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Wednesday, December 4, 2002I finally added new record reviews. About 30 of them.Monday, December 2, 2002I've been so bad. I've actually almost prepared all of these new reviews to post and just haven't finished up. Maybe I'll do that tonight.I've been going out and doing so much lately that I can't even keep up. I tried to send out a newsletter a few weeks ago but I don't think it actually got delivered to anyone's email box. very strange. Anyway, I keep forgetting to update this log. You can check out my livejournal. I write mostly about shows and music there anyway. You can ignore the personal stuff if you like. Wednesday, November 13, 2002why haven't I updated this in so long? I guess i'm retarded. sorry. Issue two of the magazine version is out if you want one.Saturday, October 12, 2002Here's what I played on the radio last night:1. Residents - Constantinople 2. Har Mar Superstar - Brand New Day 3. NY Dolls - Personality Crisis 4. Birthday Party - Big Jesus Trash Can 5. Subtonix - Berlin in 1939 6. Swans - Celebrity Lifestyle 7. Roxy Music - Love is the Drug 8. Numbers - Too Cool to say Hi 9. Champagne Kiss - Cement is blue 10. Point Line Plane - Code De-Code 11. Germs - Forming 12. Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster (I sang this, actually) 13. Guyana Punch Line - Tears on the Backpack 14. Men's Recovery Project - Vote Fraud on the Moon Base 15. Comet Gain - Why I try to Look so Bad 16. JonnyX and the Groadies - Monolith of War 17. Joy Division - Interzone 18. Young People - Going 19. Le Shok - Death Drug / Do the Dramatic 20. Skinny Puppy - The Killing Game 21. Nate Denver's Neck - Earf Slugger 22. Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater - Metal Gods 23. Huggy Bear - Pansy Twist 24. Melt Banana - Iguana in Trouble 25. Love Life - Sweet Nocturne 26. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Miles Away 27. Swell Maps - Let's Build a Car 28. Growing - Dry Drunk on Woman 29. The Cure - In Between Days 30. Total Shutdown - Fighting Witches 31. Tracy + The Plastics - Arcade Suicide 32. Angel Hair - Stigmata Martyr (Bauhaus cover) 33. The Need - (I forget title, track 8 on The Need is Dead) 34. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods 35. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Brompton Oratory 36. David Bowie - Oh You Pretty Things I tried to play The Formless as well, but I couldn't get the tape player to work. sorry Chelsea and Brendan! Saturday, October 12, 2002It was really good to see Kill Me Tomorrow and Love Life last night. Two really terrific bands. There is going to be an interview with KMT in the 2nd issue of Sincere Brutality magazine, which I must work on right now...Friday, October 11, 2002The show tonight was fantastic. I'm not sure why Point Line Plane decided to start their set by throwing water in my face from the stage... we'll see what kind of review they get in the next issue of Sincere Brutality!Janet Pants Danse Theater are three women from LA, including K8T, the singer of Young People. They do really neat performance art, dance. I love it becuase it's so different than what I'm used to seeing at shows. I was mesmerized by the way they would move their bodies and they picked great music to go along with their act. It was a pleasure to see The Formless again. Yeow! Tuesday, October 8, 2002Tonight Isis is playing with my favorite: Thrones at the Blackbird. Should be great.Thursday El Guapo, The Formless, Point Line Plane, and the Janet Pants Dans Theater are perfroming at the blackbird. All fantastic, fantastic. Friday Love Life and Kill Me Tomorrow. What a great week! Saturday, October 5, 2002playlist for last night:(oh, I got about an extra half hour because I showed up early and they were ready to pass over the reigns) Kids of widney High "Every Girl is My Girlfriend" Fagatron "Asskickatron" Mommy and Daddy "Permed Past Her Prime" Screamers "In a Better World" Boxleitner "Hot" Le Shok "122 Hours of Fear" (screamers cover) Casiotone for the Painfully Alone "We Have Mice" Crack: We Are Rock "Animal Trap" and "Hooker Leg" Hiretsukan "Creeping Death" (metallica cover) Tracy and the Plastics "000!" Kill Me Tomorrow "I Require Chocolate" Popeye Soundtrack "Everything is Food" Monitr Batss "Spread Your Legs and Release the Bats" Ojorojo "Track 2" Point Line Plane "Open YR Mindlight" Quails "don't Do That" Pop Group "Trap" Yellow Swans "Stop Me" The 1985 Lords of Lightspeed Limp Wrist "Punk Ass Queers" Flux Information Sciences "Punish or Be Damned" (screamers cover) Hudson Bell "The Other Side" and I ended with Morrissey's "Yes, I am Blind" Tuesday, October 1, 2002I'm still pretty much off-line. I've been writing a lot, but can't really be online long enough to post anything. apparently, the cable modem is coming in on Sunday and I'll resume. sorry for the long delay. the magazine is coming together well.Saturday, September 28, 2002tonight kicked ass. I djed at the pirate radio station. here is what