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Re: “Bar Carlo”
This place is great! I was so excited to have a breakfast place open in my neighborhood that serves good coffee and food. I have been there many times since they opened and have never been disappointed.
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Re: “Win Tickets to Built to Spill!”
I once hitchhiked from Ketchum, Idaho to Boise to see BTS play a free show on Earth Day in 1995. Was it the fact that I had to hitchhike scary? No!, it was that after Built to Spill played, a large group of the crowd formed a circle and held hands and sang something to the effect of "the earth is one of us, worship her and care for her", over and over. Drum circles and everything. For the battle of my post show mood, the negating power of their chanting was no match against the awesomeness of seeing my first Built to Spill show.
On a side note, I used to tape a lot of concerts back in the day. In late August 1997 at Champoeg State Park, there was a show with Elliott Smith/Quasi, Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, Sneaker Pimps, and Beck, all for the whopping sum of $19. Right after Built to Spill finished and was starting to leave the stage, I had just about hit the stop button on my deck when this kid comes sprinting up next to me, flailing his arms and screaming, "SHIT SHIT, dammit! I missed them, fuck!, shit, dammit!!" The mics picked up his ranting and it was a funny ending to the tape.
Any show is fine.
Re: “Well, Fuck. Cort and Fatboy Just Got Fired.”
Yeah, I'm with Andy, since those internet pipes with their magical radio stations playing all kinds of songs I had never heard before came along (props to the archives at wfmu.org), I don't play the radio much anymore. Sucks that there might have actually been something worth listening to though and now it is gone.
Re: “Well, That Was Close.”
There are some other angles here. Boy they have a lot of cameras! Apparently the brakes on the bus had failed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-GMnLFvjBM
http://tinyurl.com/whoahhhhhh
Re: “Say Goodbye to Starfucker. Say Hello to PYRAMID!”
Myspace says there is a Joey Division too, sheesh! At this rate, maybe "sadfnkcenn33" isn't being used by someone for a band name.
Side note, there is a band of kids in the Philippines going by "Red Fang" and they sure suffer a lot of abuse for it in their youtube comments, my favorite:
nko138:
"Definitely change your name. The real Red Fang is a monster of beards and beer. They will annihilate this bullshit. "
Re: “Say Goodbye to Starfucker. Say Hello to PYRAMID!”
The only uncharted case territory I can think of is to borrow from the computer programming world and use camelCase if your band has more than one word:
theFuckingChamps
sonicYouth
Re: “Say Goodbye to Starfucker. Say Hello to PYRAMID!”
The Fucking Champs have to be my favorite "Fucking" band.
Anyway, Pyramid, not that that is a bad name at all, but it seems at least one other band is using it, plus it has been used a lot in the past from looking at allmusic.com.
http://www.myspace.com/pyramid
http://www.sidewalkexplosion.com/downloads…
There is also a "The Pyramids" too. Anyone know the depths of trademark law? Like, is it legal to have a band called "The Sonic Youths" or "The Sonic Youth"
Re: “Good Morning, (Crashes Allegedly Caused by Oral Sex in Australia) News!”
Oh man!, reading The Northern Territory News was one of my favorite memories of Australia. I looked forward to arriving at a roadhouse, having a burger and beer, and catching up with the news (or lack thereof) in the Northern Territory. Where else can you learn about what the "hoons" have been up to? (which if you decide to bicycle in Australia, the most dangerous thing you will encounter is not snakes, crocodiles, deserts, or jelly fish...it is hoons by a long shot)
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/10/1…
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