More Than Vibrations
It is a miserable February day. The drafty windows are letting in a full wind from outside, as my throat is becoming scratchier. The music starts, my eyes weigh heavy on the cover art – a boat with tall sails and masts floating on water. I am reminded of the rain hitting the roof and windows and suddenly it is in harmony with the sounds filling the room. The winds blow to the melody of the strings and the trees hit this old house as the drums intensify. My eyes still fixed on the black ink drawing of a boat, the music progresses and as the song climaxes, I realize that I have heard an interpretation of nature. This music wasn’t simply created from mind to song, but the interaction with sea-winds, and tidal waves, and hurricanes, and birds in flight, and breezes across meadows of tall grass have infiltrated the minds of its producers. The winter doldrums I began today in have made way for a glorious vision of a dark tempest in an elegant concert.
(the) slowest runner (in all the world) plays TT’s this Sat. 2/27 with Hadoken and Caspian.
meat is murder x 25
The Smiths – Meat is Murder (1986; Live)
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Also: Valentine’s Day: Thunderdome.
newspress scare
The internet has sent me word that Vikesh Kapoor is celebrating the release of his Newspress Scare 7″ (pre-order) tonight at the Democracy Center. My questions are as follows: (1) what’s a newspress, and (2) what does it have to do with twitter google buzz?
Vikesh Kapoor Newspress Scare 7″ Record Release Show:
2/11/10 @ the Democracy Center (map); 7pm.
Tickets at the door or here.
this week in boston: together
Together events where you will not run into Mayor Menino:
2.8 Beat Research @ Enormous Room
2.9 Heathrob with AC Slater and Udachi @ Middlesex
2.10 Das Rascist @ Great Scott
2.11 Neon Indian @ Great Scott
2.12 Sinden and Shuttle @ Middle East downstairs
2.13 Bodies of Water showcase feat. Big Digits, Truman Peyote, Many Mansions, etc. @ Cambridge YMCA
2.14 Thunderdome @ Villa Victoria
For a complete list of events that Mayor Menino will not attend head on over to Together and/or get regular updates from @tgthrbstn.
kem pa sote
A cute girl from the You Can Be A Wesley clan sent along the following information:
A Party to Benefit the Future of Haiti @ the Middle East downstairs
Performances by:
Aloud
The Lights Out
Pretty & NiceYou Can Be A WesleySpinning:
Michael V (The Pill)
Repeat Offenders (FTW)
Damien Paul (So Dope)Photos by Gillian Bowling
Live podcast by The Empire
Raffles for prizes donated by local business!Doors at 7:30, 18+, $10 (larger donations gladly accepted).
Presented by One in a Million Media.
Insert snark here.
Kisses,
Nick
Nick also relayed to me that he will happily give mouth kisses to anyone who donates above and beyond the $10 door charge. (I’ve got my $10.25 ready.)
Enough Karaoke: Tab the Band
Many thanks to Tab the Band who were a blast to party with. Also, and probably more importantly, they have an LP out today called Zoo Noises. (Buy.)
Upcoming Shows:
1/28 – Bowery Ballroom (NY)
1/30 – Middle East upstairs (Boston)
2/01 – House of Blues (Boston)
2/11 – The Space (CT)
Sans Terrabyte
Bathed in a dull blue light, the soft spinning of the hard drive does no longer registers to the screengazer. Like a marine and his weapon, or a Baptist with a bible, the screengazer and computer begin to resemble each other in kind; for the latter it is aesthetic, and the former, kinetic (the movement over keys, the accessing of data, mentally processing and creating new search criteria…). So, there, hunched over the screen, she watches, she learns, she laughs, she lolz. All the while this song plays in the background.
food
The following are topics most say should be avoided in an introductory conversation: weather, traffic, and politics.
I submit the following topics as off limits in an introductory conversation: yeast infections, conception, and weight loss.
Coffee talk.
Girlfriends – I Was Here But I Disappear