I played (not in this order):Subtonix "Ashtray Girl" Joy Division "Warsaw" Jawbreaker "Sister" Men's Recovery Project "New Talking Sausage" Suicide "Rocket USA" Sightings "Cuckoo" Bright Eyes "I Wanna Lover I don't have to Love" p:ano "All of November, most of October" David Bowie "Hang on to Yourself" Young People "Rich Bitch" Wolf Eyes "Burn Your House Down" Mecca Normal "What About the Boy?" Numbers "Too Cool to Say Hi" Flipper "Shed No Tears" Total Shutdown "Top Gun" Glass Candy "Nite Nurses" JonnyX and the Groadies "Organ Failure" and "Crushed by Machinery" Neon King Kong "Mix up the Mix" (on the wrong speed) The Vanishing "Off the Floor" Black Man White Man Dead Man "D.I.Y. Suicide" Hopefully I'll be there again on next Friday 9-10 at 96.7 in Portland. rock on! Friday, September 20, 2002The house show was *hott* last night. Both literally and figuratively. A band from California got added to the bill last minute, Kenji. Supposedly it featured Steve Aoki from Dim Mak records, but since I've never met him, I have no idea if that was the truth. Pretty traditional basement hardcore, but it always feels good live.Arroyo Secco, which I am probably mis-spelling were more of the same, but again, it felt fantastic in the basement with the Christmas lights surrounded by friends. Now that I've been more social and making it a point to talk to people at shows, they've suddenly become so much more fun. JonnyX and the Groadies were fabulous as usual. I could honestly see that band once a week (and I often do) and be totally content with it. The very short and very exciting set just gets the job done. Last night there was even crowd surfing and since I am one of the bigger guys, I get most of the responsibilty of holding people up. It's fucking fun, though. I love it. I got a promo of the new Bellini last night and it seems pretty good so I believe I'll go to the show. I've been going through this weird phase where I really hate going to shows outside of NE Portland. I guess I have a lot of pride. If I started a band, I think "North Portland" would be in the name. I just have so much fun at house shows and at bars, I end up feeling like shit. Particularly with how crowded the show tonight will end up being. I haven't seen 31 Knots in a while, and they are opening, so it should be worth it. Tomorrow night should be an amazing show with Q and Not U and Science of Yabra and the not so great Dame Fate at the Meow Meow. I haven't been to the Meow Meow in probably two months or something. Monday, September 16, 2002I'm having internet connection issues right now. I've been writing a lot of reviews and hope to post them soon. am putting together the second issue of the magazine. very busy boy.Tomorrow night is the Monitorbats show as well as a show earlier of Tragedy. A good day. Friday, September 13, 2002Hooray. About sixteen new reviews posted!Tuesday, September 10, 2002Finally a site update! I added some new reviews to Alex's section. go check it out.Sunday, September 8, 2002I haven't gone to very many shows lately. Just Sightings/Monitor Bats/Nice Nice on Thursday. It was a great show but I got really ill a few songs into Sightings and had to take off. I'm working on getting some new reviews together as well as some reviews by Alex posted. Bare with me.Wednesday, September 4, 2002Oh my lord. I probably have two hundred cds piled around my desk demanding reviews. I'm going to have to filter through them and figure out what I'm actually going to write about.Got back from Austin yesterday and really need to start hot-wiring issue two of the zine together as well as update the reviews. I'll do so soon. Thursday, August 29, 2002I think I forgot to mention on here that I am in Austin on vacation, thus no real updates. I'm having a good time. Mostly swimming.Went to a club called Emos last night and saw some Emo bands. ha ha. Actually, Planesmistakenforstars headlined and I was extremely disappointed with how arrogant the singer was on stage. I enjoyed it for moments at a time, but overall wasn't that pleased. No really good shows that I'm into while I'm here, but then, that's Austin for you. Gonna see some metal bands tonight and some garage rock bands this weekend, but I could take or lose them for the most part. It'll be nice to get back to Portland in time to see Sightings. Tuesday, August 20, 2002good show alert!Subject: PANTHER! SLEETMUTE! COLLAPSE! The "musical acts" are: Panther! (charlie from The Planet The) Sleetmute! (???) Collapse!