The Phrase of the Week
03/20/2006
Phrase of the week: Rock N’ Roll Lifestyle.
Definition: Where Holly and I spent most of the week of SXSW without wristbands hereby being denied entrance to 99% of the shows- but still seeing at least one band a night Tuesday thru Friday (with a bit on Saturday), staying up late and still managing to get to work the next day.
Yeah- how about them apples? The Birthday Massacre on Tuesday (feels like a million years ago), Tokyo Rose on Wednesday (feels like a thousand years ago), Echo & The Bunnymen on Thursday (feels like a hundred years ago), St. Patrick’s Day gallivanting on Friday and tarot card reading on Saturday. Sunday it was laundry day. And silent and gray…
For St. Patrick’s Day we went around downtown- saw a free show from a band called Need For Fire- where the band was all dressed up in kilts (I was going to wear mine but on me- they just look like skirts) and the electric guitars were accompanied by Irish Fiddles and a Bagpipe. Bagpipe Rock Rules! The show actually wasn’t free, you had to pay a $10.00 cover (the event wasn’t part of SXSW) to get into a beer tent. Holly & and I watched the show from the sidelines and got a pretty good view of the band. Pretty good gig for free and definitely matched the day.
The rest of the night, we just people watched and walked around. I made the mistake of eating a slice of pizza which sat in my stomach and got me tired and sleepy. Good pizza, though.
WEEKEND MOVIES! (Because I’m too wussy for the Rock N’ Roll Lifestyle and I needed to just kick back at home and be a potato)
Free Enterprise: Okay movie- tries too hard at times and works best as time capsule of the late nineties. Love the scene at the Northridge Golden Apple store- down the street from where I used to live and where I spent many an hour and many a dollar. That mural was painted over about a year ago and pissed me off when they did. It was an awesome landmark and I miss it. 3 Stars.
Happy Potter & the Goblet of Fire: The first movie in the franchise that I like. (I’ve read all but the 5th book, which I did start but got bored reading…maybe I’ll continue it later) I hated the first two movies and the third one was visually impressive but the story tried to do too much and just screwed the pacing. Sometimes, it’s all about the pacing. This one had much more liberty with the story as compared to the source material. It was still faithful to the book and I just loved that the confrontation between the title character and his nemesis retained the intensity from when I read it. 5 Stars.
Sleeper Cell Episodes 1-4: The Northridge Fashion Center gets attacked again! Who knew that mall was such a target? Another fine reminder of home. A ‘super-villain’ point of view story and different from all the spy/terrorist shows all over the place nowadays- want to see the rest of the series, the first four episodes were pretty cool. 4 Stars.
PS: some of the line up for the Mera Luna Festival in Germany:
APOPTYGMA BERZERK , BAUHAUS , CLAN OF XYMOX , DIE KRUPPS, FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY , FUNKER VOGT, MINISTRY , NITZER EBB, THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE (amongst others)
If anyone wants to send Holly and myself there- we’d be grateful. If you even ever see just two of the bands listed on the same show stateside, consider yourself lucky. That’s a bad ass lineup right there.
And then here’s some people playing at the Wave Gothik in June:
Clan of Xymox
Decoded Feedback
Haujobb
Heaven 17 (!)
Lydia Lunch
Nitzer Ebb
Nosferatu
The Legendary Pink Dots
MODCOM-a new project from Ronan Harris that will make its debut at this year’s Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig. The music from this one-man project uses analog modular synthesizers and analog sequencers for live sound generation. Sequences and sounds are patched, manipulated, effected, re-patched and mixed live. This kind of performance was common to 70’s synth pioneers who used walls of synths and cables to make sound but now it’s use will be for 21st century electronic beats, rhythms and soundscapes.
Sigh…Ich will nach Deutschland fahren.
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
Phrase of the week: Rock N’ Roll Lifestyle.
Definition: Where Holly and I spent most of the week of SXSW without wristbands hereby being denied entrance to 99% of the shows- but still seeing at least one band a night Tuesday thru Friday (with a bit on Saturday), staying up late and still managing to get to work the next day.
Yeah- how about them apples? The Birthday Massacre on Tuesday (feels like a million years ago), Tokyo Rose on Wednesday (feels like a thousand years ago), Echo & The Bunnymen on Thursday (feels like a hundred years ago), St. Patrick’s Day gallivanting on Friday and tarot card reading on Saturday. Sunday it was laundry day. And silent and gray…
For St. Patrick’s Day we went around downtown- saw a free show from a band called Need For Fire- where the band was all dressed up in kilts (I was going to wear mine but on me- they just look like skirts) and the electric guitars were accompanied by Irish Fiddles and a Bagpipe. Bagpipe Rock Rules! The show actually wasn’t free, you had to pay a $10.00 cover (the event wasn’t part of SXSW) to get into a beer tent. Holly & and I watched the show from the sidelines and got a pretty good view of the band. Pretty good gig for free and definitely matched the day.
The rest of the night, we just people watched and walked around. I made the mistake of eating a slice of pizza which sat in my stomach and got me tired and sleepy. Good pizza, though.
WEEKEND MOVIES! (Because I’m too wussy for the Rock N’ Roll Lifestyle and I needed to just kick back at home and be a potato)
Free Enterprise: Okay movie- tries too hard at times and works best as time capsule of the late nineties. Love the scene at the Northridge Golden Apple store- down the street from where I used to live and where I spent many an hour and many a dollar. That mural was painted over about a year ago and pissed me off when they did. It was an awesome landmark and I miss it. 3 Stars.
Happy Potter & the Goblet of Fire: The first movie in the franchise that I like. (I’ve read all but the 5th book, which I did start but got bored reading…maybe I’ll continue it later) I hated the first two movies and the third one was visually impressive but the story tried to do too much and just screwed the pacing. Sometimes, it’s all about the pacing. This one had much more liberty with the story as compared to the source material. It was still faithful to the book and I just loved that the confrontation between the title character and his nemesis retained the intensity from when I read it. 5 Stars.
Sleeper Cell Episodes 1-4: The Northridge Fashion Center gets attacked again! Who knew that mall was such a target? Another fine reminder of home. A ‘super-villain’ point of view story and different from all the spy/terrorist shows all over the place nowadays- want to see the rest of the series, the first four episodes were pretty cool. 4 Stars.
PS: some of the line up for the Mera Luna Festival in Germany:
APOPTYGMA BERZERK , BAUHAUS , CLAN OF XYMOX , DIE KRUPPS, FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY , FUNKER VOGT, MINISTRY , NITZER EBB, THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE (amongst others)
If anyone wants to send Holly and myself there- we’d be grateful. If you even ever see just two of the bands listed on the same show stateside, consider yourself lucky. That’s a bad ass lineup right there.
And then here’s some people playing at the Wave Gothik in June:
Clan of Xymox
Decoded Feedback
Haujobb
Heaven 17 (!)
Lydia Lunch
Nitzer Ebb
Nosferatu
The Legendary Pink Dots
MODCOM-a new project from Ronan Harris that will make its debut at this year’s Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig. The music from this one-man project uses analog modular synthesizers and analog sequencers for live sound generation. Sequences and sounds are patched, manipulated, effected, re-patched and mixed live. This kind of performance was common to 70’s synth pioneers who used walls of synths and cables to make sound but now it’s use will be for 21st century electronic beats, rhythms and soundscapes.
Sigh…Ich will nach Deutschland fahren.
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
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