Jones Beach Amphitheater. Wantaugh, NY
SET 2
Rock N' Roll>
2001>
Tweezer->
Cities->
The Wedge
Wading In The Velvet Sea
Character Zero
Encore
Sleeping Monkey
Tweezer Reprise
Notes:
on a friday. a perfectly flowing liquid set amidst a torrential downpour.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Grateful Dead - Oakland Coliseum Arena (Feb. 17th, 1979)
On this night in 1979, Keith & Donna Jean performed for the last time with the Grateful Dead.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
"Narconomics": How the Drug Cartels Operate Like Wal-Mart & McDonald's
Fresh Air with Tom Wainwright (journalist for The Economist)
When Tom Wainwright became the Mexico correspondent for The Economist in 2010, he found himself covering the country's biggest businesses, including the tequila trade, the oil industry and the commerce of illegal drugs.
"I found that one week I'd be writing about the car business, and the next week I'd be writing about the drugs business," Wainwright tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I gradually came to see that the two actually were perhaps more similar than people normally recognize."
During the three years he spent in Mexico and Central and South America, Wainwright discovered that the cartels that control the region's drug trade use business models that are surprisingly similar to those of big-box stores and franchises. For instance, they have exclusive relationships with their "suppliers" (the farmers who grow the coca plants) that allow the cartels to keep the price of cocaine stable even when crop production is disrupted.
"The theory is that the cartels in the area have what economists call a 'monopsony,' [which is] like a monopoly on buying in the area," Wainwright says. "This rang a bell with me because it's something that people very often say about Wal-Mart."
"The choice that I think we face isn't really a choice between a world without drugs and a world with drugs," he says. "I think the choice we face really is between a world where drugs are controlled by governments and prescribed by pharmacists and doctors, and a world where they're dealt by the mafia, and given that choice, I think the former sounds more appealing."
On how the narcotics supply chain is similar to the Wal-Mart supply chain
They say that in certain industries, Wal-Mart is effectively the only buyer in the industry. So if there's some disruption to supply, let's say the harvest fails for apples or something like that, apple growers aren't able to increase their prices because Wal-Mart is the only buyer and they say, "Well, sorry, but this is our price and if you don't want to sell to us, well, tough." So the sellers have to carry on selling it at the same price as before. It seemed that something similar might be going on in the cocaine industry. ...
I was looking at the supply chain of cocaine. I went down to Bolivia, and I went to visit some of the terraces down there in the Andes where the coca leaf is grown. The coca leaf is the raw ingredient for cocaine, and all of the world's cocaine is grown down there in the Andes in either Bolivia, Colombia or Peru. So I went down there, and I read about all the incredible work that's being done down there to try to disrupt the cocaine supply line, and you'll have seen footage probably of airplanes and helicopters dumping tons of weed-killer on these Andean terraces in Colombia, for instance. They've done lots of work on this and they've done a fairly effective job at making it harder to grow coca leaf. They destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares over the years, and it has made the lives of cartels more difficult on the surface, at least. And yet, I looked at the price of cocaine in the United States, and it has hardly budged. You can go back decades, and the prices remain roughly $100 per pure gram.
On why an increase in the price of coca leaf doesn't change the cost of cocaine
When you look at the economics of the supply chain, you begin to see why actually even if you could increase the price of that coca leaf, it's doubtful that it would have very much impact on the final price of cocaine in the U.S. or in Europe. ... To make, for instance, a kilo of cocaine, you need about a ton of coca leaf, and that ton, once it's all dried out, in a country like Colombia will fetch perhaps $400. Now, the kilo of the United States will fetch about $100,000. So let's say you're incredibly successful in managing to raise the price of coca leaf, and you manage to double it, to $800. If you then manage to transfer all of that extra cost onto the consumer, that final kilo of cocaine is only going to cost now $100,400. In other words, you can double the price of coca leaf and you increase the price of the final product, cocaine, by less than 1 percent. ... We're putting all this effort into raising the price of coca leaf, when in fact that's only a small part of the cost of the final product.
