Two things, very short:
One: this house party was the chillest, most awesome party I've been to since living at 700.
Two: the music was too good to be true!, See below! ps, to top off the night, the PHILLIES ARE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES TWO YEARS IN A ROW! YEAH!
The Late Show, or Tonight Show, .. whatever one has Jimmy Fallon on it now, well Incubus just performed Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" which one, isn't even the best Prince song by far, and two, they are promoting this album (seriously) on vinyl. What fat 14 year old Zumiez shoppin' girl has a turntable? Anyway, it's called Monuments and Melodies. It is a greatest hits album. I didn't know they had hits, ever.
Well, I just wikipedia'd Incubus to find out the shitty album title they threw together, and read this:
"On March 11, 2009, Incubus posted an update to their official site detailing the new Greatest Hits album, Monuments and Melodies. The first single for the album is "Black Heart Inertia" expected on April 7, 2009 with the album coming two months later on June 16, 2009. Disc one of the album includes the new singles "Black Heart Inertia" and "Midnight Swim" as well as the top radio hits of the last decade. Then Disc 2 of the album contains songs that have not been released officially on an album, or were rejected demos on prior albums, as well as an acoustic version of "A Certain Shade of Green," and a cover of the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy." The band also announced many confirmed dates for a Summer Amphitheater Tour of the US."
So, they covered the Prince song on the album and that's why they preformed it... thought it was something random, anyway, the best part of the whole thing is that it was announced "....Incubus and the Roots..." well, I don't know about you, but I thought The Roots were pretty good otherwise, but shit, you just lost all cred playing second to Brandon Boyd.
Also, who needs an acoustic version of "A Certain Shade of Green" ???
Lastly, this tour they announced is totally sold out already.
Oh, and there was a fat girl in the background part of the audience gettin DOWN, so I hope that is on youtube tomorrow.
I was seriously intoxicated.
Here are photos from the drive up, to the show itself. More to come from a 35mm camera, this is everything on the digital.
Also, videos up on: www.youtube.com/dissidents
It's 8:12 in the morning. I feel like I've been up for hours, and that's because I HAVE! It's a wonderful feeling waking up with the sun, watching it rise, feeling the earth warm up under my toes. Joanna Newsom is the best person to share my mornings like this with. She caws and squaks about grass and the bourgeoisie, and all I can do is lull and stagnantly sit indian-style on the couch, almost in a trance.
Did you know Steve Albini engineered The Milk-Eyed Mender? Yeah, he did. Mr. Albini is a God.
I almost want to start playing music just so I can save up the thousands of dollars needed to record with AlbiniGod.
On another note, Tom and I got an apartment in the city. 8th & N. Scott. Holla. A block away from St. Anthony's. Really rad. We're having a housewarming June 30. It is a Thursday. You should attend.
Tonight there is a Count von Count show at the Mojo 13. I will attempt to take photos and put them up on here.
I also wanted to mention my extreme disliking for those "1 and 2 and 3 and 4" angsty girl musicians. Be different! Your bands suck. Your jungle beats are off key. Your makeup makes you look like Drag Queens, and not in a good way. Really, you're just about on par with new Green Day, or any Green Day post-insomniac, and that is also not a good thing.
Oh yeah, I've been downloading a lot of music when I wake up early like this. I find torrents related to other torrents, shit I haven't heard of, or things I didn't think I'd be able to download - and my ideas of these things are:
- Red Sparrowes = awesome EitS-ish
- Russian Circles = awesome, same kinda stuff as above.
- Some Joanna Newsom I didn't have before, which is actually kind of boring. Walnuts Whales and Yarn and Glue.
- A comp Devendra Banhart put together for a magazine called The Golden Apples of the Sun, which has some Joanna Newsom of course, Six Organs, Iron & Wine, CocoRosie, and a bunch of other shit I've never heard of. It all sounds just like Devendra Banhart. Ha.
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor discography, It's nice to have.
- Boredoms Super Are = spazzy as shit, but awesome to clean the house to!
- I also downloaded some Om. It rules. Two albums I am having a hard time downloading, but I have one so far, Conference of the Birds, it's two songs, and my mind is blown.
This morning when I woke up, I researched the Isle of Dogs and the Isle of Man. I would like to visit these crazy islands in the UK where kings left dogs to hunt deer but they became wild and then if a zombie outbreak happened, we'd be quarrantined if on the isles! aahhh, so so awesome. I'm ready for the zombies, Are you?
And remember:
If you don't watch Lost, do.
If you feel Lost, take a walk.
If you need a lean, smoke some green.
If you're poor, indulge some more!
So, Friday night was Justin von Count's birthday bash at the Spot. A surprising but friendly amount of people showed up and Tom got a bunch of cinnamon pizzas, which Todd seemed to seriously enjoy, he swears by the cinnamon marinara, I, on the other hand, thought it was whack dessert style pizza with mozzarella cheese... and well.. that's just weird...oh, and regular beers, 90+ of them. I got seriously intoxicated before taking Justin's bottle of h2o and re-hydrating myself for the last two bands. This I believe to be a mistake now because during the Ape! set someone did something with cake besides politely eat a slice. There is now a carpet mashed with cake at the Spot, thanks to the cake food fight that then unraveled. You can see in some pictures the white cake and yummy frostings in the carpet! Anyway.
