June 28, 2003
foo fighters banned video
sometimes a video is so good that MTV has to ban it.
foo fighters never let me down. they make great videos.
check here too see it in real video format or click here to check the windows media format
big ups to kingblind for the story
Design Command Center
2003 DCC Index
this is a pretty great site. the low down: its 4 sections. there is a "logos" section where they have pretty much every corporate logo and sports team logo downloadable in some sort of psd or illustrator format. i can see this being great for some of those anti comsumerism pieces or even better the spoof designs that look like a real logo but say some funny shit. there is a template section that has adobe illustrator files of standard meaasures like business cards and the like. also a bit of stock photos can be found here. there is also a great downloadable font section. seems to have a lot but only fonts listed by name, no graphical preview. broken down into serif, sans, scripts, and display fonts. also i have to mention the links section. its pretty spiffy and is almost a complete list of some of the must have links for design etc. links sections grouped by photography, fonts, illustration, design library, organizations, design firms, design resources, and design gods. which only lists rand and schwab.
this is a great site to have bookmarked.
June 27, 2003
Charlie's Angels: full throtle
i liked the movie XXX with vin diesel because it was absurd. it was made to be so cool and have these 13 year old kids thinking "wow XXX is the man, he is so awsome" everything was sooooo extreme sport syle it was hilarious. and it wasnt supposed to be funny but thats why i liked it. it was so bad it was good. [honest to god i have the poster framed in my living room]
that being said i liked charlie's angels 1 for the movie itself. not because it was so bad it was good but because it had great action and hot chicks and was really funny.
charlie's angels: full throtle [henceforth to be referenced as CA:FT] was amazing.
i was looking forward to this more than matrix 2 or x-men 2. and this one is better than the first. the first movie was tounge-in-cheek but this one goes beyond that is is just absurd for absurditys sake. the action scenes are really amazing. really cool stuff and keeps your attention. shit doesnt go on for 10 minutes and gets boring like other big action movies of the summer. what i liked the best about this one was the humor. hi-fucking-larious. special attention to be giving to crispen glovers return character of "creepy skinny man". that took his quirky character and just went nuts with it i was laughing so hard i think a little pee came out.
this flick was just making fun of itself the whole time which just made it more fun. i loved XXX but it took itself too seriously. CA:FT is just a big goof on the whole genre. and not to mention this one has 4 hot women instead of just 3. i think cameron diaz's ass got more screen time than her face, no joke. if you wanna see a fun movie check this bitch out. i think ill see it again this weekend.
moonraker @ MIDDLE EAST
i saw moonraker last night at the middle east. great band from boston that recently relocated to brooklyn and signed with Immergent Records who are based out of L.A.
moonraker was really good. i was disappointed in the crowd size though because this band is very talented and one of those bands you see that you know will get big. but it was still an excellent show. its really hard to describe thier sound. i used to tell people it was similar to portishead but now its gone so far beyond that im not sure. i ran in to dan and kody from the band and was introduced by a mutual friend. i shot the shit with them about the band and found out that they will have a new album coming out in september. great guys great band. check out the website for a video and some song downloads. great stuff
June 24, 2003
apple announces panther and G5s
yeah super cool. the shit looks hot. not i need some money. iChat AV is real cool. im not even gonna review it because so many others have an mine would be crap but yes thumbs up. very cool. need one.
June 23, 2003
the big cats of operating systems
so there is a certain fruit flavored computer company releasing a major update to thier amazing operating system. by the time you read this there will probably be an official announcement but untill then i have found some leaked screen shots of said update. these are just pictures, no comments on them. if you want comments go to the source of the pics i got at opinionstick . they have comments on each screen shot. the only reason i am hosting the pics here is because every site that had the pics that i was going to be posting about ends up breaking or something because after a few hours the pictures disappear. but i am a total nerd because the pics give me a semi. cheers. also shout out to josh for finding a site with the pics still up
June 20, 2003
my new favorite website
Epitonic.com
do you like hearing music you've never heard before? do you wish you were into some cool underground/obscure/indie music but you know only MTV and commercial radio?
hit this fucking site now. even if you are dailed in or dont want new music. hit that f-u-c-k-i-n-g website right fucking now. step 2, thank me.
i wont even get into the ste in depth cuz if you did what i said youre there and you know its rad.