On how the Mexican gang 'The Zetas' franchise
The Zetas are one of Mexico's biggest drug cartels, and they've got a reputation for being one of the nastiest ones, so when you see pictures of people who've been beheaded or hung up from bridges, these are often the guys who are responsible. And while I was in Mexico, the Zetas expanded more quickly than any other cartel. It was extraordinary. Originally they came from the northeast of Mexico, but within a very short space of time, they spread across all of Mexico and in fact down into Central America as well. So I got to thinking about how they'd done this, and when you look at the way that they spread, it seems that what they do is that they go to local areas and they find out who the local criminals are, people who do the drug dealing and extortion and all the other kinds of crime, and they offer them a crime, they say, "OK, you can use our brand, you can call yourself the Zetas, just like us," and they give them, believe it or not, baseball caps with embroidered logos and they give them T-shirts with their logo on and they train them in how to use weapons sometimes, and in return the local criminals give the Zetas a share of all of the money that they get from their criminal activity. In other words: It's exactly like the kind of franchising model that many other well-known companies use.
And it comes with all the same advantages and disadvantages [of franchising]. One of the big advantages is that it has allowed the Zetas to grow much more quickly. One of the disadvantages though, and this is something you often see in the legitimate franchising business, is that the franchisees often start to quarrel among each other, and the trouble is that the interest of these franchisees, the local criminals, aren't very well-aligned with the interests of the main company. Because as far as the main company is concerned — and this applies whether it's the Zetas or McDonald's — if you've got more branches, more franchises in a local area, that means more income for the main company, because they take their money as a slice of the income of the local franchisees. But the local franchisees have totally different motives. They want to be, if possible, the only ones in the area. They want as few branches as possible. And so you've had very often cases of franchisees suing the main brand over what they call "encroachment" — in other words, when the main brand has too many branches in the same area.
On personnel issues in cartels
This was a guy ... who I went to see in El Salvador, and he's called Carlos Mojica Lechuga, who is the leader of one of the two big street gangs in El Salvador. There are two of them — one [that he's the head of] called Barrio Dieciocho, or 18th Street Gang, as most people call it in English, and the other called the Mara Salvatrucha [MS-13] — and both of these are effectively transnational corporations, really. They make their livings dealing drugs and with extortion, principally, those are the two main business lines that they have. So I thought it would be interesting to go and speak to this guy and find out how he ran his company. So I went to see him, and he's in jail at the moment, which doesn't seem to be stopping him from running his business in any way. ... We sat down and we started talking business, and it really turned out that a lot of his complaints were just like the kind of complaints that I'd heard many times before from the business people. He complained about managing his staff, he complained about competition with his rivals, he complained about his image in the international media. It was really strangely reminiscent of speaking to a kind of frustrated midlevel manager.
When Tom Wainwright became the Mexico correspondent for The Economist in 2010, he found himself covering the country's biggest businesses, including the tequila trade, the oil industry and the commerce of illegal drugs.
"I found that one week I'd be writing about the car business, and the next week I'd be writing about the drugs business," Wainwright tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I gradually came to see that the two actually were perhaps more similar than people normally recognize."
During the three years he spent in Mexico and Central and South America, Wainwright discovered that the cartels that control the region's drug trade use business models that are surprisingly similar to those of big-box stores and franchises. For instance, they have exclusive relationships with their "suppliers" (the farmers who grow the coca plants) that allow the cartels to keep the price of cocaine stable even when crop production is disrupted.
"The theory is that the cartels in the area have what economists call a 'monopsony,' [which is] like a monopoly on buying in the area," Wainwright says. "This rang a bell with me because it's something that people very often say about Wal-Mart."
