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sunday, march 14th
a special screening of the
white stripes tour documentary
"under the great white northern lights"
free admission / prize pack drawing
10pm @ the otherside cafe
sunday, march 14th
carbon leaf
@ the paradise
monday, march 15th
one happy island
standard fare
summer cats
@ great scott
monday, march 15th
letting up despite great faults
the brother kite
plumerai
singing bridges
@ the middle east upstairs
tuesday, march 16th
bacchus king
croquet
cathy cathodic
the ugly fucklings
@ the middle east upstairs
wednesday, march 17th
joanna newsom
@ the sanders theatre, harvard
wednesday, march 17th
henry rollins (spoken word)
@ the somerville theatre
thursday, march 18th
apollo sunshine
drug rug
@ the paradise
friday, march 19th
i, pistol
mascara
planetoid
forgetful jones
@ tt the bears
saturday, march 20th
the whitehaus family blastfest
needy visions, manners,
morgan shaker, avi jacob,
and many more
@ cambridge ymca theatre
saturday, march 20th
air
am
@ berklee performance center
sunday, march 21st
the clientele
field music
@ great scott
wednesday, march 24th
extraneous noise presents...
golden spurs
spirit kid
some say fire
the novel ideas
@ the middle east upstairs
thursday, march 25th
"thursday night alright!" with
the beatings
aloud
action camp
hello ninja
@ great scott
thursday, march 25th
the donnas
@ the paradise
friday, march 26th
eldridge rodriguez (the beatings)
ryan lee crosby
ted billings (age rings/hot protestants)
@ the somerville armory
friday, march 26th
basia bulat
marissa nadler
lady lamb the beekeeper
@ tt the bears
saturday, march 27th
your say party! we say die!
the new collisions
static of the gods (cd release)
@ tt the bears
saturday, march 27th
the big pink
a place to bury strangers
magic magic
@ the paradise
saturday, march 27th
spoon
deerhunter
@ the house of blues
sunday, march 28th
beach house
bachelorette
@ the paradise
monday, march 29th
the soft pack
nodzzz
beaters
@ great scott
tuesday, march 30th
shearwater
wye oak
hospital ships
@ tt the bears
tuesday, march 30th
manchester orchestra
the features
biffy clyro
o'brother
@ the paradise
wednesday, march 31st
japandroids
love is all
girlfriends
@ the middle east downstairs
wednesday, march 31st
miike snow
delorean
@ the paradise
wednesday, march 31st
a sunny day in glasgow
pants yell!
bearstronaut
@ great scott
thursday, april 1st
girls
dum dum girls
@ the paradise
friday, april 2nd
the xx
jj (late show only)
two shows @ the paradise
friday, april 2nd
drive-by truckers
lucero
langhorne slim
@ the house of blues
saturday, april 3rd
cassavettes
the grownup noise
kingsley flood (cd release)
spouse
@ the middle east upstairs
saturday, april 3rd
black rebel motorcycle club
alberta cross
@ the house of blues
saturday, april 3rd
nada surf
dawn landes & the hounds
@ the paradise
sunday, april 4th
serena maneesh
depreciation guild
black fortress of opium
@ tt the bears
tuesday, april 6th
wilco
@ the orpheum
tuesday, april 6th
ben fold & a piano
kate miller-heidke
@ the house of blues
wednesday, april 7th
florence & the machine
@ the paradise
wednesday, april 7th
rocky votolato
brooke waggoner
@ great scott
thursday, april 8th
faces on film
hands & knees
st. claire (cd release!)
mr. sister
@ tt the bears
thursday, april 8th
thom yorke + atoms for peace
flying lotus
@ the citi/wang theatre
friday, april 9th
midlake
@ the paradise
saturday, april 10th
xiu xiu
tune-yards
@ the middle east downstairs
saturday, april 10th
ted leo & the pharmacists
obits
screaming females
@ the paradise
saturday, april 10th
pissed jeans
confines
sqrm
@ great scott
sunday, april 11th
fanfarlo
lawrence arabia
robert francis
@ the paradise
monday, april 12th
the wedding present
play their 1989 lp 'bizarro'
with openers girl in a coma
@ the middle east downstairs
monday, april 12th
titus andronicus
the babies
@ great scott
thursday, april 15th
jakob dylan with guests
neko case + kelly hogan
@ the wilbur theatre
thursday, april 15th
red sparowes
doomriders
@ the middle east downstairs
friday, april 16th
guillermo sexo
freddie t and the people
(ex-june of 44 / hoover)
travels
ghost box orchestra
@ pa's lounge
friday, april 16th
have nots (vinyl release!)