long and short of it: its a website that has editors much like a music magazine but they put in artists from indie labels and such and they select some good shit make it available to stream the music or in some cases download mp3s. and even buy the shit you like. kind of like a better version of the apple music store.
get an account cuz you can save play lists and share em.
i really like the options "stream page" where obviously, it streams the page of music instead of having to hit each thing. also the forums and articles are amazing. so far ive been on here 1 hour and im now oing to buy 3 albums later thsi afternoon. i also got to check out music of bands i have been told to check out and bands ive seen live that i didnt know about but thought to myself i gotta check em out sometime. hands down amazing site. i and tearing up im so happy. but i have yet to find a fault. ive only been on it for an hour.
big ups to my pal Dugan for hoking me up to the link.
June 19, 2003
im stoked...
STOKED: The Rise and Fall of Gator
i really want to se this documentary. its about the pro skater, Gator, back in the 80's that i think killed his girlfriend. i know he killed a girl but i remember hearing the stories back in the day. i had a gator board and i think its still in my mom's basment somewhere. best board ever. i have the red and green one and my buddy had the blue, black and white one, Vision was rad. i remember hearing about the murder from a bunch of people back when it happened but no one really knew the whole story. this movie looks rad.
this link brought to my attention from the Wooster Collective
letting things go..
this is just hilarious. this is from the current tour. i guess life on the road is hard for the body. i like to think of this as the "elvis-later-in-life" stage of her carrer. but seriously, you know you'd still hit it.
pic courtesy of kari
June 18, 2003
wooster collective
Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming
i should have posted this earlier because this is one hot site. i love this site. thats pretty much it. even though i found this site a few weeks after i started craplog, wooster collective is the main inspiration. seriously its so good and constantly updated with the coolest images and interviews and links it makes me want to give up doing this site because there is no way craplog will be that good. but then i remember the craplog mission statement that its not meant to be that good. bu wooster collective, great shit from ALL over the world. image archives broken down into stickers, posters, graffiti, stencils and even anti war art. the links of cool merch and artists is extremely extensive. this site is one of those 'hit every day' sites because its updated so frequently and checking it out turns into one of those obbsessive compulsive disorders because the world will end if you miss and update or something. but bottom line is that it puts me to shame and is great all around if you are looking for cool art that you normally wont find where ever you are or on the internet [read street art]
Magmo The Destroyer
MAGMO The Destroyer
big ups to magmo. this is some hot stuff. its really hard to pin this site down into a style because it has a lot of different areas. but we can still call this an "art" site. its based around a character called (obviously) Magmo the destroyer. magmo isnt just a pretty face though. he stands for something, magmo's mission statement states:
"Magmo The Destroyer is a universal super hero who fights to protect and educate humanity against all forms of political, social, economic and environmental injustice through storytelling and the visual arts.
Destroy + Rebuild."
thats cool, i dig. whats great about magmo too is that the site isnt just empty imagery to convey meaning. there are actual comic book esque episodes about magmo confronting all the things he destroys. the episodes are really well done as well as entertaining. the panels are done of this insanly vivid and textured multi media look. each panel is a work in itself but there is story and meaning to boot. and its all situations we have all been in which makes it even more hilarious. i like episode 3 the best.
other than the episodes you can view magmo art which is im the same digital multi media style as the panels and news about magmo and the world/internet. a great section of the magmo site is the downloads section wher eyou can download pdfs of magmo stickers layouts and sencils so you have have the gear for free and spread the word. and the links section is packed. itll take you a week to sift through all those great sites.
as i have said in a previous post, artists that gear thier art towards activism come and go but i think magmo will be fighting the good fight for as long as he exists. because if magmo isnt fighting big business, corruption, racism, greed, discrimination, materialism and ignorance then magmo has become what he is wants to destroy and that would be sad.