"The choice that I think we face isn't really a choice between a world without drugs and a world with drugs," he says. "I think the choice we face really is between a world where drugs are controlled by governments and prescribed by pharmacists and doctors, and a world where they're dealt by the mafia, and given that choice, I think the former sounds more appealing."
They say that in certain industries, Wal-Mart is effectively the only buyer in the industry. So if there's some disruption to supply, let's say the harvest fails for apples or something like that, apple growers aren't able to increase their prices because Wal-Mart is the only buyer and they say, "Well, sorry, but this is our price and if you don't want to sell to us, well, tough." So the sellers have to carry on selling it at the same price as before. It seemed that something similar might be going on in the cocaine industry. ...
I was looking at the supply chain of cocaine. I went down to Bolivia, and I went to visit some of the terraces down there in the Andes where the coca leaf is grown. The coca leaf is the raw ingredient for cocaine, and all of the world's cocaine is grown down there in the Andes in either Bolivia, Colombia or Peru. So I went down there, and I read about all the incredible work that's being done down there to try to disrupt the cocaine supply line, and you'll have seen footage probably of airplanes and helicopters dumping tons of weed-killer on these Andean terraces in Colombia, for instance. They've done lots of work on this and they've done a fairly effective job at making it harder to grow coca leaf. They destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares over the years, and it has made the lives of cartels more difficult on the surface, at least. And yet, I looked at the price of cocaine in the United States, and it has hardly budged. You can go back decades, and the prices remain roughly $100 per pure gram.
On why an increase in the price of coca leaf doesn't change the cost of cocaine
When you look at the economics of the supply chain, you begin to see why actually even if you could increase the price of that coca leaf, it's doubtful that it would have very much impact on the final price of cocaine in the U.S. or in Europe. ... To make, for instance, a kilo of cocaine, you need about a ton of coca leaf, and that ton, once it's all dried out, in a country like Colombia will fetch perhaps $400. Now, the kilo of the United States will fetch about $100,000. So let's say you're incredibly successful in managing to raise the price of coca leaf, and you manage to double it, to $800. If you then manage to transfer all of that extra cost onto the consumer, that final kilo of cocaine is only going to cost now $100,400. In other words, you can double the price of coca leaf and you increase the price of the final product, cocaine, by less than 1 percent. ... We're putting all this effort into raising the price of coca leaf, when in fact that's only a small part of the cost of the final product.
On how the Mexican gang 'The Zetas' franchise
The Zetas are one of Mexico's biggest drug cartels, and they've got a reputation for being one of the nastiest ones, so when you see pictures of people who've been beheaded or hung up from bridges, these are often the guys who are responsible. And while I was in Mexico, the Zetas expanded more quickly than any other cartel. It was extraordinary. Originally they came from the northeast of Mexico, but within a very short space of time, they spread across all of Mexico and in fact down into Central America as well. So I got to thinking about how they'd done this, and when you look at the way that they spread, it seems that what they do is that they go to local areas and they find out who the local criminals are, people who do the drug dealing and extortion and all the other kinds of crime, and they offer them a crime, they say, "OK, you can use our brand, you can call yourself the Zetas, just like us," and they give them, believe it or not, baseball caps with embroidered logos and they give them T-shirts with their logo on and they train them in how to use weapons sometimes, and in return the local criminals give the Zetas a share of all of the money that they get from their criminal activity. In other words: It's exactly like the kind of franchising model that many other well-known companies use.
And it comes with all the same advantages and disadvantages [of franchising]. One of the big advantages is that it has allowed the Zetas to grow much more quickly. One of the disadvantages though, and this is something you often see in the legitimate franchising business, is that the franchisees often start to quarrel among each other, and the trouble is that the interest of these franchisees, the local criminals, aren't very well-aligned with the interests of the main company. Because as far as the main company is concerned — and this applies whether it's the Zetas or McDonald's — if you've got more branches, more franchises in a local area, that means more income for the main company, because they take their money as a slice of the income of the local franchisees. But the local franchisees have totally different motives. They want to be, if possible, the only ones in the area. They want as few branches as possible. And so you've had very often cases of franchisees suing the main brand over what they call "encroachment" — in other words, when the main brand has too many branches in the same area.