Cough is from Richmond. They play great, brutal, slow music. I suggest you listen to them if you enjoy Sleep. Not the act, because that is the last thing either band makes me feel like doing.
Unfortunately, I could only stand to listen to two songs before my chest felt like it was collapsing inside of itself, NOT because I don't like them, I do. I have ther shit on my iPod, man. I listen to it, but not live, unless I was at least.... 40,000 feet away. They then stayed at our house for the evening after the show.
That was quite a night. Justin's Barfday.
Saturday night we went to the Depot. It is in York, PA, which is two fucking long ass hours away from us. One cool thing though is you pass Dutch Wonderland, and there's like putt-putt and water slides and all kinds of super shit for about a half of a mile on the side of the highway, weird, but I think the next Depot show - we gotta go up early and go to Dutch Wonderland, and maybe Miller's smorgishbord (i don't know how to spell that?)
So, for the show; CvC played a great set, and Backwoods Payback fuckin' blows my mind and puts me in a time machine every time I see them, so so good!
What do you get from a beautiful, dramatic eight minute long song from Explosions in the Sky?
They have been called "post-rock for the masses," but I do not think this is the case. I can think of more people who hate bands like EitS, Godspeed, and Mogwai. Those who complain about ambient noise, jamming, and shit, anything that I find very groovin and excellent. Honestly, Pandora has opened my eyeballs to not only Explosions in the Sky, but a bunch of other really awesome bands, for example: A Burning Water and Russian Circles. I don't know anything about these bands, but they all sound very similar, and whether it is raining and dreary outside or sun soakenly gorgeous outside, I think THIS is the perfect kinda music to listen to.
Still don't ever want to go to one of these shows, though. I may fall asleep or lose my balance from bobbing and ebbing to the sweet melodies.
So my boo, Tom, and I have been looking for a new house. Our lease is up August 1, which also seems to be the shittiest time possible to be looking for a place, judging by our grueling effort after 700 shut its doors, we were stuck with this shit hole in the wall where we currently reside.
Now, I know I am basing my opinion here on The News Journal and Craigslist, but! I am so pissed off over the fact that Wilmington does not want my money. Wilmington does not want to rent me a house unless I am a section 8 applicant, or I have $1,000 to spend on a fuckin' one-bedroom apartment.
This unsatisfying battle has been going on for months. If you have any free time, go give the Delaware apartments and housing section of craigslist a good once-over.. cause that's all you'll need to realize everything for rent in Delaware is total shit.
Unfortunately, because we are not "that" improvised that we don't qualify for section 8, because I, personally, make $300 too much money a year to qualify as uh, poor? "Below the poverty level" is the P.C. way of saying it, I guess.
The government says this is what section 8 is:
"The Section 8 Rental Voucher Program increases affordable housing choices for very low-income households by allowing families to choose privately owned rental housing. The public housing authority (PHA) generally pays the landlord the difference between 30 percent of household income and the PHA-determined payment standard-about 80 to 100 percent of the fair market rent (FMR). The rent must be reasonable. The household may choose a unit with a higher rent than the FMR and pay the landlord the difference or choose a lower cost unit and keep the difference."
So, I just tried to call about 5-8 numbers about Section 8 and government substidized housing. No one picked up the phone, at any of the places except one. She told me there is a 3-4 year waiting list for Section 8.
My question is. What are those people supposed to do until then? Live on the streets? Live with friends or family?
Well, I only have the first option available to me. What about people like me who work 40 hours a week just to make ends meet but can barely grocery shop after all their bills are paid?
It is almost sickening to think about how the government, both federal and local, treat their people.
So, the plan: Look for places to rent in Philly.
I'm sorry Wilmington, my wonderful city, I may have to abandon you for a beat, hipshit-filled city where I feel closer to Newark than I feel to home.
If anyone has any leads on a ONE/TWO bedroom HOUSE with a BASEMENT and neighbors willing to let us make noise, have shows, etc.. LET US KNOW. We can only pay like $700-$750 a month if it's just me and Tom.
If we have a roomate we can pay like $900, with two roomates, $1200.
I am sad. I miss 700. I miss the feeling of being home, not just in a house.
I am a Wilmington Warrior (or, better, Wastoid) FO'EVA.
I wanted to post some ranting and raving about my extreme hatred for the overdone, unwanted, and sleezy fashion of late. Parties aren't social gatherings, but critiquing ceremonies on who's got cuter shoes and which dude is wearing the tightest black skinny jeans. I found this amazing article while reading my favorite magazine, Adbusters. I suggest you read it, and be both disappointed in society, and laugh wholeheartedly over the tragic "fall of western civilization."
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Also, another love/hate. The truth, check this silly site out:
http://forum.grasscity.com/apprentice-tokers/320639-ten-different-types-pot-dealers-young-new-tokers.html
Lately, I've been dissing the iPod left and right. At work, I've been listening to Pandora (see last post), and in my car, I'm usually listening to NPR.
Every morning there is something on there that totally keeps my attention, whether it is about politics, or money issues, two things I normally could care less about. The stories are interesting, intelligent, and very moderately opinionated. So, this morning there is a story about anger. I want to share it with anyone and everyone because it was so true and awesome, and shit... going out and smashing anything from plates to an Urn some asshole who pissed you off cherished dearly. Anyway, read this story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102344514
Also, totally unrelated, but check this out too.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102371382
