NY-istas, are there good sites for finding out what live music is playing in NYC?
I usually check the Voice, but I find the print version much more useful than the website... which doesn't really help you. Sorry. The great thing about New York is also the terrible thing about it: it's FULL of great, cool stuff. Even if you were independently wealthy and could devote yourself full time to going to shows w/o worrying about cost you'd still miss a ton of stuff that shouldn't be missed. And that's not even throwing in competing art forms (film, theater, dance, museums). It's a better problem to have than having a dearth of the arts, but it is frustrating, especially when time and money are issues, as they are for most of us.
If I hadn't already used "Tattoo" for the Buffistamix it would be high on my list. I think I proposed "Love Songs, Nothing but Love Songs" for a LITG sidebar consisting of unusual love songs (to tatoos, old refrigerators, marijuana, and I don't remember what else). Sooo many choices.
Thanks to all for the congrats. Send good marriage~ma to my fianceé as she will need it.
Congrats to Mr. Boucher, and also to the future Mrs. Boucher, who obviously knows a good thing when she sees it. :-)
And Jim, I had a 10-lb baby with no problems and no drugs, so you can use that to balance out the scary stories labor/delivery stories that people like to stop you with. What is it about having a baby that turns people into the Ancient Mariner?
And I was going to use the Go-Betweens for my unconventional love song but now I'm not so sure. Which locution I cannot think of without thinking of the recent New Scientist Feedback column where the man wrote in to say he used to think he was indecisive but now he's not so sure.
What is it about having a baby that turns people into the Ancient Mariner?
The tiny albatross around our necks for the next 18 years. Ah, I kid. I kid because I love.
And I was going to use the Go-Betweens for my unconventional love song but now I'm not so sure.
Which one? Or should I wait until you make up your mind?
Can we have no more scary delivery stories until further notice?
Absolutely. Sorry, Jim. But the good news is modern medicine filled with everyday miracles and happy endings.
May the arrival of the Jim and Ms. Jim's offspring be a smooth and easy process, absolutely textbook with thoroughly mundane anecdotes.
Congratulations! Welcome to the realm of sleep deprivation.
The further good news is that obviously people have kids fairly easily and often -- look how many of us there are!
I was born with the cord wrapped around my neck, and I'm perfectly fine.
I was born with the cord wrapped around my neck, and I'm perfectly fine.
Heh.
Congrats to Joe, Soon-to-be Mrs. Joe and much smooth-and-easy-labor-ma to Jim and Mrs. Jim.
I’m still digesting both, but I want to point out that the Go-Betweens are going to play the US for the first time since 1989 in June. NYC, Chapel Hill, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and LA, but (why o why, lord?) nowhere within a day's drive of me.
As noted, they are coming to Chicago, but the thing I have quickly realized about this place is that I just can't go to every show I want to. It sucks! I currently have tickets to the Mountain Goats, Rilo Kiley (meep!) and Spoon (and there are a few minor pay-at-the-door type of things in between). But that meant NOT buying tickets to any of this week's Wilco shows (they are doing four nights in a row). Or the Go-Betweens or a jillion other things....I know, poor me, right?
I'm mostly loving the new Mountain Goats CD,
The Sunset Tree.
It's better than the last one
(We Shall All Be Healed)
I think, but not better than the one before that
(Tallahassee).
I also downloaded
Wreck Your Life
based on Michele's rec. I'm liking it. I loooove that emusic has Bloodshot's catalog avail. Have I mentioned that?
Hey tina, have you been to The Hideout to see Kelly Hogan and The Wooden Leg yet?