On personnel issues in cartels
This was a guy ... who I went to see in El Salvador, and he's called Carlos Mojica Lechuga, who is the leader of one of the two big street gangs in El Salvador. There are two of them — one [that he's the head of] called Barrio Dieciocho, or 18th Street Gang, as most people call it in English, and the other called the Mara Salvatrucha [MS-13] — and both of these are effectively transnational corporations, really. They make their livings dealing drugs and with extortion, principally, those are the two main business lines that they have. So I thought it would be interesting to go and speak to this guy and find out how he ran his company. So I went to see him, and he's in jail at the moment, which doesn't seem to be stopping him from running his business in any way. ... We sat down and we started talking business, and it really turned out that a lot of his complaints were just like the kind of complaints that I'd heard many times before from the business people. He complained about managing his staff, he complained about competition with his rivals, he complained about his image in the international media. It was really strangely reminiscent of speaking to a kind of frustrated midlevel manager.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Son Of Saul / Hail, Caesar
Friday afternoon double-feature at Keystone Arts Landmark.
Son of Saul:
"You betrayed those living for the dead."
Hail, Caesar!:
Low-tier Coen bros. Tiresome & Tedious.
Note: So cold. While filling up the gas tank my hand freezes to the handle -- only able to fill-up half-tank.
Son of Saul:
"You betrayed those living for the dead."
Hail, Caesar!:
Low-tier Coen bros. Tiresome & Tedious.
Note: So cold. While filling up the gas tank my hand freezes to the handle -- only able to fill-up half-tank.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Bruce Springsteen - As Dreams Don't Mean Nothing - A Night For the Vietnam Vets - Los Angeles (August 20th, 1981)
Big bussinessmen and political leaders failed to rally behind us," said Vietnam veteran Bobby Muller, speaking to about 15,000 remarkably attentive rock fans on August 20th at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. "And now it ultimately turns out to be the symbol of our generation – rock & roll – that brings us together. . . . This is the first step in ending the silence that has surrounded Vietnam."
To deafening applause, Muller, sitting center stage in a wheelchair, turned over the spotlight to Bruce Springsteen, the first of several rockers to play benefits for the veterans. Minutes earlier, Springsteen had introduced Muller with his own, terse, eloquent speech; now, he led the E Street Band into a dark, swelling melody and stepped to the mike to sing, "Long as I remember, the rain's been falling down. . . ." Creedence Clearwater Revival's eleven-year-old "Who'll Stop the Rain" was transformed into a majestic call to arms, and the next two songs deepended the mood: "Prove It All Night" was stripped of its usual joy, and Springsteen came down hard on the lines "If dreams came true, oh wouldn't it be nice/But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight." Then, without pause, he turned toward the two stage-side platforms full of veterans in wheelchairs and no crutches and ripped into "The Ties That Bind": "You been hurt and you're all cried out you say/You walk down the street pushing people out of your way."
All proceeds from the show – the first in a six-night stand for Springsteen at the Sports Arena – will be split between the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) – the organization Muller heads – and the Los Angeles Mental Health Clinic (the VVA will receive seventy-five percent of the estimated $100,000 take). Shortly after Springsteen announced his benefit, other musicians came to the aid of the veterans: Pat Benatar's September 20th Detroit performance will benefit the VVA, and Charlie Daniels will give the organization proceeds from a Warner Amex cable TV concert filmed in Saratoga Springs, New York, on September 4th. "I feel that the Vietnam veterans have been the most mistreated and most ignored people I can remember in my lifetime," said Daniels, "and this is the third war I've been through. It's time they were looked after and respected in the way they deserve."
