The Worst Romantic Comedy of the Year

My vote has got to go to "Lucky You." It's got all the makings of a really shitty cliche stuffed into a poop puff pastry of the most disgusting kind.

I know there's a place for cliche, but NOT in the commercial for the flick. Jeez. Yuck.

Oooh, I'm folding. Ooh, all you do is gamble?

I'm sorry, but fuck this movie. I don't even have to see it. Just fuck it.

Japan's Mono to play Casbah Sunday 29 April 2007

"Mono is making the music that Mogwai should be making."

That's how my friend Pinche's friend Jaime described this band before we saw them last May. If Coachella gets cancelled, I'm there. And if you're not going to Coachella and you miss this, you'll miss two amazing shows in one night.

Check out One Step More and You Die for some of their fantastic sonic dirge.

Mini-Dorms in PB

What are these Pacific Beach wussies bitching about? Public urination? Noise? Drinking?

Come on people, it's a BEACH TOWN!

Is this not what San Diego was founded upon?

Coachella - Research - Amy Winehouse

This is the reason I go to Coachella.
And the reason I subscribe to Napster.

Come to think of it, Coachella is my one true vacation every year. I get to drive a mere two hours, NOT to LA, to see up to 100 bands in a weekend. This year, the third day might actually present me the opportunity to see that many.

I'm all about quality over quantity, and that's why I'm finally starting to research the bands I'll be seeing this year. Tonight, I realized that Amy Winehouse is one for the must see list. The AMG write-up alludes to the fact that she's done some jazzy stuff, but her Back to Black offering, which I'm listening to now, is heavy on the Motown influence. But there's something else here, something almost Beck-like, that I can't quite put my finger on. It's not quite that weird, but the beats are just infectious.

And you've gotta love an album that starts off with the hook, "Try to make me go to rehab / I said no, no no!"

U.S. Air Guitar Championships @ The Casbah

At first, when I saw this announcement for the 30 June 2007 show at San Diego's fantastic venue The Casbah, I thought Tim Mays had lost his mind.

Then I saw he was charging $15 USD to get in.

Aaah, capitalism. You can even make money off stuff you hate.

Love ya Tim.

TV On the Radio - Belly Up Tavern - 1 April, 2007

I have to admit that I'm a relative newcomer to this band, and I can't really call myself an avid fan. I was glad that we got tickets back in early February, before Sparklehorse played at Belly Up. By the middle of February, the show had already sold out.

I don't know the names of most of the songs, and I'm only familiar with their 2006 release, Return To Cookie Mountain, but I have to say that they were very impressive live. A four-piece, from what I could tell, I'm not sure if they had any synthesizers or if they were using DAT for some of the more eclectic sounds, but they managed to pull off the cacophony of sound in a live environment very well.

I do know that they played I Was A Lover and Wolf Like Me from the Cookie Mountain album, which was very highly regarded by pitchforkmedia.com in last year's roundup of the best albums of 2006. I hate Pitchfork sometimes, but I have to admit, with these guys, they were right on.

This is a picture from the show. It was forbidden to take any pictures, but you know us.

Pretty Girls Make Graves

Their farewell tour is coming to The Casbah on Thursday, May 31. I'm not sure how serious they are but I'm going to check it out.

I wanted to see them a few years back at Coachella, but my travellin' companion was a bit of a lazy bastard, and I wasn't too much a prime mover that day, so I missed 'em.

If I'm not too lame, I'll make it this time. Even though I've sworn off school night shows.