I'm in for the new gmail mix as well.
Din. Jr. is playing the big Lollapalooza event in Chicago this summer. Feh. I'm not doing it! Hear me now - even though it's chance to see a Digable Planets reunion (which I have been waiting for 4evah!!1! and the Pixies), my days of spending $85 on festivals is over.
Joyous news = Bloodshot's catalog is now available on emusic. Erin! Boucher! Other emusic users! Go download some Split Lip Rayfield (and Trailer Bride, and Meat Purveyors and Bobby Bare Jr. and Devil in a Woodpile) pronto! Or, you know, don't. Chicagoistas - SLR is playing the Double Door on 6/10 and the Empty Bottle on 6/11. I'll be going to the DD show and I'll be that girl with Way Too Much Kansas Pride.
ION, I'm changing my tag to a Serenity trailer line in hopes that only four or five other folks have chosen the same line.
I'm in for the new mix too if there's room.
I'm going to pass on this round.
If anyone's interested, here are my reviews of the two Seattle U2 shows:
First show
Second show
my days of spending $85 on festivals is over.
I hear ya, but then SXSW comes along...
Alicia, your descriptions really make me want to see them again, even though the one U2 concert I saw was a huge disappointment.
Sue, what concert was that?
It's was the second time around on the Zoo TV tour, in Vancouver. Unfortunately I got them when they were dripping in irony.
Heh. I actually liked them dripping in irony. I saw them in Madison, WI on the Zoo TV tour, but oddly enough, I hardly remember the show at all.
But when I go back and watch the concert videos from that tour, I LOVE it. The Zoo Sydney video is incredible.
Popmart was weird and their hearts didn't seem to be in it, and I think they knew they had to get back to basics with the Elevation tour. This one is pretty similar to that tour in terms of "back to basics," but it's got some cool light stuff.
Neil Gaiman seems to enjoy an interesting life. I need more life like this:
This morning I got up very early and went off to spend the morning in a cafe in Notting Hill with Damon and Jamie, talking Gorillaz, and the nature of story, and why an imaginary cartoon band can have more integrity than some flesh and blood ones, and all that sort of stuff (all while having our photo taken). Enormously pleasant -- I'd not met Damon before, and hadn't seen Jamie since we went to Berlin for the (first? second?) anniversary of the coming down of the Berlin Wall, about fifteen years ago.