Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Anyone like Coldplay?
Do you like Coldplay as much as I do? Get it while it's hot. I haven't even listened to the new album yet, other than what gets airplay. I just downloaded it and then decided to post this.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Bad Merger(s)
Ticketmaster and Live Nation to merge?!
Great... just great... ticketmaster was annoying enough already. I agree with the Wired magazine article. It's a bad idea. But I already know how much tickemaster values my opinion. Looks like I won't be going to hear live music anytime soon.
Great... just great... ticketmaster was annoying enough already. I agree with the Wired magazine article. It's a bad idea. But I already know how much tickemaster values my opinion. Looks like I won't be going to hear live music anytime soon.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
It's the small things
Aww... first off, that's a song by an artist I really liked in bygone days. I hadn't thought of it in ages. Possibly years. But today, the small things refers to how easily I'm amused. I'm sitting here in my over-stimulating environs... tv, computer, music, lights and sounds and smells, surrounded by stuff I SHOULD be doing. The laundry basket is sitting a few feet away from me. It's full of clothes to be folded and/or sorted and put away. Bedding should be changed. My room should be neatened up. But here I sit... in front of the computer. Choosing songs to use as ring-tones on my cellular telephone. It makes me very happy, really, to sort through my music... to rediscover, to get lost in, some of this music. Obviously I like it all. But then I got down to the N's. Nirvana, you see. It's so simple, really, that I shouldn't blog about it. But I really got the giggles when I realized what a good "ring-tone" 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' would be. After all... I'll edit out the first part and begin with hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello.
Good-bye.
Good-bye.
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Last night I enjoyed some live music at ETG by:
http://www.eqlateral.com
http://www.myspace.com/djmuaddeep
http://www.myspace.com/babajames
and my new acquaintance
http://www.djmix.net/Crispy/
I discovered a venue (Electric Tea Garden) that I'd long been curious about, along with some good music and delicious oolong. My friends and I bar-hopped a bit to keep our 'spirits' up and then returned to ETG for more music. I think fun was had by all. Then, I was tired and left for home.
The drive home was uneventful. Once home, things were slightly less so. I'd planned to quietly enter the house (after all it was after 1am and I was in West Seattle) via the back door after following the walk by the side of the house. Well, when I opened the gate, a racket was cause by the recycle bin which had been left in an odd position. The lid of the bin caught the gate as I pushed it open and rolled a little bit and hit the fence. This caused the barky dog upstairs to do what he does best. Can you guess?
Then I strolled, or perhaps sauntered, (sulked?) to the back door with no more excitement. But I was a little ticked that somebody had left the recycle bin blocking the gate. Then I was ticked to find out that the lights were on downstairs. And nobody was using them. So, fine, I turned off the lights. Then I got to the bathroom, which was handy. Also handy was the fact that the toilet was already flushing. Nobody was using it either! I guess it woulda run all night if I hadn't gotten home to jiggle the handle. So fine, I jiggled the handle. Well, after I, well, you know.
Finally I made it to my bedroom. As I was stowing my keys, wallet, etc. I was dismayed to see that I'd spent more than I thought over the course of the evening. I thought I still had a $20 left but it wasn't in my wallet. After pulling the miscellaneous bills out of my pockets, I still didn't have the $20. So I put what I had back in my wallet.
By that time I was irked and wired from the last 50 feet home and couldn't fall right to sleep so I checked my e-mail, browsed the web for the latest and greatest, and finally was able to wind down. Slept in way too long this morning. I guess I'll go get my movie at the libary tomorrow instead of today. Maybe I'll be better rested and in a better mood tomorrow, too. Okay, thanks for listening.
PS - I found the $20 in the pockets I had previously checked. Somehow it was hiding in there. Woo!
http://www.eqlateral.com
http://www.myspace.com/djmuaddeep
http://www.myspace.com/babajames
and my new acquaintance
http://www.djmix.net/Crispy/
I discovered a venue (Electric Tea Garden) that I'd long been curious about, along with some good music and delicious oolong. My friends and I bar-hopped a bit to keep our 'spirits' up and then returned to ETG for more music. I think fun was had by all. Then, I was tired and left for home.
The drive home was uneventful. Once home, things were slightly less so. I'd planned to quietly enter the house (after all it was after 1am and I was in West Seattle) via the back door after following the walk by the side of the house. Well, when I opened the gate, a racket was cause by the recycle bin which had been left in an odd position. The lid of the bin caught the gate as I pushed it open and rolled a little bit and hit the fence. This caused the barky dog upstairs to do what he does best. Can you guess?