Springsteen became interested in the veteran's plight through his friendship with disable vet Ron Kovic; he asked his manager, Jon Landau, to research the various veterans organization to determine which is the most effective, and he decided to do the show after meeting with Muller and VVA vice-president Michael Harbert earlier this summer.
"These are people of our generation – Bruce's, mine," said Landau. "I think Bruce saw a lot of his high-school friends go to Vietnam. It sounds corny, but these people we're trying to help could have been us if the circumstances had been a little different." Landau said he expects Springsteen to continue working for the veterans in different ways; an official Springsteen poster is already for sale, with all proceeds going to the VVA.
Backstage after the Springsteen show, Muller was ecstatic about the support his group is suddenly getting. "We tried everything," said Muller of his three-year-old organization. "Corporations, foundations, direct mail. We got thirty-five editorials in the Washington Post in 1978, but we didn't realize a single legislative objective. You can't push costly benefit programs through Congress with good arguments. You need political strength, and that means numbers."
With only 8000 members, the VVA does not have that strength. But after years of maneuvering, the group finally obtained a list of 1 million Vietnam veterans, and money from the concerts will go towards a direct-mailing operation aimed at those vets. Muller said that a goal of 50,000 members by spring and another 100,000 by the end of 1982 is realistic.
"People don't like to think about the Vietnam vets, because everything about the war was negative," he said. "We shouldn't have been fighting, we lost. . . . But Bruce has publicly aligned himself with the lepers of our society and taken us out of the shadows."
Springsteen made his commitment clear in his speech introducing Muller in Los Angeles. "It's like when you're walking down a dark street at night, and out of the corner of your eye you see somebody getting hurt in a dark alley," he said slowly. "But you keep walking on because you think it don't have nothing to do with you and you just want to get home. Vietnam turned this whole country into that dark street, and unless we can walk down those alleys and look into the eyes of those men and women, we're never gonna get home."
This story is from the October 1st, 1981 issue of Rolling Stone.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/springsteen-others-rally-to-help-vets-19811001#ixzz3yryqESss
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
To deafening applause, Muller, sitting center stage in a wheelchair, turned over the spotlight to Bruce Springsteen, the first of several rockers to play benefits for the veterans. Minutes earlier, Springsteen had introduced Muller with his own, terse, eloquent speech; now, he led the E Street Band into a dark, swelling melody and stepped to the mike to sing, "Long as I remember, the rain's been falling down. . . ." Creedence Clearwater Revival's eleven-year-old "Who'll Stop the Rain" was transformed into a majestic call to arms, and the next two songs deepended the mood: "Prove It All Night" was stripped of its usual joy, and Springsteen came down hard on the lines "If dreams came true, oh wouldn't it be nice/But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight." Then, without pause, he turned toward the two stage-side platforms full of veterans in wheelchairs and no crutches and ripped into "The Ties That Bind": "You been hurt and you're all cried out you say/You walk down the street pushing people out of your way."
All proceeds from the show – the first in a six-night stand for Springsteen at the Sports Arena – will be split between the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) – the organization Muller heads – and the Los Angeles Mental Health Clinic (the VVA will receive seventy-five percent of the estimated $100,000 take). Shortly after Springsteen announced his benefit, other musicians came to the aid of the veterans: Pat Benatar's September 20th Detroit performance will benefit the VVA, and Charlie Daniels will give the organization proceeds from a Warner Amex cable TV concert filmed in Saratoga Springs, New York, on September 4th. "I feel that the Vietnam veterans have been the most mistreated and most ignored people I can remember in my lifetime," said Daniels, "and this is the third war I've been through. It's time they were looked after and respected in the way they deserve."
Springsteen became interested in the veteran's plight through his friendship with disable vet Ron Kovic; he asked his manager, Jon Landau, to research the various veterans organization to determine which is the most effective, and he decided to do the show after meeting with Muller and VVA vice-president Michael Harbert earlier this summer.