the appreciation post
razors in the night
wicked whiskey
the swaggerin growlers
@ tt the bears
saturday, april 17th
kaki king
an horse
@ the middle east downstairs
saturday, april 17th
the morning benders
miniature tigers
@ tt the bears
sunday, april 18th
heavy trash (w/jon spencer)
the konks
the cobra-matics
@ tt the bears
sunday, april 18th
the thermals
past lives
@ the middle east downstairs
monday, april 19th
trans am
@ the middle east downstairs
tuesday, april 20th
owen pallett (aka final fantasy)
@ the ica boston
tuesday, april 20th
elvis costello & the sugarcanes
@ the orpheum
tuesday, april 20th
the low anthem
timber timbre
@ the paradise
tuesday, april 20th
quasi
let's wrestle
@ the middle east downstairs
wednesday, april 21st
the church
special 30th anniversary
acoustic career retrospective
@ the somerville armory
wednesday, april 21st through
wednesday, april 28th
the 8th annual independent film festival of boston
@ various boston area theatres
including the somerville + brattle
thursday, april 22nd
the mary onettes
@ great scott
saturday, april 24th
graham parker with
the figgs
@ johnny d's, somerville
saturday, april 24th
los campesinos!
here we go magic
@ the paradise
sunday, april 25th
harlem
@ the great scott
monday, april 26th
echo + the bunneymen
hatcham social
@ the paradise
wednesday, april 28th
gogol bordello
devotchka
jesse malin
st. mark's social
@ the house of blues
thursday, april 29th
frightened rabbit
@ the paradise
friday, april 30th
the everyday visuals
the lights out
the flying machines
aloud
@ tt the bears
friday, april 30th
corinne bailey ray
@ the house of blues
friday, april 30th
the album leaf
sea wolf
@ the paradise
wednesday, april 28th
little boots
dragonette
fan death
@ the middle east downstairs
saturday, may 1st
white rabbits
here we go magic
@ the paradise
monday, may 3rd
yeasayer
sleigh bells
@ the paradise
tuesday, may 4th
gregory & the hawk
lady lamb the beekeeper
@ tt the bears
tuesday & wednesday
may 4th & 5th
public image ltd.
@ the royale (formerly the roxy)
wednesday & thursday
may 5th & 6th
jonsi (from sigur ros)
@ the house of blues
thursday, may 6th
shout out louds
@ the paradise
friday, may 7th
ok go
earl greyhound
robert francis
@ the paradise
saturday, may 8th
local natives
@ great scott
tuesday & wednesday
may 11th & 12th
dr. dog
deer tick
@ the paradise
thursday, may 13th
small brown bike
bridge and tunnel
your skull my closet
wallcreeper
@ great scott
saturday, may 22nd
killing joke
@ the paradise
tuesday, may 18th
spectrum (featuring sonic boom
from spacemen 3 + e.a.r.)
