Tuesday, August 02, 2005

California Tenspeed

What I don't like most about the Clap Yr Hands record is that Pitchfork gave it a 9.0 but they praise it for the same reasons they think the Dr. Dog album sucks.

Also, the Teeth were in the news section of Pitchfork today. I think for the first time. They are playing on August 20th at the North Star Bar. It may be my last Teeth show for a while.

Had a fun weekend. Did lots of stuff. There is so much to do though before I leave. I booked my flight to California. I'm leaving on Thursday August 25th at 6:20am. Sunday I went to Philly with Jilly and did touristy things and I haven't did that before. It was fun. We went to the Constitution Center and I saw Abraham Lincoln's hat.

On Friday when I was getting ready to leave for the city this squirrel jumped in through our kitchen window somehow. I guess the screen was loose. He started knocking stuff over and couldn't get out. I quick opened up the front and back doors and chased him around til I couldn't find him anymore. Then I spent the rest of the weekend at Jill and Kelly's.

I've been watching Entourage, Six Feet Under and Arrested Development. Entourage, I love so much. I love the characters and the actors. I love that it's not even about Hollywood at all. Six Feet Under is fucking killing me! I can't believe what they are doing. I wish someone else was watching so I had someone to talk to about it. It's hard to go through alone. And Arrested Development, I really wish I hadn't spent the past year working Sunday nights and missing the best television show ever, ever. I have one more disc left from Season One left. It should be coming tomorrow. I'm also supposedta get a Documentry on Jandek and the short film collection of Hal Hartley.

Went to see Matt's band last night at 15 North. They had a great name, Mammal. They did a Motorhead cover, Ace of Spades. They were just a little too metal. Wished they were a little more prog. With a name like Mammal, they need to be. The band before them, were toat awful. They did mid 90's alt rock covers. And sat down on stools for what Becky called the Unplugged effect. I disagreed and pointed out, as the band sat through 311 and Greenday covers that Nirvana didn't do Smells Like Teen Spirit unplugged, they did fuckin' All Apologies.