Where else can you sit in a big, shiny coffeeshop full of glossy Formica kitchen tables, watching the world come alive through a glass garage door, while the music shifts from Morphine to Rod Stewart?
Seattle, my friends.
She also allows for run-on sentences. In case you were curious.
SHORT PANTS (romance optional):
WHIP IT OUT (calendars, I mean):
THE GNEWS:
Greg Vandy's set last Wednesday about Northwest garage rock from the sixties was just stupid good. I stayed home, parked it in front of the speakers, and soaked it all up. Available in the streaming archives of KEXP, I believe it started either at 6 or 7.
The Notwist at Neumo's last week was a great show, my surprise of the week for sure. I didn't know they were from another country and everything... how a band can barely speak enough English (literally going, "Hello? This is Notwist? Yes?" as they started) to talk to the crowd, but then have lyrics like oh, we'll just blame it on the moonlight and the lamppost or whatever, is beyond me. I didn't shoot, but Janet got a poster. I also lost my car, but then I found it.
And, last but not least, I may be an actual new girl (well, an imaginary new girl) on a more official level - but I'll wait to post about that until there's links. Hyperlinks, not like, sausage or anything.
Ew. Anyway. There's lots more, but I've got to get back to work. Go read about the porn fest in this week's Stranger.
Till next Monday, with a flourish and a blow-up doll,
VIVA
Seattle, my friends.
She also allows for run-on sentences. In case you were curious.
SHORT PANTS (romance optional):
- 10/27: Pablo Trucker, Jack Wilson & the Wife Stealers, Molly Rose. My first foray to the Sunset. In Ballard. Of all places. $6, 9:00
- 10/27: The apple project, photobooth. Postponed due to a lack of funding, but I might be able to scrape up some quarters by the end of the day. Don't stop believin'.
- 10/28: Lady Dottie & the Diamonds: KEXP at noon, Sonic Boom (Ballard, FREE) at 6, and the Funhouse that night. I heard them doing "Have Love, Will Travel" and was immediately sold. Enough to go to Sonic Boom, at the very least, if I can't make the in-studio.
- 10/28 Deb recommends: Black Angels, Showbox, $22, and Frightened Rabbit, Chop Suey, $10. Frightened Rabbit is also doing a KEXP members-only performance at the Triple Door earlier that day, for high rollers and their +1s.
- 10/29: Lykke Li: Sonic Boom (Capitol Hill, FREE) at 7, and later that night at Neumo's for $15. Ditto, on being sold enough to go see her for free. Down the street from my house. Because I live here. OMG.
- 10/29 Schedule pending, I'll head from Sonic Boom straight out to the Tractor, for Blind Pilot. (They're opening for Great American opening for See Me River.) Another $6, 9:00.
- 10/30: My 90 day anniversary in Seattle, most likely being celebrated shooting some promo theater shots. I could tell you where and when, but then I'd have to kill you. You'll just have to wait for the photoessay. (In the meantime, you could go see Shudder to Think at the Showbox for $20.)
- 10/31: Happy Halloween! I'll be celebrating the day of the dead with week two of the "Awesome" cycle, apparently a funeral of sorts. ACT, $15, 8:00. $10 with any previous ticket stub. Also, the Sonics are playing at the Paramount, which apparently is a BFD.
- 11/1: Repeats of "Awesome" at 8:00 and 10:30, or, if you prefer hot GLBT (mostly G) pick-your-acronym dirtier-than-Julia's burlesque, you can check out Bacon Strip at Rebar, $7, 10 pm. Don't ask me how I know about that.
WHIP IT OUT (calendars, I mean):
- The Rock Bible Tour, Henry Owings. Discuss. @ Sonic Boom (Capitol Hill), 11/16, 3 pm
- Tom Brosseau @ the Triple Door, 11/20
- Death Cab's re-release of something about airplanes (with live goodness and liner notes by Sean Nelson) @ Sonic Boom (and then in our living room), 11/25
- Elliott Brood @ the Tractor, 12/3
THE GNEWS:
Greg Vandy's set last Wednesday about Northwest garage rock from the sixties was just stupid good. I stayed home, parked it in front of the speakers, and soaked it all up. Available in the streaming archives of KEXP, I believe it started either at 6 or 7.
The Notwist at Neumo's last week was a great show, my surprise of the week for sure. I didn't know they were from another country and everything... how a band can barely speak enough English (literally going, "Hello? This is Notwist? Yes?" as they started) to talk to the crowd, but then have lyrics like oh, we'll just blame it on the moonlight and the lamppost or whatever, is beyond me. I didn't shoot, but Janet got a poster. I also lost my car, but then I found it.
And, last but not least, I may be an actual new girl (well, an imaginary new girl) on a more official level - but I'll wait to post about that until there's links. Hyperlinks, not like, sausage or anything.
Ew. Anyway. There's lots more, but I've got to get back to work. Go read about the porn fest in this week's Stranger.
Till next Monday, with a flourish and a blow-up doll,
VIVA