with the broken river prophet
@ the middle east upstairs
tuesday, may 25th
the smittens
allo darlin'
one happy island
hearts!attack
a smile and a ribbon
horowitz
@ the lizard lounge
wednesday, may 26th
reverend horton heat
cracker
miss derringer
@ the house of blues
friday, may 28th
mono
the twilight sad
@ the middle east downstairs
wednesday, june 2nd
kings of convenience
franklin for short
@ the paradise
wednesday, june 2nd
ryan bingham & the dead horses
@ tt the bears
wednesday & thursday
june 2nd & 3rd
the national
@ the house of blues
friday, june 4th
brian jonestown massacre
@ the paradise
friday, june 18th
reigning sound
movers & shakers
triplethick
@ tt the bears
saturday, june 19th
james taylor
carole king
@ the garden
sunday + monday
june 20th + 21st
isis
melvins
totimoshi
@ the paradise
thursday + saturday
august 19th + 21st
tom petty + the heartbreakers
my morning jacket
@ the comcast center
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Saturday, June 28, 2003 They played Dalliance...  Friday, June 27, 2003 A Minor Almanac Milestone : Puttin' on the Hits On February 7th, 2000, in a fit of work-downtime and winter-boredom, this little old website was born. The long, slow death of my previous workplace led to the long, steady growth of the Almanac, and I took the blogger-plunge in July 2001. By February of the following year, I was up to a modest 5,000 total hits on the site-counter... not a lot, sure, but not bad for someone who didn't feel comfortable telling other people about his online home. Then something happened. From February 2002 to February 2003, I jumped from 5,000 hits up to 20,000. I had actually started feeling proud of the place, spreading the word, linking to friends, putting up more content. 15,000 hits in a year. I was kinda blown away. So sometime last week, just four months later, it looks like I cruised by the 30,000 mark. That's something, right there. So, yeah, thanks for surfin' by. I surely do appreciate it. Review - TMBG's Gigantic : A Tale of Two Johns
Thursday, June 26, 2003 Commencement Amusement : Will Ferrell's 2003 Harvard Graduation Speech The fine folk over at Pure Content have posted the complete text of Will Ferrell's recent speech to Harvard's 2003 graduating class. Not quite as much ha-ha as Conan O'Brien's speech a few years back, but still a damn funny read. An excerpt: So my gift to you, Class of 2003, is to tell you about the real world through my eyes, through my experiences. And I'm sorry, but I refuse to sugarcoat it. I ain't gonna do it. And I probably shouldn't use the word "ain't" during this day in which we celebrate education. But that's just the way I play it, Homes.(thanks for the heads-up, Heath) Tuesday, June 24, 2003 Get In Touch With Your Metrosexual Side... I'm quite comfortably able to report that while Matt and Jason may consider themselves budding Metrosexuals, I am clearly no such creature. I will not be categorized, Mr. Marketing Man. I loathe shopping (fortunately Amie does enough for the both of us), and up until a couple weeks ago, the only hair styling products I've ever used were in my Robert Smith wig, on Halloween night, 1989. I've never picked up a pair of Diesel Jeans, I don't even know what the hell those magazines are that those guys are talking about. Give me a good beer before a glass of wine any day of the week. (Seriously, give me one. Please? It's been a rough day.) Then again, I believe another indicator of Metrosexuality (or, as Jason says, "lady lovin homos"), is neatness. And I am, if anything, compulsively neat. Matter o' fact, the first time Amie ever walked into my apartment, she thought... "Oh my god, he lives alone, his place is incredibly neat, well decorated, he's got a cat... and he's not gay. I could marry this guy." And so she did. That's besides the point, though. One symptom does not a metrosexual make. Oh, wait, there's the yoga lessons... and Trading Spaces on the TiVo. Awwwww crap. Fixed : Accessing the Almanac, Not Fixed : Accessing the MoveOn Virtual Primary If you're a semi-regular surfer to my site, you've probably noticed the occasional instance when you'd try to get here and you'd just... well, hang. And then you'd get an error. The old familiar "Page Cannot Be Displayed" message. Well, to quote an ex-girlfriend... "It's not you, it's me." Apparantly my registrar (aka the company I registered my domain name with) had trouble pointing to the correct IP address for my webserver. Basically, it wasn't always able to talk to the Domain Name Servers (DNS) at my webspace provider. After some phone calls and a few tech support emails, my provider finally forked over some new DNS server names to give my registar... apparantly the ones they originally gave me (DNS1 and DNS2) were so old they were gathering mold. I switched over to DNS5 and DNS6, and voila. No more connection issues. Oh, sorry, did I just put you to sleep? To summarize : It was broke, now it's not. Getting here should be far less annoying from now on. As for the actual content... well, I can't promise anything there.  