November 29, 2006Why My Life Is Crazier Than YoursI just got a text message about going to meet Jim Dandy and Sebastian Bach. dude. somebody's sleeping next to the toilet tonight - and it's not gonna be me. I think I would rather stay home and continue to listen to David Cross do Diarrhea Moustache. I actually love Sebastian on Gilmore Girls. Which reminds me, I need to finish downloading season 6... Alright, that's all I got.
November 26, 2006If You Missed The Indie Memphis Music Video ShowcaseThursday Nov. 30 will be a great night of Memphis music on video. There will be a presentation of the documentary "Memphis Muck" -- a freewheeling look at the Muck Sticky Revue with local bands El Dorado and the Ruckus, Taco & da Mofos and Muck Sticky, all performing and talking about their music. Following the 30-minute documentary is the Live From Memphis 2006 Music Video Showcase, featuring 24 of the most amazing music videos of local bands by local directors. Both "Memphis Muck" and the Showcase were in last month's Indie Memphis Film Festival, so come and see what you missed or enjoy them again. Showtime is Thursday, Nov. 30 at 7 pm at the MeDiA Co-op (1000 S. Cooper). It's $3 at the door.
200 Sachen Arma Secreta The Central Standards Chess Club Christopher Reyes Clanky's Nub Evil Army Helen Stellar Jung Shin Lord T. & Eloise Lucero Mr. Sche Muck Sticky Mung Olga Organ Thief Reigning Sound Secret Service Skillet So Serious featuring Tavious Souvenir Satellite Ty Brown The Willowz The Willowz November 20, 2006Makeshift ThanksgivingThat's right, friends. This weekend Makeshift and the Hi-Tone are bringing you 3 NIGHTS OF SNOWGLOBE-related projects. Thusday, Nov. 23 Friday, Nov. 24 Saturday, Nov. 25 Again, all 3 shows are at the Hi-Tone on Poplar. Be there. And have a Happy Thanksgiving November 17, 2006November 16, 2006I'm a Renaissance WomanI shot some photos with Brad Harris over the weekend... Can you believe I get paid to do this shit?
November 15, 2006November 14, 2006Halloween 2006I kind of didn't do Halloween this year. I went to Kris' party at The Warehouse after the Lucero show at The Daisy, but that was about it - by the time Tuesday night rolled around, I was kind of over it and I think I went to bed at 9PM. My only regret was that a bunch of people went out to celebrate Maggie's birthday when she turned 21 at midnight, but sometimes you have to take a break and sleep, and that week was crazy. I even skipped Craig Brewer's party after wrangling an invite after he decided to go list only at the Hitone this year... Anyway, here are a few pics I took down at the party for anyone who is still interested...
Los Angeles Trip Highlight PhotosWhen I checked into my hotel room, I was very surprised to see that someone had left a full prescription bottle of pills on my night stand. I wish there had been a camera in my room for the look on my face and how fast I scurried over to check out what they were. Not that I'm even remotely into pills, but I was highly surprised. When I realized they were from the hotel and M&M's, I was disappointed but still highly amused.
My first trip to In & Out was highly surprising also. For some reason I had it in my head that this was some kind of gourmet burger joint, nothing could be farther from the truth. They call it In & Out because they only serve three things, five if you count fries and drinks. I wasn't that impressed, not only did it take 15 minutes to get a shitty burger, the fries weren't that great either. It's hard to mess up fries.
After we ate we headed over to Capital Records to meet up with Jax and get the tour. We met a lot of cool people, toured the facilities, saw the Diamond Awards, and got to go on the roof, which I guess is a very special provilage since Jax said she had to work at Capital for two years before she got to see it.
The Tenacious D movie premiere party was being held at our hotel Thursday night. Unfortunately, I did not run into Jack Black.
Before hitting the Zune Party, we had a music blogger summit meeting at Cat & Fiddle, which included Justin from Aquarium Drunkard, Dodge from My Old Kentucky Blog, Mark from Music for Robots, Chris from Gorilla vs. Bear, Matt from You Ain't No Picasso, Dave from The Rawking Refuses to Stop, Cesar from Zune Insider, my date Trent from Pink is the New Blog, amd our new friends from Cornerstone. It was fun catching up with the boys, we've all been lucky enough to hang out quite a few times this year and we're all planning to meet up again for SXSW in March.
