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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 [...]
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)
“Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” – Gloria Estefan
I just want to freak out. I want to put my head in my pillow and scream at the top of my lungs until I turn blue and pass out. Better, I want to do that exact thing, minus the pillow, but in the middle of a crowd. The passerby will think: “wow, something must [...]
5 Albums of 2009
The five following albums were released this year.
Girls – Album
Cass McCombs – Catacombs
Woods – Songs of Shame
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Smith Westerns – Smith Westerns
For a more comprehensive, but by no means anywhere close to complete, list of albums released in 2009 I direct your attention toward Wikipedia.
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toothaches come home
Atheism, Science, and Christianity.
Could you think of a more boring article? Yesh. Punchline: Judaism, in positing a sacred/profane duality at the heart of existence, created the space for atheism. It did not exist before that. It could not have. That is why you do not have ancient Taoists, Maoris, or Lakotas arguing over theism and atheism as such; [...]
girl, i want to party with you
temporary copenhagen
an experiment on a new danish scene
a film by vincent moon
produced by rasmus stolberg and slaraffenland, tigerspring and rumraket
sounds by petter samuelsson
Temporary Copenhagen is the first experiment/instalment in a new serie documenting local creative scenes around the world, part of the bigger Temporary Areas project created by Vincent Moon. Over a few hours or a [...]
Update: making time for freak out | por la noche, ¡enorme!
Updated: More ill.
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SMD @ Paradise/18+/7pm doors
prisencolinensinainciusol
Fun Fact #134: Adriano Celentano is Italian for “American Dream.”
neon indian/singer
Peter Singer and Richard Stearns will be speaking today at 4pm. The lecture/conversation will take place at the First Parish Church (Mass Ave x Church St) and is free and open to the public.
[Neon Indian - Laughing Gas -- Video by Heidi Petty]
Evil Eye/Video Unrelated
Talk of the “evil eye” dates as far back as Hesiod and has been included in the work of Plato, Tgheocritus, Aristophanes, Plutarch and Plithy the Elder. It is also found in Islamic and Talmudic sources, albeit in a more theologically sinister form. Talismans featuring the eye of fatima have been used by a number [...]