In other "Page Cannot Be Displayed" news... MoveOn.org, the online political action organization that boasts 1.4 million members, officially started it's "virtual primary" today, where registered participants can vote online for their preferred Democratic Presidential Candidate. If any one of the candidates gets more than 50% of the vote, MoveOn will endorse them... and that's an pretty big deal. Unfortunately, soon after voting opened this morning, their webservers took a nosedive and crashed hard. Not ready for the volume of traffic, apparantly. Slightly embarrassing for them, but exciting to know that so many people are interested in this political picking and clicking. If you look to the upper right, you can probably guess who I'm planning to vote for, so I hope I actually get to vote. It'd be a shame if this whole thing gets spoiled by an unprepared, if well-intentioned, IT crew. 12:30pm - an update : It looks like they're back up and limping. It's possible to get through, but it might take more than a few attempts. Consider my vote cast and counted. Monday, June 23, 2003 Get Inspired : Dean envisions "The Great American Restoration" The text of Howard Dean's presidential campaign kick-off speech, titled The Great American Restoration, is already online, and it's an inspiring read. No matter where your loyalties lay, it's worth a look. My favorite bit... "Our President and too many in Washington are giving away our future so that we pass to our children not a flickering flame of freedom � but the chain of insurmountable debt.More in link. Go read... and Go Dean! Tech Tip : Updated Right-Click Menu Fix for Blogger's BlogThis! Feature in IE6 With the hard working crew at Pyra/Google in the process of changing tons of Blogger users over to the brand new interface, I spent some time figuring out how to get the handy right-click menu option for their BlogThis! feature up and running on Internet Explorer 6. This is all, of course, on the condition that you once had right-click BlogThis! running when you were using pro.blogger.com, and that it no longer functions now that you're using new interface at new.blogger.com. (If you never installed BlogThis!, I highly recommend that you first go here and install this. Give thanks to Phil while you're there). 1. First and foremost, back up your registry. Run 'regedit' from your start bar, choose Registry / Export and select All for the Export range. Save it in a convenient location. 2. Next, rename your current BlogThis file, which is located in Program Files/BlogThis. It should be called blogthis.pyra. Rename it to blogthis.orig. 3. Grab this file (right click, save as...) and save it to that same directory. It should have the same name as the one you just renamed. Windows may try to rename it with a .txt or .htm extension on the end of it, so make sure your folder settings show file extensions, and that this file is simply named blog_this.pyra. NOTE: The new BlogThis that the folks at Blogger have come up with references a file called "blog_this.pyra". Note the addition of an underscore. If you've already tried to mess with the settings, your registry may be looking for blog_this.pyra instead of blogthis.pyra. You have two simple options: A. The easy fix : make a copy of the new blogthis.pyra file you got from me and rename it blog_this.pyra. That should allow either registry setting to work. B. The almost as easy fix : edit your registry. Run regedit and browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\BlogThis! Make sure that the Default string points to the name of the file you have in your BlogThis directory (either Program Files\BlogThis\blog_this.pyra, or blogthis.pyra). Once you've got everything all set, close all instances of Internet Explorer, reopen one, open your right click menu. You should see a choice for BlogThis!, so choose it and cross your fingers. Hopefully the BlogThis! interface will open and you can post to your heart's content. Of course, I can't guarantee this will work for all users... it is Windows we're talking about here, after all. If you mess up your machine, call me blameless. A Big Day for Candidate Dean At noon today, on the main street of my hometown, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean will officially announce his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States of America. The roadways are filling with Dean