(some dude from NYC) at Disjecta, Thursday August 22nd immediately before the Lost Film Festival. This show starts at 9pm SHARP!!! No PDX punktime delay of 2+ hours...it all starts at 9PM. WARNING: there is a slight cover charge. peace n' love, NNN Saturday, August 17, 2002I saw Enon tonight. they were pretty boring.Thursday, August 15, 2002I've been working on distroing in the last couple of days. there should be a site update by the end of the weekend. sorry for the delay in new content. You should get the zine and read the new interviews.Monday, August 12, 2002The Disjecta shows were amazing this weekend. That is some space. It seems to me that it's bigger in floor space than the Meow Meow, yet the shows really do feel like house shows. I think it used to be a church, but now some kids live in it (I believe), have art shows and a variety of interesting performances.There's no way of getting around it. Denver's Friends Forever were the highlight of the entire weekend. They travel around in a VW Bus, which they actually play in. The drummer plays inside the bus with smoke machine pouring out smoke, christmas lights, and red laser beams cutting through the fog. The guitarist started out playing in the passenger seat of the bus but soon burst out and started assaulting the crowd. Meanwhile the keyboardist put on a jacket covered with black jacks, lit the fuse and started doing cartwheels as the fireworks exploded all over his coat. It was total madness with stuff getting thrown, the guitarist crawled underneath me between my legs... I won't even try to explain it, just go look at their website. Happily, the cops never stopped the madness and it didn't go on too long enough to really anger the neighbors. If Friends Forever come to your town and you miss them, you are making a huge mistake. For the spectacle alone it is worth whether you like the music or not (which is mostly just loud, crazy, repetitive, prog-scrogging stuff). Most of the other bands that played were from Portland (and a couple from Olympia). Yellow Swans were a lot more together then the last time I saw them (which has been about six months as I keep missing them). Pete controls the drum machine and a lot of noisy electronic gadgets while Gabe goes absolutely crazy on the guitar. They dedicated their set to "Paradise" but I felt more like I was being submerged in a submarine than on a beach in the South Pacific. Being submerged in water is not paradise at all to me. The other big thing of the evening was Monitor Bats, who are most definitely one of my top favorite Portland bands. They had a couple of friends holding huge signs, one saying "Monitor Bats" and the other "666 is the number of the beach"(keeping with the portland tropics theme). These girls were up to no good with their sign waving (these signs were about 3 feet tall by 5 feet wide or even bigger), and soon the crowd was being pummelled with the signs and they started flying around the room. Guitarist Nathan (who is also in The Gossip and Boy Pussy USA) would pull out a Monitor Bats 7" between songs and yank out the vinyl and smash it on the ground until bits of broken records were also being thrown around the room. Then the beer and water started to fly. The band had tape all over their faces. The drummer is really fantastic. Nate Preston plays saxaphone and very soon, he was all over the crowd as well, losing his microphone from the sax for minutes at a time but continuing to bleat his soul out the nasty instrument. The Planet The played after Monitor Bats. They are really great, but a song or two into their set I realized "this is the most straight forward band I've seen in a while" and I got all disorientated. I was starting to feel really tired (I had been there about 5 hours at this point) and had to ride my bike home so I rode feeling exhilirated (though I almost got hit by a cop on a high speed pursuit through the residential area). Got home, watched Short Circuit and ate Tofuti Cuties. Sunday, I got a late start to Disjecta and probably would have missed it all-together if Jane hadn't called and woke me up from my nap and then was kind enough to come pick my lazy ass up. We arrived in time to see the last few minutes of my friend's Julianne and Joe's band the ghosts of women who haunt cliffs. It's really unfortunate that I missed most of the set as apparently Julianne sang earlier. Piano and drums having a crazy prog face-off. I got kind of nervous and shy because I saw this girl that I had my eye on the day before at the show. She was very cute and dressed kind of like an old lady, but not in a super hip way, but just in a picnic plaid summer dress way. She had a backpack on and her bicycle helmet attached to the strap. She seemed to be there alone and most of the time seemed nervous and like she was looking for a friend that she was supposed to meet. I later saw her talking to one or two people, but mostly hung out alone. I was with Jane, Shana and a new friend of Shana's named Kat who was from San Antonio, so I tried to get the scoop since I'll be in San Antonio two weeks from today, but she didn't seem to have much information to give. We kept going outside inbetween bands and then not hearing when the next one started and missed a lot because of it. I saw the last few minutes of Charlie from The Planet The's solo project Panther, which was more comedy routine performance art than music. He's quite a character. There was a performance art troupe who showed an old film about a chimpanzee. The person narrating the film live