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gregor
Monthly Archive for March, 2007Page 2 of 4
photo by wendy lynch
dont have too much time to chit chat cause i gots to get ready for work. only, and hopefully, one more week of this over night bullshit. its really starting to take its toll on my body and my ability to accomplish anything during my waking hours.
firstly, wilco world is accepting pre-orders for sky blue sky and of course there are a whole bunch of cool incentives if you do so. i am personally going to be ordering the cd/tshirt deal which i believe is like 33 bucks. they are also pressing it to 180 gram vinyl, which is pretty fantastic, but the cool thing is is that if you order the vinyl you get the cd too.
secondly, my offering of the evening is a beautiful recording of mark kozelek as sun kil moon performing at the great american music hall in san fran on 4.31.04. the second part of the show will be posted tomorrow.
1. intro
4. banter
5. pancho villa
7. all mixed up
8. new jersey
9. banter
10. trailways
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sadly i have only witnessed built to spill live, once. every time they came around i was either too busy, lazy, drunk, broke, or any random combination to attend. i dont remember much of the performance, but they did kick my ass something fierce. it was like doug martsch firmly grabbed, but not too hard, my nuts for an hour and half and had his way with them. by the end of the evening my soul and my bones were shaking in a way that only my bloody valentine and the truckers have ever accomplished. so the only way i have to even slightly relive that glorious evening is through the random live recordings i have accumulated over the years.
here are the men of buit to spill playing live in detroit on 9.28.06
1. liar
2. the plan
5. untrustable
6. rearrange
7. traces
11. big dipper
12. carry the zero
conventional wisdom video
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have you guys seen smokin aces as of yet? going in i didnt have much of opinion other than the previews made it look kinda badass, and it doesnt disappoint. in fact, i loved it, even if it features my arch nemesis, jeremy piven, as a coked out/has been vegas performer fucktard. why is he my arch nemesis you ask? long story short is that i had three run ins with him and all three encounters were less than cool. the last time took place at the holiday club, in chicago, back in like 1999. he was at the bar with some leggy blonde, i went to say hello and shake his hand when he pulled away and acted as if he was like a ninja. he flailed his arms in a circular fashion and screamed something about a cigar - this was not done in a comedic way either. at that point i just turned and walked away. still, my distaste for mr piven didnt take away from the fact that smokin aces is pretty great.
kevin barnes is a complicated man to say the least. up until of montreal’s latest and greatest release hissing fauna are you the destroyer i never paid too much attention to the lyrical content. i mean i listened and sang along but never picked up on the running themes of isolation and despair that seemingly run through most of their/his records. they are easy to pass over because of his incorporation/fascination of that damn catchy 60’s pop/psychedelia. this new found level of the onion or of montreal as it were makes listening more like sitting in on a therapy session than just a happy little sing a long for 45 or so minutes. one of the paste reviewers said of hissing fauna that, i am paraphrasing here, its “the most fun while wrestling with somebody else’s demons.” that pretty much sums up the experience, and its a grand experience. he’s definitely gone in a more disjointed musical direction but i think it helps create a landscape that is more intune with the severity of the subject manner. hissing fauna is the sound of man and his music that both sound as if they could come undone at any moment.
here they are performing at the wonder ballroom on 2.6.07 in portland, or.
this can now be found here
1. Verdi intro > Suffer for Fashion
3. Pussy Freak
7. Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
8. talking
12. She’s a Rejector> We Were Born Mutants Again with Leafling
14. I Was a Landscape in Your Dream
15. Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider
16. Gronlandic Edit
17. A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
21. encore break
22. Tropical Iceland
23. Requiem for OMM2
buy of montreal stuff on 
worst band name in history, or at least pretty damn close. kiss the anus of a black cat hail which from gent, belguim is the brain child of stef heeren. i am hoping that the name is derived from some regional inside joke. oddly enough their name aptly fits the music. its an interesting blend of arcade fire style emotional outcries, and an even more apocalyptic version of david eugene edwards work with woven hand. their new record an interlude to the outermost was released a couple of weeks ago and i am unsure if its available anywhere but i am sure you can purchase it directly through his site.
woven hand
here is the remainder of the bowie show from st. louis
15. we prick you
16. joe the lion
18. reptile
19. nite flights
20. under pressure
21. teenage wildlife
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i make zero excuses to the fact that i watch american idol, but thank god i missed last evenings performance. i probably would have tore my randy jackson/journey poster off my wall in a fit of unadulterated/blind rage after seeing the newest contestant inspired ford commercial.
