5 posts tagged “updates”
Some observations, musings, and notes from this week and more in my musical alliances:
- The Killers were at the NSSN pre-party (of which Cold War Kids dominated), just wandering around to watch the show. Dude Ronnie, what happened to your hair?! Holy receding hairline Batman...
- Saw Brandon Flowers use the bathroom upstairs in the backstage area. I didn't actually see him pee or anything, but watching a rock star go in and out of a bathroom like a regular person is definitely funny. (Plus, everyone I talked to about NSSN all agreed on one thing: homeboy somehow got hot in between '06 and '08 and it showed. Holy tight pants.)
- I got to witness our band send-off when they take stage at Mezzanine; the members line up on the stairs backing the curtains and then shuffle on stage. It was really neat to see both sides of the curtain from where I was standing backstage.
- NSSN: Ben Gibbard, what the fuck?! He lost about a good 70 pounds (picture from RS @ Coachella) and sorta looked like Nikolai from the Strokes from where we were sitting. He's just so...lean now. It was a little odd. As Becca so eloquently put it, "Manerexic!" We both didn't recognize him when he popped up on stage, but Death Cab totally ruled last night. Doing acoustic "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" was a ballsy move at a arena radio show, but it was spot on. And "Cath," of course, was fucking beautiful live. I totally get shattered every time I hear that song (which was playing in this bar Danielle and I went to on Tuesday, bonus points Pilsner Inn).
- Chris Walla also looked like Mister Rogers' son with a orange sweater vest, white collared long sleeved shirt, and tight slack combo last night.
- Hot dude from Music for Animals at the local band competion - come to Mexico with us!!
- I did my end of year lists for The Tripwire on Monday: best albums, singles, videos, headlines, and shows of 2008. We should be running them sometime next week I think. We also had to do a best of 1998 records list, so I obviously employed Wendy to help me out. We sat over sushi in Fremont and lamented how much we used to be into Destiny's Child and Goo Goo Dolls...
- Russell from Bloc Party: why do I still have a stupid crush on you!? Grr...
- Drummer from Franz Ferdinand did our NSSN afterparty at popscene and was super wasted, getting on the mic every so often to whoop to his DJ selections and yell. It was highly amusing.
- Related: Alex Kapranos, still as beautiful as ever! I brushed against him last night while at pop and was struck by his beauty. Seriously, really pretty.
- Speaking of hotness, we got the new glossy flyers for the Scissors For Lefty New Year's Day show, and husband looks gorgeous! I'm bummed Kristin and I won't be here for it, but, you know, we're kinda gonna be in the U.K...
- Tonight I am seeing Alanis Morrissette. Is it weird to be oddly excited about that?
- I realized the other day I have seen wallpaper. nine times this year, the last being for the pop/Mezz Orphan's Ball rigt before Thanksgiving...this is a problem...
Who am I kidding, I still love this video:
All my clips to come next week, now I must somehow pull my brain off the floor and function...fucking three hours of sleep...
But right now my blog head banner and my chest tattoo match. And I'm sort of happy about it. Oh, man...
Did a slight overhaul in the site design for the bloggy - new year, new layout, I reckoned. Here's to more shenanigans and beer in 2008.
So many things happened (or, I found out about) while I was gone!! Shit...
- Chris Cornell, again solo - and playing July 10 at the Warfield. First rock'n'roll crush, do I go see you?
- While doing my concert calendar for professional and personal purposes, I found a listing for a band at the Make-Out Room called Eggplant Casino and all of a sudden, it made sense: SFist music kid and fellow Vox'er Krissy was right about the whole naming-your-band thing. (For the record, I tried finding them and no MySpace results heeded anything - their band website doesn't have audio either).
- Too many concerts coming up, with a number of good shows all on the same day: Hot Chip or Pipettes? Gwen Stefani, Roger Waters, The Horrors, or Darren Hayes (um, of Savage Garden fame)? Nelly Furtado or Skinny Puppy? Incubus or Vanilla Ice? Damn my crazy music tastes.
- October is a little far away to be thinking of a show, but with the Cure, BRMC, and my other boyfriend in AFI playing...I'm down.
- I'm not sure what this is?? Tom Waits Peep Show?? Confused...
- Okay, a little sad I missed Jordan Knight play...a club prom...shut it...
- And for a laugh: my friend Wendy drove me to San Jose the day I flew out on a trip so I could meet up with my parents - I had just walked the Golden Gate Bridge with my best friend Lissa and I told Wendy I couldn't stop laughing because all I could think about was this video:
Points for the sweet locations in North Beach (specifically the Washington Square church and the bus stops) - whoever was the cinematographer had a good eye.
...except not. It's so mothereffing hot in the City today, thank your local global warming for it.
Things that have interested me this week:
- Jason Schwartman's brother Robert (Carmine) doing a lip-sync to his bro's new song "Nighttiming." I was like, super in love with Robert when I was 17 and wanted to be Anne Hathaway's character in "The Princess Diaries" so I could have (what I thought was) an indie rock boyfriend...those were the days...
- I am the first to admit that rap sometimes doesn't do anything to help its case...that Akon song "I Want To Fuck You," which I am ashamed to like, really isn't the best thing to be promoting. Now that he's in trouble for simulating sex with a 15 year-old - daughter of a priest, mind you - it makes me wonder whether or not I should be caring about musicans' activities off and on stage, and just judge based on the music. Right?
- I WANT TO BE IN KINDERGARTEN CLASS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How much does that rule?!
- Nelly Furtado in my hood June 21st...stoked but kinda disappointed she's not gonna support JT in his fall tour, so sad...
- The house Johnny Cash lived in with June, wrote many songs in, and was the place they filmed "Hurt" at burned down. This is a bit of old news, but so sad nonetheless. "It did seem like it was the Good Lord's way to let it go, though..."
- How can Genesis even tour without Peter Gabriel?? It's like this whole Queen thing without Freddie Mercury - it just seems so wrong and off and almost dishonest.
- But to end my diatribe on a good note...Keith Richards will continually be crazy and I love him for it. Dear Keith: please just legally adopt Johnny Depp, and all will be good in the world.
I need some coffee. Before I get my chai on, here is what my week has been like:
having one of the best weeks ever. Shoes getting destroyed a minor setback.
Speaking of which and sort of related, never ended up meeting with Dude 1 for discussions. Tres sad.