did it all in German and it sounded very funny. The next real highlight of the weekend was Sleetmute, a band consisting of Nate Preston (sax: Monitor Bats) playing guitar with the drummer of Monitor Bats and two girls I don't know on second guitar and bass. Their music is incredibly discordinant, crazy, and a lot of fun to dance to, particularly when the lights went down low. I drank pink lemonade and felt the best I've felt in awhile. I apologize to Disjecta if I was supposed to pay for the lemonade, I really thought it was water when I poured it. I really wanted to see Experimental Dental School but there was no way I was going to sit through a band that someone described to me as "alt country meets yo la tengo" and then the Shins, who I would like to punch in the mouth for selling their song to one of the most evil corporations in the world. I'm not even sure why they would be invited to play an indie show like that. It definitely brought a different, totally fucking gross and annoying element to the venue. Indie pop kids = my enemy. Besides, The Shins are so fucking boring. Anyway, it sucks to have missed Ex. Dental School, but it just wasn't worth it to me. Jane, Shana and I went and got take out from Vita and watched Mr. Show. I unloaded a lot of zines at the shows. I left them on a table for people to take and it was really cool that the first day they were all gone by the end of the show and were close to gone by the time I left the second day. I saw people sneaking peeks inside the pages between bands and pointing and showing things to their friends. I saw people in bands reading about themselves in the pages and the few people that actually know who I am said nice things. I get the other 2800 copies of the zine tomorrow. Gonna rent a car and get them all over town. It should be quite an exhausting task. Sunday, August 11, 2002I posted 11 new reviews. I am one busy baby boy.Sunday, August 11, 2002-Last night was probably one of the most fun shows I've been to in a long time. There were props, crazy costumes, assaulting guitarists in soft outfits and fireworks.-At the show I distributed the print zine. It was really flattering seeing so many people grabbing copies and flipping through the pages. The few people that know me said nice things and it made all the work feel very worth it. Friday, August 9, 2002I got the first batch of the magazines back today. they look good. Now time to start distributing.Saturday, August 3, 2002Did I mention that the zine has been sent to the printer? Now I wait for its return. Hopefully tomorrow I'll work on the site some and post some new reviews.Tomorrow night is Oops the Tour! hot damn. Sunday, July 28, 2002I am getting close to done with laying out the zine. just have the cd reviews section left. I get the feeling it will be the hardest of all to lay out.Anna moved into a new place today. It makes me kind of sad, but also it'll give us both more space to get work done. If avocados weren't vegan, I wouldn't be either. end of story. I'd miss them much more than cheese. Saturday, July 27, 2002I haven't updated in several days because I have spending all of my time finishing editing and now laying out the zine. I have intentions of sending the masters to the printer on Monday evening. I am still about $1500 short, but um... well, I don't know how I'll make it work, but I'm optimistic.Tuesday, July 23, 2002-I worked all today on the zine. I didn't even go to work.Saturday, July 20, 2002-just posted a few new reviews.-I have stacks of CDs on the floor that I need to sort through. If only I could make money at this thing, surely it could be a full time job. Saturday, July 20, 2002-The show last night was so much fun. Necktie Party were incredible and I think they played every song they knew. Jeff took a lot of pictures. Jonny X and the Groadies were amazing as usual and kids totally went off. Then we did a photo shoot with the band hanging out in Nicole's bedroom. I can't wait to see how the pictures came out. Then Sour Grapes played a "secret show" and it was fun. ok bye.-Oh wait, my friend Josh Hooten got married today. I went. Thursday, July 18, 2002 this will be good. Thursday, July 18, 2002-Holy mother, I haven't updated in a while.-Sunday night I went to the Against Me! house show in North Portland. It was off the hook... probably 200 people there.. so many that there were more people outside in the lawn then could fit in the basement where the band was playing. Everyone sang along louder than even the band was playing and there was so much sweat pouring and it reminded me of why I ever got into punk rock in the first place. There were some creepy guys there being a bit too aggressive with their "moshing" but whatever. -Monday night Anna and I drove up to see Against Me! again in Olympia. This show was even better as Oly shows tend to be a lot more fun and enthusiastic. Necktie Party also played and they seriously impressed me. I would love to feature them in my zine but sadly, their last show is