Then I strolled, or perhaps sauntered, (sulked?) to the back door with no more excitement. But I was a little ticked that somebody had left the recycle bin blocking the gate. Then I was ticked to find out that the lights were on downstairs. And nobody was using them. So, fine, I turned off the lights. Then I got to the bathroom, which was handy. Also handy was the fact that the toilet was already flushing. Nobody was using it either! I guess it woulda run all night if I hadn't gotten home to jiggle the handle. So fine, I jiggled the handle. Well, after I, well, you know.
Finally I made it to my bedroom. As I was stowing my keys, wallet, etc. I was dismayed to see that I'd spent more than I thought over the course of the evening. I thought I still had a $20 left but it wasn't in my wallet. After pulling the miscellaneous bills out of my pockets, I still didn't have the $20. So I put what I had back in my wallet.
By that time I was irked and wired from the last 50 feet home and couldn't fall right to sleep so I checked my e-mail, browsed the web for the latest and greatest, and finally was able to wind down. Slept in way too long this morning. I guess I'll go get my movie at the libary tomorrow instead of today. Maybe I'll be better rested and in a better mood tomorrow, too. Okay, thanks for listening.
PS - I found the $20 in the pockets I had previously checked. Somehow it was hiding in there. Woo!
Monday, July 16, 2001
Finally I'm getting around to posting this note about my first Radiohead concert ever, and my second-ever experience at the (Columbia River) gorge amphitheater. The band's origin is Oxford, England. Did you all know I won the concert tickets? Thank you 107.7 The End from one of your loyal listeners!
It had been about 10 years since I experienced the gorge. It's more permanent now, with sidewalks and stuff, but it's still a great outdoor venue.
I honestly don't know any other die-hard Radiohead fans, personally, but my cousin said he'd like to go along (free ticket and all) so that's what ended up happening. It was General Admission seating so rather than deal with the crowd we just sat uphill from everyone near the very back. The concert was great. As is typical for a concert around here, there were a few moshers down in front of the stage. I avoid that scene like the plague.
From our higher vantage point we could see the Columbia down the slope and the gorge as it wound around and about. The sunset was an added bonus to the whole scene. It DID get chilly after dark, though.
Anyway, our seating worked out well. We both forgot earplugs so being back there it was just right. They had 2 huge display screens on each side of the stage which sometimes rotated between the band members but mostly focused on my man Thom (lead singer). They had developed a completely different sound for a couple of the 'live' song versions. All around they are a good *live* band and my cousin actually liked it better than the polished sound on the CD's.
A short ways into the concert they dedicated a song to us 'up the hill on the grass' (behind everyone). You'd think I'd remember WHICH song it was, wouldn't you...?!
At the end they responded properly to the crowds cheering and came back out onstage for a couple more numbers.
Then... *sigh*
we had to leave.
The End has removed the link from their website, but you can still listen to an interview with Thom Yorke, the lead singer:
It had been about 10 years since I experienced the gorge. It's more permanent now, with sidewalks and stuff, but it's still a great outdoor venue.
I honestly don't know any other die-hard Radiohead fans, personally, but my cousin said he'd like to go along (free ticket and all) so that's what ended up happening. It was General Admission seating so rather than deal with the crowd we just sat uphill from everyone near the very back. The concert was great. As is typical for a concert around here, there were a few moshers down in front of the stage. I avoid that scene like the plague.
From our higher vantage point we could see the Columbia down the slope and the gorge as it wound around and about. The sunset was an added bonus to the whole scene. It DID get chilly after dark, though.
Anyway, our seating worked out well. We both forgot earplugs so being back there it was just right. They had 2 huge display screens on each side of the stage which sometimes rotated between the band members but mostly focused on my man Thom (lead singer). They had developed a completely different sound for a couple of the 'live' song versions. All around they are a good *live* band and my cousin actually liked it better than the polished sound on the CD's.
A short ways into the concert they dedicated a song to us 'up the hill on the grass' (behind everyone). You'd think I'd remember WHICH song it was, wouldn't you...?!
At the end they responded properly to the crowds cheering and came back out onstage for a couple more numbers.
Then... *sigh*
we had to leave.
The End has removed the link from their website, but you can still listen to an interview with Thom Yorke, the lead singer:
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