last week when two people from work informed me that they read about me on their flight. Apparently I am the main focus of the article(which is funny because Johnny English kept asking me, "What, the 14 people that finished ahead of you in the voting weren't available?"). *Gasp* My cover has been blown! Anyway, with the holiday travel season fast approaching, I'm wondering if someone that has a flight on Southwest could grab a copy or two for me so I can check it out. Thanks!
IS anyone else obsessively reading about the transit strike in NYC? Sometimes events like this in NYC can be alot of fun. The blackout of 2003 was a hoot. But mostly because I was already home. OK, nevermind.
The Guardian on music in the year 2005: Enough Pete Doherty already. I second that emotion.
Me too, only for different reasons.
The Super Furries, The Darkness, The Strokes and some others yet to be announced will rock out for alternative energy in January at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium.
Related: 2005 may be the warmest year ever.
10 applications every new Mac owner should have. [via Lifehacker]
Quickrflickr. Sweet!
Well, we're officially past the halfway point of December, or as I like to call it, the "31 days of drinking" and the schedule shows no sign of letting up. Tonight I'm going to go check out Cartel Cedars at the Black Cat, perhaps with a side trip to Bliss thrown in, before getting all festive at the Annual TomCat Holiday Party. Sleep? What's that? I'm unfamiliar with the term.
I know the upcoming schedule for the 930 is completely craptastic, but peep what's coming up at the Black Cat:
Sat, Jan 14th: Bluestate ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY DANCE PARTY. Obvs.
Sun, Jan15th: Craig Wedren (ex Shudder To Think)
Thur, Jan 26th: Calla (really digging their new CD, I was going to put a song up for download today but I woke up late)
Wed, Feb 1st: The Hold Steady (finally! CatPita (iPod R.I.P.) and Grambo have both approved this band, so I'm intrigued)
Sat, Feb 4th: Low
Thur, Feb 9th: Feist (w00t!)
Fri, Feb 24th: Stars (I know I hated them last time, but I think I'm going to give them another shot)
I've also heard good things about Animal Collective and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, both of who are playing in February. Props to the BC for booking two solid months of shows when there generally aren't many great band on tour.
Also, let it be known, that The Hold Steady have thrown down the gauntlet for The National. WHY DOES THE NATIONAL HATE WASHINGTON DC?
Beatles sue EMI. More over at The Beeb.
Oasis added "Talk Tonight" to the set in Glasgow. Buzz.
New Moz Q&A over at True To You dot net.
Come over here and tour you fuckers.
I think I already posted this, but Yay! New Underworld.
First Impressions of Earth, from widdly-woo to widdly-woeful.
My fortune, from today's lunch of chinese food:
Kind of apropos considering everything that has been happening to me lately. I've gotten quite a few emails asking me what in the hell was the good news I was talking about last week, well here's the scoop.
I got a new job!
Actually, I'm moving into a new position at my company, leaving the world of print production behind for the wonderful world of eMedia. Now I'll have an excuse to stare at a computer monitor all day long. I'm very, very excited about this opportunity and I feel like all the work I've put into the leafblower and the other sites I've written for is finally starting to pay off. You have no idea how many times me ex told me I was wasting my time writing stuff on the internet. I had to hear it alot, but in a way it just made me more determined. I guess that's why she's my ex. She mars.
So come January 3rd I'll be editing our flagship website, which gets a few hundred thousand hits a day. I'm a bit nervous about the whole thing, but in a good way.
Bob Pollard at the 930 Club on Jan. 28.
Feist at the Black Cat on Feb. 9th!
Stephen King hearts Spoon (scroll down), but Kazakhstan does not heart Borat.
Who will be the hottest bands next year?
Concert review: Oasis in Cardiff. Same old set.
Look out UK, here come The Wiggles.
Agreed. Stop it already.
Less Mr. Pink? For serious?
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