my days of spending $85 on festivals is over.
I hear ya, but then SXSW comes along...
I'm just trying to tell you that we have nothing in common besides both of us liking your penis.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Apr 27, 2005 6:46:30 am PDT #8379 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Sue - Apr 27, 2005 7:05:32 am PDT #8380 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Alicia, your descriptions really make me want to see them again, even though the one U2 concert I saw was a huge disappointment.
Gandalfe - Apr 27, 2005 7:05:39 am PDT #8381 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Tina and Lisa are in.
Alicia K - Apr 27, 2005 7:18:41 am PDT #8382 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Sue, what concert was that?
Sue - Apr 27, 2005 7:28:16 am PDT #8383 of 10003
hip deep in pie
It's was the second time around on the Zoo TV tour, in Vancouver. Unfortunately I got them when they were dripping in irony.
Alicia K - Apr 27, 2005 7:30:16 am PDT #8384 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
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.
DavidS - Apr 27, 2005 1:12:21 pm PDT #8385 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2005 4:56:44 pm PDT #8386 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
why an imaginary cartoon band can have more integrity than some flesh and blood ones,
This reminded me -- last night I was talking with some people about "embarassing" music we like, and I said something about Milli Vanilli being awesome, and my friend said, "They weren't even REAL!" But guess what? The music is still real.
Fred Pete - Apr 28, 2005 3:55:15 am PDT #8387 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Another Milli Vanilli fan?
I thought the music was great fun, cotton-candy pop. And, well, I didn't see their videos all that much.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 28, 2005 4:00:23 am PDT #8388 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I listened to the new New Order disc last night, Waiting for the Siren's Call. I was intending it to be crash music, because even Substance works as crash music for me.
No such luck - it was too astonishingly good. Just one track after another of really compelling stuff. Unmistakebly New Order (except for the penultimate track on the US disc, "Working Overtime", which is a straight up rock song - and also really good) and except for one or two less-than-fully-compelling tracks (most noticeably, the title track), there's not a bad song on it, and at least three or four (including the rocker) that I'd throw on a mix in a nano-second.
I'm almost afraid to listen to it again, since I've had some albums that I thought were amazing not hold up under repeat listening, but I don't think that's going to happen with this.
I need to pull out their last album, Get Ready, which I also thought was stellar (it stayed in my CD player for a couple of months without being switched out for anything else) and see how it compares.
In short, yeah, I really, really liked it.