11 posts tagged “media”
Next, we're going to look for the Mode building from Ugly Betty.
I'm just catching up.
We're watching the new Grant Washburn movie.
...but thankfully we don't have to listen to all of it.
If I knew anything about basketball, I might know who they are.
OK, I know I'm not going out on a limb with this topic, but I can't believe how atrocious radio has become. I usually have an iPod in my car and really haven't listened to anything on the radio but Howard Stern in years. But my car has been in the shop for the last week (some idiot rear-ended me while I was stopped at a red light) and I've been driving our Suburban which doesn't work with the cassette interface the iPod requires. Meanwhile, Howard's gone satellite and I'm stuck listening to the regular radio. To paraphrase one of my co-workers, it fucking sucks.
I tried listening to my old standby, KFOG, but in two 15 minute sessions (one on the drive into work, one on the drive home) I heard the same terrible Train song. Check out their just played page and I guarantee you'll see what I mean. As I write this now, the last ten songs include Jerry Garcia, Peter Gabriel, The Beatles and Steve Miller Band. I mean, I love the 60's and 70's too but do we still need to hear "Long and Winding Road" and "Swingtown"?
Live 105 was a Howard Stern rerun during my morning drive; at night they featured songs that make Stone Temple Pilots sound cutting edge. The Bone (107.7) is usually my refuge when all else fails but they kept going deep into the one catalog of music (heavy metal) where you tend not to want to go too deep.
So I spun through the dial in a desperate search for something better. Since I don't speak Spanish and I'm not religious, my options were highly limited. The lesser of all evils turned out to be Fresh Air, but only because they were doing a profile of Gene Wilder. Normally, NPR reminds me of hanging out in a Berkeley cafe. Which, needless to say, I just don't make a habit of.
I just found out my car won't be back for probably two more weeks. Shoot me now.
Dagmar passed this link along to me, it's a fun feature on South Park's website I hadn't seen before. Build your own South Park character (it's towards the bottom of the page).
This is me on my morning hike.
We saw Lucinda Williams play the Mountain Winery on Monday and got to see one of those special shows you're always hoping for. Lucinda came on only 10 minutes after John Doe finished his opening set as she clearly wanted to get as much playing time as possible (shows at the Winery have to end by 10:30pm). She announced early on that she had 24 new songs written and they were finishing off her new album. They played a good number of them; "Come On" and "Jailhouse Tears" (which she dueted with John Doe on) were particular standouts.
After playing one of the more rocked out sets we've seen (c.f. next paragraph), she came out for an encore and announced that it would be about Louisiana. She talked about her mother being from New Orleans and that she has now watched both her mother and then her mother's city die. It was very emotional and she proceeded to play some great Louisiana themed songs (although not "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten" unfortunately). Definitely wish they hadn't cut her off at the curfew, she would have kept going for awhile.
We've seen Lucinda play a bunch of times and have witnessed at least a few of her different moods. We saw one of her Fillmore shows recorded for this album where she came out late because she had been watching Bush give a speech. She was clearly depressed by it because she proceeded to play almost all of her slower songs (and she has plenty). Good show, but you had to be a real fan.
I had another picture to post before this one, but apparently they haven't discovered the wonders of cell phone coverage in the Mission. Sorry, but you may never see the great picture of a bowl formerly filled with pudding. The picture and the pudding were very good.
Mena, Ben, Kerry-ite Randy and I had dinner at Medjool before we (sans the liberal) headed over to Nick's party. This picture was taken during Velvet Guitar, the most rocking out song on A Man Under The Influence. It was great to finally get to see Alejandro Escovedo live, he put on a wonderful show.