At the party we got to check out Bitter:Sweet:
Here are the pics I talked about stealing in an earlier post:
Peeps checking out the new Zune:
Which brings me to the point where I confirm that we weren't guided by Microsoft in any way, shape, or form to write about the trip, the party or the Zune. Did I get one? Yes. And I know that I am one of the few, but I am a Microsoft person, have always used WMP, and have never owned an Ipod, so it really wasn't a hard sell. If you've been following along closely, it's easy to see that several of my fellow bloggers didn't care for the Zune and were pretty straight forward about it on their sites. We were told to write what we wanted and that's what we all did. If you're looking for the real deets on the Zune, check out these sites: I know some of the other bloggers are really hung up on looking like a sellout to Microsoft, but in my old age I have the wisdom to know that we all sell out a little bit everyday, it's called business and the only people who don't know that are teenagers and kids in college who think they can do everything their way and still progress. I'm not worried about being a sellout because I am way too lazy to sell out, just talk to all of my close friends I have forgotten to write about! If I am not kissing up to them, you better believe I'm not going out of my way for anyone else! You should see the stack of CD's on my desk that have yet to even be opened or the unopened invites to shows in my inbox, it's overwhelming at times. As soon as blogging starts feeling like a job, I usually take a break until I become inspired again, cause there is nothing worse than a jaded blogger. You know who you are. The Night of the SpitterSo, as I explained here, I got so caught up back in September in getting ready to go to Austin City Limits, that I forgot to post anything about the big Ted Leo show at The Hitone. (I think I did relay a short post about being spit on that night, but that definitely wasn't the highlight of the evening.) Anyway, check out the other post for the pictures of the actual band and a bunch of free music. Here are come of the pictures of the hooligans and shenanigans and The Glass.
November 13, 2006Gayer Than The Gayest Gay I've Seen All GayI just added a new section to my blog, called Gay Stuff - where I can write about how lame people are. It seems me and the bloggers ended up getting Cobrasnaked at the Zune party in LA, and a few other blogs decided to sound off about it being lame. I thought I would post a list of things that are actually lame... 1. Looking at Cobrasnake if you are not on it. I'm so serious about the last one. Why would I not go to LA for a party? Why would I not pose for a silly picture, especially since I met Mark at SXSW and he seems like a genuinely cool guy just trying to do something interesting. I feel weird about taking and posing for pictures sometimes, but then I get over it and realize that in 10 years I will look back and be able to remember what a fun time I had and all the amazing opportunities that fell in my lap. Others will only be able to look back and have to deal with the regret of being such an asshole. They had polaroid cameras set up at the front for everyone to take pics for a bulletin board at the party. At the end of the night I stole all the ones of our group.
ha ha. bite me. Show of the Week...other than the secret Cat Power show Wednesday at The Deli, that isn't really a big secret...
Maggatron PartySo, everyone keeps asking me why I haven't been blogging. Well, it's a multi-part answer but the main one that I am currrently using is that I moved servers and I had no idea all that would entail. Because I had so many pictures in my gallery I decided to move some and put them on Scenestars in order to save space, plus it made more sense for them to be there anyway, but that meant none of my pictures on the blog would be synced up correctly and I would have to go in and manually re-insert them. I have over 1500 posts. So, it's a huge task and I just kind of put it on the backburner to watch 5 seasons of Gilmore Girls. It's like I have so much work to get this project back on track that I really need to devote an entire weekend to it, and as most of my friends know, I just haven't had the energy or frame of mind to get it done. And since I have so much backlog stuff to do, I have let all the current crap pile up too. So, the real answer is, just like everyone else, I'm a lazy sack. Can someone lend me some adderall? Anyway, I still have to go through all of my L.A. pictures and then I will post the ones that are appropriate. Until then, check out the pics from Maggatron's 21st B-day dance party on Saturday night. We decided to have a girl's night out and before the party go to check out a piece Emily did for a gallery show down at Lantana Projects. It was a total scene, which is kind of great and weird at the same time.
When we got to Maggie's at 11, the place was way too packed to take many pictures. I took a lot later on, but then people were really wasted and so I figured they might not want those on the internets. My crew was the last to leave the party and about 10 of us headed to Alex's for a night/morning cap. Then I proceeded to go work all day. I laugh in the face of hangovers.
