Review coming at a time to be determined.
Pictures From Arctic Monkeys HoB
Arctic Monkeys H & E
Hopes: I hope they open with hey hey, we’re the Monkees… oh wait, wrong Monkeys lol. I hope the British boys play all of my favorite tracks of course, most of which appear on Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not. My favorite AM number is “Riot Van,” so I strongly wish they perform this, even though it is highly unlikely. “Teddy Picker,” “Secret Door,” and “Cornerstone,” would be more than nice as well. Lastly, I want this to be one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen, over an hour of rockin rolling, and placed in my top 10.
Expectations: I expect that they will play “The View From the Afternoon,” “I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor,” and maybe one other off Whatever… I anticipate that they will play “Fluorescent Adolescent” and a few other tracks from Favourite Worst Nightmare. Most of the songs will come from their latest release, Humbug/. They will play for about an hour and it will be a great show in my top 15.
Chris
Fantano Needle Drops Invisible Girl
My thoughts exactly. A solid 9 is spot on.
Chris
Tommorow!
Set List From Friday Night @ Terminal 5 In NY!
1. The Jeweller’s Hands – Humbug
2. Brianstorm – FWN
3. This House is A Circus – FWN
4. Still Take You Home – FWN
5. Potion Approaching – Humbug
6. Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cover)
7. My Propeller – Humbug
8. Crying Lightning – Humbug
9. Sketchead – Humbug B-Side
10. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – WPS
11. The View From The Afternoon – WPS
12. Cornerstone – Humbug
13. If You Were There, Beware – FWN
14. Pretty Visitors – Humbug
15. Do Me a Favour – FWN
16. Fluorescent Adolescent / Last Christmas – FWN
Encore:
17. Secret Door – Humbug
18. 505 – FWN
$35 Helders doesn’t sing “Last Christmas” tommorow night. Good shit, Alex!
Porno Music Video
First, Girls experimented with gay pornography in their video for “Lust for Life.”
Now, Massive Attack has gone the porno route with a 1973 film featuring commentary from the actress (Georgina Spelvin, now about eighty years old) who starred in it.
Fine. Here’s the link for said nude art (can under-18s watch it since it is a music video?)”Paradise Circle”: http://special.the-raft.com/massiveattackdvd/paradisecircus_full.swf
Damn, We’re Screwed
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year’s Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.The sprawling legislation would give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to oversee consumer banking transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that have escaped the oversight of regulators.
The vote was a party-line 223-202. No Republicans voted for the bill; 27 Democrats voted against it.
The Boston Globe said in their article that it would “crack down on the types of Wall Street practices that caused last year’s economic meltdown.” You (Michael Kranish), my friend, are retarded. This legislation gives more power to the Federal Reserve, you know the institution that actually caused the mess. Oh and just to vent some more, Rep. John Tierney (Democrat – District 6) voted in favor of it. Stooge.
MY Top Songs of 2009
1) Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes
2) The Almighty Defenders- Cone of Light
3) Deerhunter- Disappearing Ink
4) Jay Reatard- Rotten Mind
5) King Khan & BBQ Show- Anala
6) Girls- Lust For Life
7) Uninhabitable Mansions- Speed Is Deceiving
8) Box Elders- Atlantis
9) Black Lips- I’ll Be With You
10) Strange Boys- Woe Is You and Me
11) Waaves- So Bored
12) Mika Miko- I Got A Lot (New New New)
13) No Age- You’re A Target
14) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Come Saturday
15) Bobby Ubangi- Greasers’ Lament
16) Arctic Monkeys- Secret Door
17) Those Darlins- Red Light Love
18) Sunset Rubdown- Idiot Heart
19) Sonic Youth- What We Know
20) Vivian Girls- Before I Start to Cry
Chris
Top 5 Songs of 2009
Times Square Hustler Killed
New York Post
Bullets flew over Broadway yesterday, sending a crush of Times Square tourists and office workers “running for their lives” as cops shot and killed a MAC 10-toting thug.The broad-daylight gunfire between the CD-hawking scam artist and anti-crime cops in an enclosed passenger-drop-off area at the Marriott Marquis sent shots crashing through store windows and people scrambling for cover.
“The police officers were ducking and diving, trying to get out of the way,” said John Grisewood, 60, of London, who stood about 10 to 15 feet from the fusillade.
I have a connection to these guys. I was scammed by them in July 2007 when I was walking Times Square alone. First, they asked me if I wanted to buy a CD. Eh, yeah, I could have just kept walking, but I bought into it. I gave them $10 for that and they signed their names. That wasn’t all though. One of them saw that I had a lot more $$$ in my wallet. One guy basically grabbed an additional $20 out of my wallet in exchange for two t-shirts and a hat, both of which I really didn’t want. If these aren’t the same people, I’d be surprised:
Cops said he was one of a group of hustlers who were working a scam in which they would approach tourists, ask them their names, then write the names on the CDs and demand $10.
Jay Attacked @ Austin Gig
Jay Reatard’s Publicist:
“Jay was attacked, totally unprovoked, by two different people, both of whom were later arrested. One guy bolted onstage and came swinging at Jay, but security took him away pretty quickly. Soon after (the band hadn’t stopped playing, by the way), another guy sprinted onstage and hit Jay. Unlike the first guy, Jay didn’t even see this guy coming. So Jay defended himself with the mic stand until security took that guy away, too. Jay is safe and unhurt, and the cops were there for about an hour afterwards. The two guys were arrested, but I’m not sure exactly what the formal charges were or where they are now.”
Creeps.