supporters, and the rally is hours away. It's a big day for all involved, and even for those who may not know it yet. If we're lucky (and by we, I mean the entire population of the U.S.), this day will go down in history as the day that marked the beginning of a new era... when the guy who brought our country back from the brink officially threw his hat into a hard-fought and well-deserved victory. Almost 13,000 people have officially registered to be part of the celebration today, at events in all fifty states, as well as virtual gatherings. I wish I could be up there in Burlington, rather than down here in Boston, but I'll be watching the webcast at 1pm, and tuning in to as much coverage as I can. Given all the media attention he's getting lately, Dean is clearly up with the front of the pack. Finally, today, the race is on. According to ABC's the Note : "Today, Howard Dean's announcement speech will be seen live by more supporters than any announcement in the history of presidential politics....". To get involved in today's countrywide party, head on over to the Dean Action Site and find out where the masses are gathering near you. When asked where you were on the day things started changing, you'll be able to say "I was with the people who believed." Thursday, June 19, 2003 Pictures Posted : Ponkapoag Pond, the Bronx Zoo, Kim & Seth's Wedding Bunches of new photos to check out, if you are so inclined. Just click these images to be taken to the photo pages... Last weekend's walk around Ponkapoag Pond in the Blue Hills... Wednesday, June 18, 2003 Cutting Edge Crowding : Flash MOBs Explained Random, jacked-in New Yorkers are using email and cell-phone messaging to coordinate Flash MOBs... sudden, unexplained crowds of people who gather in one place, doing something, for 10 minutes or less... confounding clueless onlookers. The most recent gathering was in the Macy's rug department, where everyone stared at one specific rug. Check out the photographic evidence. Here are some excerpts from the email instructions for yesterday's MOB #2: You are invited to take part in MOB, the project that creates an inexplicable mob of people in New York City for ten minutes or less. Please forward this to other people you know who might like to join.Absolutely, pointlessly, perfectly, brilliant. If you're in NYC, join in. If a Boston MOB starts up, I'm very there. Thanks for clueing me in, Hollis. In the new Onion : College DJ's Cult Following As always, the Onion nails it... College Radio DJ Thinks He Has Cult Followingmore in link. This one is even better. Get It : Stinger - NAI's Free Virus Cleaner Been meaning to post this link for awhile, and you'd do yourself a favor if you follow it ... Network Associates (aka the McAfee crew) makes available a little-known (at least outside InfoSec circles), and completely free, trojan/virus/worm detection and removal utility called Stinger. It's a slimmed down tool, so it only searches for a select number of nasties, but it's updated regularly to include the most common ones out there. For example, the latest version (released on June 5th) searches for 12 viruses, including Bugbear, Nimda, Lovgate, Slammer, Klez, and more. It's small, easy, runs quickly... and it's helped me out in a pinch when I need to clean someone's machine here at work. Y'see, some particularly tricky viruses prevent your normal detection software from running correctly, and when that happens, Stinger can do the job. Go n' get it. Tuesday, June 17, 2003 Radiohead : Hail to the Thief bonus track mp3
Labels: livemp3s Friday, June 13, 2003 The Red Sox Rollercoaster Well, I ended up with a hell of a game for my first visit of the year to Fenway Paaahk last night. Yeah, it was 13 innings long, but I only made it through 10, deciding to take off after the boys let go of a hard-fought tie game for the first time. Little did I know there'd be another comeback in the bottom of the 10th, and another attempt in the 13th. Sure, throw another layer on the letdown cake... Sox fans are used to it. We can handle the stress, right? Ah, I'm just kidding... it was a great time. So we came up a little short... at least the guys put on a show. Despite the rain, despite the dwindling crowds, despite many innings of shutout baseball, they fought back and turned a boring game into a nail-biter. The rollercoaster and the rain scared a bunch of suit-wearing business-boys away early, so we scored fourth row seats on the third base line for the last couple innings. It's gonna be hard to sit any further back after being spoiled like that... a foul pop-up brought Nomar right next to us (and, of course, resulted in a drunken knucklehead chorus of "NoooMMMAaaaaaHhh!"). Good times, good times.