Ok, that's all I have time for now, but I swear I am going back to daily, so come back soon... November 9, 2006Los Angeles, Zune and TMZWell, I am in LA for the big Zune party tonight. If you have been following along faithfully, you might remember my rant last month after I traveled to Seattle to demo Microsoft's new MP3 player along with many other popular bloggers. I arrived yesterday, checked into the super fancy Hollywood Roosevelt, and met up with my co-horts Dodge, Chris, Cesar and Matt in the bar. Cesar had to go to some work function, so we ate and as soon as I realized that they were charging $11 for a well vodka tonic, I talked the guys into making our way out of the hotel to check out Hollywood. When we stepped outside the front door the first two things we saw were Spiderman and Elvis. Then we were inundated by the music of Ricky Martin. Oh, and Chris ran into a Gorilla - Welcome to Hollyweird.
Obviously, Spiderman and Elvis were just impersonators, but Ricky was real and taping an outside show around the corner for Jimmy Kimmel Live. We walked over to check it out and were told that Snoop Dog was around the corner making a video. Can you guess which we chose to check out?
Afterwards, I called Trent (remember when we partied in Amsterdam in February?)
He was headed to the one year anniversary party for TMZ and so we headed over to meet him to drink free drinks, and gawk over a bunch of C-list celebrities. I have a bunch of pictures, but the guys don't want me to post them!
We ran into my old friend MK from Popbytes, and met Molly from MollyGood and we shook our asses to the the "dj stylings" of Samantha Ronson.
Anyway, when we left they gave us these tickets to get a free hamburger and fries from a stand outside the party. So, we sat on the curb and scarfed some food, then caught a cab back to the hotel where I promptly passed out before 1 AM (Hey, I'm on central time!) I could go on and on about all the shenanigans of last night, but this post is already obnoxious and I am in LA, so I am gonna go have some fun... November 7, 2006Help With Lodging NeededHey Ya'll I swamped this week - I get messages like this all of the time and ususally I can help - but I am about to go to work and when I get home at 10 PM tonight I am probably going to fall face first into my pillow and pass out - so if you can help this person - well - you could offer up your house and make some money I guess... Hi Rachel, Okay, this is going to sound strange but please bear with me. I am a fan of Discovery's Travel Channel show, "5 Takes". Just in case you haven't heard of it, it features 5 travel journalists ("TJs") traveling to another part of the world on a $50/day budget per traveler. (Airfare is covered, but the $50 must cover ground transportation, lodging, food, admissions, Still listenin'? :-) So, while the producers set up most of their itinerary, they also take suggestions from the 5 Takes message boards. People help them find lodging and suggest things for them to do. One of the TJs, Bevis, posted today that he couldn't find any hostels in Memphis and asked if anyone knew of a cheap hotel. I haven't spent much time in Memphis, but I thought I could at least help search online for cheap lodging. How hard could that be? Well, as I quickly learned, VERY HARD. I found out Memphis' largest annual convention (Church of God in Christ) is taking place this weekend and most of the hotels are booked up! So then I did a Google search and somehow your website popped up. I thought it couldn't hurt to ask a Memphis resident for help. I'm wondering if you know of any place they could stay...even someone's house? I'm wondering if there's a chance they can stay in a dorm at the Univ of Memphis or something too. I might call the school tomorrow. The film team stays in a hotel (I'm sure they have reservations already) but the 5 TJs (in their 20s to early 30s) are looking for cheap lodging. They generally pay anywhere from $12-24/person a night for hostel lodging. They need a place for 7 nights from this Saturday Nov. 11 to Saturday Nov. 18. If you have any suggestions or thoughts for them, please let me know. Please check out the 5 Takes website and message boards as well. Sincerely, Leinani November 5, 2006Lyric of the DayThere's a woman on the outside looking inside -SUZANNE VEGA- I have been really busy today reading Walt Whitman and not answering my phone - (sorry guys!) I've been dealing with a a lot of seasonal depression, but I think I got some closure this morning. You know how when there is an issue between you and another person and you try or think you're doing the right thing by not addresssing it? Like, "who the hell am I to tell someone the way that they act is wrong?" Some say, "If you don't like it you should just not let them in your life anymore!?" Well, that was what I thought that I should do. But the probelm is, sometimes, it's hard for peopel to understand that they fucked up unless you tell them. So, I broke down and wrote an email detailing why this person had been extracated from my life - and right or not - I feel 100% better!!! And now I am going to try to move on. I have tons of pics from parties, shows, trips, all kinds of stuff that I have been promising for months that I would post - and I am finally in the right frame of mind to do it - but not today. Today I plan to watch Alias Season 4, go to my parents for dinner and then go to The Gibson to see Rachael Yamagata. Today is a good day! November 3, 2006 |
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