"These are people of our generation – Bruce's, mine," said Landau. "I think Bruce saw a lot of his high-school friends go to Vietnam. It sounds corny, but these people we're trying to help could have been us if the circumstances had been a little different." Landau said he expects Springsteen to continue working for the veterans in different ways; an official Springsteen poster is already for sale, with all proceeds going to the VVA.
Backstage after the Springsteen show, Muller was ecstatic about the support his group is suddenly getting. "We tried everything," said Muller of his three-year-old organization. "Corporations, foundations, direct mail. We got thirty-five editorials in the Washington Post in 1978, but we didn't realize a single legislative objective. You can't push costly benefit programs through Congress with good arguments. You need political strength, and that means numbers."
With only 8000 members, the VVA does not have that strength. But after years of maneuvering, the group finally obtained a list of 1 million Vietnam veterans, and money from the concerts will go towards a direct-mailing operation aimed at those vets. Muller said that a goal of 50,000 members by spring and another 100,000 by the end of 1982 is realistic.
"People don't like to think about the Vietnam vets, because everything about the war was negative," he said. "We shouldn't have been fighting, we lost. . . . But Bruce has publicly aligned himself with the lepers of our society and taken us out of the shadows."
Springsteen made his commitment clear in his speech introducing Muller in Los Angeles. "It's like when you're walking down a dark street at night, and out of the corner of your eye you see somebody getting hurt in a dark alley," he said slowly. "But you keep walking on because you think it don't have nothing to do with you and you just want to get home. Vietnam turned this whole country into that dark street, and unless we can walk down those alleys and look into the eyes of those men and women, we're never gonna get home."
This story is from the October 1st, 1981 issue of Rolling Stone.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/springsteen-others-rally-to-help-vets-19811001#ixzz3yryqESss
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
After Party - Late Night Saturday - 80s Dance (Jan 31st, 2016)
Mick Smiley, Magic (Ghostbusters Soundtrack, 1984)
John Carpenter, Escape From New York (Main Theme, 1981)
John Carpenter, Escape From New York (Main Theme, 1981)
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Bruce Springsteen - Wreck On The Highway (1.19.16)
United Center, Chicago, IL.
So The River, I,...the {ah} thing I wrote about was time...I was sitting with a friend of mine last night and he said, ' Time comes to us all.' And The River was about the ticking of that time and how we each have finite amount of it - to do our jobs, to raise our family, to do something good....
That's The River.
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"We got some more left..."
Night
No Surrender (Take 2, Take 3)
Cover Me
She's The One
Human Touch
The Rising
Thunder Road
So The River, I,...the {ah} thing I wrote about was time...I was sitting with a friend of mine last night and he said, ' Time comes to us all.' And The River was about the ticking of that time and how we each have finite amount of it - to do our jobs, to raise our family, to do something good....
That's The River.
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"We got some more left..."
Night
No Surrender (Take 2, Take 3)
Cover Me
She's The One
Human Touch
The Rising
Thunder Road
Grateful Dead - April 22, 1978
Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN.
Set 1
Bertha->
Good Lovin'
Candyman
Looks Like Rain
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Peggy-O
New Minglewood Blues
Deal
Set 2
Lazy Lightning->
Supplication
It Must Have Been The Roses
Estimated Prophet (Weir: "The rhythm section...")
Eyes Of The World (no-good-coked out super-fast '78 version)
Rhythm Devils-> (full-on jungle chanting ritual sacrifice)
Not Fade Away
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Encore
One More Saturday Night
Notes: Another Saturday night with the Grateful Dead. Blazing Bertha->Good Lovin' combo to open the show. Rockin'. Focused. Jerry is on point. This is a really good 1st set with a delicate Candyman. looks like rain, and down home Jed with a mighty visit from Jack Straw. please please me peggy-o.