Thursday, June 12, 2003 An Elliott Smith Fix Every couple of weeks I think to myself "the world could use a new Elliott Smith album right about now." It's been over three years since Figure 8 was released, and that's just too dang long for a new batch of Elliott songs. Then last night I happened upon the Elliott Smith Mini-Repository, where you can download four complete live sets, each of which contains some new, unreleased material. Given these shows, and his recent appearance at the rainy Field Day Fest, it seems that Mr. Smith is slowly coming out of hiding. Rumor has it that a new album is due "sometime this year", so in the meantime, enjoy the live preview, check out a recent interview in Under the Radar, and keep up to date at Sweet Adeline, probably the best Elliott site out there. Wednesday, June 11, 2003 Howard Dean's Blog For America Presidential candidate Howard Dean has a bright, shiny new website, the Blog for America. It's an excellent resource for Dean news and updates on event turnouts and volunteer efforts. Head on over. Speaking of turnouts, this past Monday's visit to Bushy's home state of Texas showed just how much momentum the campaign is building. The stop was organized in just 10 days, and primarily over the internet, so there was an estimated turnout of around 300 people. By the time Dean arrived, it had swelled to an incredible 3,200. Inspiring, to say the least. Tuesday, June 10, 2003 Take Your Slow, Smelly Suicide Outside... It is a very, very good day, indeed.... Cambridge, MA Adopts Smoking Ban After Contentious DebateAs glad as I was that Boston proper started the ban on May 1st, Cambridge is where most of the good shows are... The Middle East, TTs, the Lizard Lounge ... and smoke keeps me from spending more time at my favorite Cambridge bars, like Charlie's in Harvard Square or River Gods in Central. October 1st can't come soon enough. Monday, June 09, 2003 For Your Ears : My Life or Some Dream - a free mp3 collection
Thursday, June 05, 2003 The Perfect Parody : An Eighties Ending This short film spoof of the ending of every eighties-era movie you've ever seen is so right on. I can't stop smiling. Thanks, Matt. The 1992 Sub Pop Vermonstress Fest : Live Codeine My online archiving of the 1992 Sub Pop Vermonstress Festival continues with the third installment, this time from from one of my favorite bands... Codeine. It's a seven song set that's remarkable in that it features a rare guest drumming performance by Antietam's Josh Madell. Excellent stuff.  Blogdex : 'Nac Attack Blogdex, for those of you unaware, is a blog indexing website pulled together by some big brains at MIT. Not only does it offer up the currently most blogged stories on the net, but it's got a great search function that allows you to find requested sites linked on indexed blogs. These searches also reveal exactly what text was used in the links. It's a handy dandy little resource, and as Joe pointed out to me this morning, it doesn't seem to miss a beat... Y'know the post I made the other day about Tucker Max vs. Katy Johnson, aka Miss Vermont? Here's what a search for katyjohnson.com turned up yesterday... katyjohnson.comPerfect. Wednesday, June 04, 2003 Superpowered : Introducing The Incredibles If you've already seen Finding Nemo, then you've already had the thrill of checking out the new teaser trailer for next year's Pixar flick, The Incredibles. If you haven't, well, it's now available online, so go ahead and make with the clicky. The film is directed by Brad Bird, the animation genius behind The Iron Giant, and it looks sooooo right up my alley. Tuesday, June 03, 2003 Happy Birth Anniversary To... ... Bridget, she of the well-chosen political leanings, refined musical tastes, and discriminating viewing habits. Enjoy the day, Brdgt. Jackpot : Indie mp3 Archives Looks like Matt struck some old school twee gold. Check out this little old indie mp3 archive, hosted by the fine folks at indie pages. Mostly rare trax from the likes of Talulah Gosh, the Primitives, My Bloody Valentine, Mighty Lemon Drops, the Heartthrobs (if only it was Dreamtime!), the Pastels, and more. Nice. Head Case : Tucker Max vs. Miss Vermont Sit right back and you'll read the tale, the tale of a mysoginistic drip, who met a supposedly vapid former beauty queen in a South Florida health club, and survived to recount the story of their sordid affair on his very own website... ... only to get a restraining order dropped on his ass, preventing him from writing a word about their relationship, or from linking to her own vomit-inducing website. Yes, it's the true and unsettling story of Tucker Max vs. Miss Vermont. Go take a look at this New York Times article, willya? Then come on back, y'hear? (NOTE : You've read only, um, "non-sensitive" material so far. If you tread further, you'll need to leave your delicate sensibilities