tomorrow night. After the bands, Rich Mackin, his friend from Boston Rosie and Al Burian of Burn Collector (and Milemarker) did readings of their writing. -Tuesday I saw Strike Anywhere at an Eagles lodge, a place that as far as I know, has never had a show before in Portland. I'm hoping they never will again as it totally sucked. Full of mean looking biker dudes that wouldn't let kids dance, literally. They stood in the middle of the floor (there weren't more than 70 people there) and when kids would start dancing, they would tap their shoulders and demand "no moshing". It was disgusting. Strike Anywhere was really good though. -Then I went with my friend Dayna who was visiting from Brooklyn to see Federation X, who have apparently been a well loved garage band from Bellingham for a long time but I didn't really know much about them. They were pretty good, but much more impressive was one of the opening bands 400 Blows. Heavy, heavy guitar and drums with a wicked singer. I loved it. -Last night, no show. Sunday, July 14, 2002-Two new reviews posted.-Yesterday I saw Hiretsukan play. They were amazing, though I think it would have been better suited for a house show rather than the Meow Meow. Against Me! were the big headliners but we didn't end up staying that long (as they are playing a house show tonight). There were a lot of travelling patch-punks hanging outside the club drinking beer and it really made me angry. So angry that I had to leave. I couldn't believe they would jeopardize our club like that. fuckers. -I did a workshop on "interview techniques" at the PDX Zine Symposium and it went pretty well. Today I am doing another on Online Zines (with the assistance of Jack Saturn) Thursday, July 11, 2002-Haven't updated in a couple of days. the deadline is coming fast for the print zine so I've been busy like a bumblebee getting stuff together for that.Sunday, July 7, 2002-I just updated the playlist. I guess I am going to do that about every other week. It seems to make more sense that way.Sunday, July 7, 2002-I just read in Copper Press issue 11 that The Need is no more. That makes me very sad.Sunday, July 7, 2002-we saw a very sad French film yesterday afternoon called something like "The Town is Quiet". Then we were going to go take pictures of cats but got sucked into the bookstore. I bought a book with pictures of cats doing weird things like talking on the phone.-tonight we are going to cirque du soleil courtesy of Anna's parents. I'm very curious about it. I hope to get a new playlist posted before then. Saturday, July 6, 2002-I added three new cd reviews. Someone unsubscribed from the email list. Pretty eventful day.Saturday, July 6, 2002oh yeah, I was given this by Majority Rule, so I'll write about it to:Pageninetynine / Majority Rule split (Magic Bullet Records) Saturday, July 6, 2002in the last week or so, this has collected:Suicide Note You're Not Looking So Good The Rise Signal to Noise Remembering Never She Looks So Good in Red (Ferret Music Corp) Time in Malta A Second Engine (Equal Vision) QUIX*O*TIC Mortal Mirror (Kill Rock Stars) The Nazis from Mars self titled lp on cdr Antischism self titled Kylesa self titled (Prank Records) The Rum Diary Mileage 7" (Springman Records) Tim McBride Running Naked Through Your Yard (Moodkiller Records) Poulain With Fingers Crossed (Soft Serve Records) Napalmed Never mind the MSBR, here’s the.... (Napalmed) The Record Time The Always (My Automation Designer Recordings) Rescue Volume Plus Volume (Dead Droid) Katja Lemmata (self released) Ben Weasel Fidatevi (Panic Button / Lookout) Gina Young Intractable (28 Days Records) The 4-Squares Steve’s Hamper (Quincy Shanks) Under a Dying Sun self titled (Substandard) Peralta self titled (Atarms Mechanics) Rachel Jacobs Object of Affection (Octopus Head) The Mass self titled (Whole Enchilada Records) The Velvet Teen The Great Best February & Comasynthesis eps (Slowdance) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones A Jackknife to a Swan (Side One Dummy) Nerf Herder American Cheese (Honest Dons) Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving (Sad Robot) Friday, July 5, 2002-we went to the show but it was just too crowded and we were too antsy. Instead Anna and I had a lovely evening of riding our bikes all over, dodging fireworks in the streets and enjoying the sound of explosions everywhere. We rode to the Broadway Bridge and sat in the middle, watching the downtown fireworks and I thought about how detached Americans are when they celebrate.Thursday, July 4, 2002-I am about to head over to Fast Forward for the show. Jonny X and the Groadies six year anniversary. Along with Thrones, Spaceboy (from SF) and a new PDX band called Sour Grapes. I heard rumors that Unsounds were going to play as well. Should be a lot of fun. I hope the kids with the fireworks outside our house don't end up setting our house on fire.Thursday, July 4, 2002-just added about 8 new reviews by Alex. |
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