Off to watch the History of the Eagles again. Glen Frey is such an asshole. And maybe Horace & Pete (Louis C.K.'s new show that was unexpectedly released today).
Turner Classic Movies with One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Set 1
Bertha->
Good Lovin'
Candyman
Looks Like Rain
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Peggy-O
New Minglewood Blues
Deal
Set 2
Lazy Lightning->
Supplication
It Must Have Been The Roses
Estimated Prophet (Weir: "The rhythm section...")
Eyes Of The World (no-good-coked out super-fast '78 version)
Rhythm Devils-> (full-on jungle chanting ritual sacrifice)
Not Fade Away
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Encore
One More Saturday Night
Notes: Another Saturday night with the Grateful Dead. Blazing Bertha->Good Lovin' combo to open the show. Rockin'. Focused. Jerry is on point. This is a really good 1st set with a delicate Candyman. looks like rain, and down home Jed with a mighty visit from Jack Straw. please please me peggy-o.
Off to watch the History of the Eagles again. Glen Frey is such an asshole. And maybe Horace & Pete (Louis C.K.'s new show that was unexpectedly released today).
Turner Classic Movies with One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Fiona Apple - Best New Artist MTV (1997)
"This world is bullshit."
A 20-year old who wrote Sleep To Dream, Criminal, & Shadowboxer.
http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/101582/fiona-apple-best-new-artist-1997.jhtml
A 20-year old who wrote Sleep To Dream, Criminal, & Shadowboxer.
http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/101582/fiona-apple-best-new-artist-1997.jhtml
LIz Phair - Sessions at West 54th w/ David Byrne (1998)
Polyester Bride & 6'1".
The real thrill is David Byrne (wearing designer fatigues) as the interviewer on PBS.
The real thrill is David Byrne (wearing designer fatigues) as the interviewer on PBS.
Liz Phair - Fuck & Run (1995)
I had a crush on her in high school & I watched the X-Files. 20 years later, I still have a crush on her and the X-Files is back on television. (Hail, Hail Chicago)
Saturday, January 23, 2016
In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins, 1981) / Risky Business (Paul Brickman, 1983)
Going to the grocery in the frigid dark, this popped on the radio.
Highland Park. High School. And Saturday Nights.
Highland Park. High School. And Saturday Nights.
Phish - Feb. 15th, 2003
Thomas & Mack Arena, Las Vegas, NV.
Set 1
Llama
Wolfman's Brother
Reba
Life On Mars (David Bowie)
46 Days
It's Ice
Frankie Says
Run Like An Antelope
Set 2
Waves>
Bug>
Ghost>
Free
Harry Hood
Notes:
Attended the previous night/ the tour opener on Valentine's Day at The Forum, Los Angeles. First show of the tour after the hiatus. And that was all. People were looking for Vegas tix in the lot. Beginning of a journey.
From the opening Llama through Reba. Powerhouse. Dig on the Frankie Says & Antelope. Second set melts and flows. (Ghost has that little jingle reminiscent from Twist 6.14.00 & Ghost 5.22.00).
Set 1
Llama
Wolfman's Brother
Reba
Life On Mars (David Bowie)
46 Days
It's Ice
Frankie Says
Run Like An Antelope
Set 2
Waves>
Bug>
Ghost>
Free
Harry Hood
Notes:
Attended the previous night/ the tour opener on Valentine's Day at The Forum, Los Angeles. First show of the tour after the hiatus. And that was all. People were looking for Vegas tix in the lot. Beginning of a journey.
From the opening Llama through Reba. Powerhouse. Dig on the Frankie Says & Antelope. Second set melts and flows. (Ghost has that little jingle reminiscent from Twist 6.14.00 & Ghost 5.22.00).
Monday, January 18, 2016
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)
(shout out to the kinks lola versus powerman and the moneygoround.) gimme darjeeling over fantastic mr fox moonrise kingdom grand budapest hotel.
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