behind. Beyond here lies dirty, dirty madness.) Ok, it's unsettling for a number of reasons... First off, Mr. Tucker Max. Yeah, he's an admittedly self-centered, egotistical, cheesy bastard. That much is known. His treatment of women is appalling, but hey, it's not news. Just moderately pathetic. They guy's obviously fairly intelligent, but more than a little misguided. I mean, check out his forum if you've got the time. Yikes. Then there's our plantiff, Miss Moved-To-Vermont-To-Become-Miss-Vermont, Katy Johnson. I mean, just look at her site. It's frightening. What's more frightening, though, in a completely different way, is how she comes off in Mr. Max's way-too-detailed story. "But wait", you say, "how can I read the story? I thought the restraining order obliterated his web page?" Well, it did, but you can still read every detail thanks to the magic of Google Caching. Yup, all the dysfunction is laid out there for your enjoyment, and/or horror. I doubt it'll be there long, though, so get clickin'. (don't worry, I saved it, too) But the worst culprit in this tale is our very own justice system, or rather the Florida justice system (no surprise there, though), who squashed this "gentleman's" freedom to write about his own life on the internet. Not only that, but they did it without ever telling him. The suit went ahead without without informing Mr. Max what was even coming down. Regardless of whether his story is true (which Miss Johnson has yet to deny, and has actually partially confirmed), this moron has every right to say it, or at least every right to defend himself against the charges. Think about it... three main players in this story, and not one of them with a clue. Well, at least Tucker is moderately self-aware... he knows what he does. The judge and the beauty queen, though? Um, not so much. First Look : Mystic River Video The Cannes Film Festival has a clip from the fall film Mystic River up on it's website (scroll down their page for more). Check it out, along with some interviews and footage from the press conference as well. Kevin Bacon's faux-Boston accent isn't as scary as it could have been. Monday, June 02, 2003 Xiiin = Wow Anger You Can Use : The Bush Tax Cut Bait & Switch It's easy to read the following, dismiss it as "typical" (or even worse for some of you: "economically stimulating"), and go about your regular Monday. Pushing the facts to the back of our minds for a little while is really the only way to mentally handle what's been done here. But we can't forget it. At the very least, the word needs to be spread. Everyone needs to know. Bill Moyers reports... Deep in a Black Hole of Red InkAngry? Stay that way. Use it. Go take a look at the debt clock. Refresh the page a couple of times. Watch it rise. Channel your frustration. Volunteer for a Democratic presidential political campaign. If you don't have the time, then just make a small donation. Doesn't matter which candidate you choose (although you probably know which one I'd recommend.) Use the anger. Get involved. Spread the word. Do something. I saw a terribly sad story on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday about the not-so-slow erosion of finances for the arts during these rough economic times. Orchestras and playhouses shutting down, museums, galleries, and even libraries cutting staff and hours. It's only gettin' worse. If political donations isn't your thing, maybe it's time to become a member of your favorite arts organization, visit your favorite museum, or even check out a play this weekend. I'm thinking it might be time for me to finally get that Brattle membership. |
On the last night of it's one week run at the 
When I picked up Radiohead's new disc last week, the clerk at Newbury Comics handed me a limited edition 7'' for the first single, There There. A hip little gimmick, and a nice free bonus, especially since it also includes a non-album b-side... but it's not terribly practical for most, since turntables are as hard to find nowadays as wmds. Yeah, the song is also on the cd single, but it's an import and a tad pricey for just a couple extra tracks.
Most surreal moment of the night? The Fenway in-game musical selections. Sure, for most of the game it was your standard fare... John Fogerty, the Stray Cat Strut, that silly nu-metal squawking death-bird "Wah-ka-ka-kow!" song, and some Off the Wall-era Michael Jackson. Suddenly, inbetween batters in the bottom of the 7th, I hear the synth-filled strains of... "See You" by Depeche Mode? Huh? Who the hell snuck that one in there? I can just picture the closeted new-waver up in the booth, waiting until his boss heads to the bathroom, throwing in his "Singles 81-85" cd, grinning with glee. You know that it's true.
sparklehorse
live at the paradise
in boston, mass.
on monday, february 26th, 2009
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