June 17, 2003
what is this?
hmmm what could this be?
if the rumor sites are correct this is the real deal. but ou know rumor sites, 50% bullshit. but many of them are saying that this is real. but the image does look weird. im not sure. im leaning on NOT real because of the image quality. i remember a few days before macworld a few years ago we got an actual photo someone took. but this is weird looking. could have been a rush job to get a copy of the image on a b+y scanner and then foldered up and then scanned later. i hope its not real. looks like a dell server or something not as mac pretty as id expect. anyway you be the judge.
art of war: WithRemote
WITHREMOTE 4.0
there is an obvious trend in art and especially 'street' and 'non conventional' artforms to do anti-war or some sort of political work. now this has always always always been being done but with the recent 'operation freedom' and shit a lot more artists have focused thier content on such.
often this becomes very boring to me. not because i dont like it but because everyone jumps on it. even me, check out ers designs and see the basic military theme going on. im not saying a message there but i just think it looks cool. and all designers know this. so you tend to see who is commited and who is the jump on boards when shit gets old. people that thought they were being so daring and original see that its happening in all artforms and arent too commited to the cause and then you see them again next time some big trend comes around. and then again you see the people so devoted to the message that great work they do sometimes ends up getting passed over as being too preachy or 'yesterday'. so sad to have ethics in art i guess. that being said this site has great work and you have it all wrong in your head. dont write it off, because this site and work isnt even all about this war in other countries. read the about:
"We are at war. Every day we are assaulted with corporate ads for products they say we need. Attempts are made to brain wash the public into blind consumers. Those who fight this war fight without guns or bombs. Rather it's a visual war, a fight to reclaim public space that has been over run by advertising for generations."
ah yes. i love anti consumerism work. but this is great. the site has a medium size collection of work to look at. the multi color stencils are amazing and the selected 'war' images are choice.
me? next redesign i will most likly get rid of the guns.
June 14, 2003
dvd: rules of attraction
The Rules of Attraction
i liked this one a lot. but then again when someone refers a movie and the only thing they say is, "that movie is fucked up!", i tend to like it. first i wanna say that "fucked up" is too vague of a description. and its too giving. so my one liner for this movie is "intense" this movie is intense.
im not gonna give a synopsis of what its about, they have amazon and shit like that to give weak outlines of the story. and you know id fuck it up anyway. moving on.
why did i like this movie? well ill go in no order whatsoever,
cinematography- i know playing scenes backwards has gotten to be a cliche but this film does it all in context. a lot of story rewinding going on here and its illustrated best with the backwards shit. also some of the best split screen work i have ever seen. also the scene with Victor going over his european vacation, initially i thought it was shot at a lower speed to make it look fast but thinking bak i think it could be just a masterful editing session. either way its amazing.
acting- usually i dont really cite acting as a strong point in many of my favorite movies. which is shitty of me because if the acting is bad it kills a movie so if its my favorite its kinda given. but i had to bring it up in the case of james van der beek. yes the guy from dawsons creek and that awful football movie. he made this movie good. it really made me like him as an actor. his general tone and line delivery is dead on to make the character work.
story- again i am going to note the term "fucked up". there are many different kinds of fucked up movies. this id like to put into "dark comedy". its pretty dark. but i laughed out loud many times, hilarious scenes. this is based on a book which i havent read but i think i will now. i hate reading the book after the movie but this was just a well textured story. and the other books written by Bret Easton Ellis made great movies like "american psycho" and "less than zero"[which ellis wrote at age 21!?!] the inner monologues and intersecting character's stories are really good as well. everything in here is way extreme. not unfathomly extreme making the characters seem totally fictional but each character is extreme and intense enough to make you feel you know someone who is that shallow/needy/slutty.
music- this soundtrack is on that donnie darko level of soundtracks. each song sounds so perfect in each respective scene it makes you notice how good it is and make a mental note to see if there is a soundtrack. good for you there is one.
dvd content- not so good. i would want more. all you get is the IFC show "anatomy of a scene" [which i havent seen yet but i love that show], some trailers, book ad, and a soundtrack ad. no commentary or any of the cool shit that i love about extra features. with most big blockbuster flick i could give 2 shits about the extra features because most of it is the actor doing an interview youve seen on tv way too many times. this time i WANTED to see those lame interviews and cut scenes and alternates. but no i get screwed.
so to end my crappy review i just wanna say that this movie is the kind of flick that goes into my list of must buy DVDs. it kinda has that weird story that is interesting to think about but is also visually cool. but yeah..... i guess this movie is fucked up
June 13, 2003
in search of inspirado: refused
it feels good to listen to a band or album you havnt really listened to in a long time. i bought the album "The Shape of Punk to Come" by the band Refused when it came out and loved it. and since then i havnt really listened to it the way i used too. untill recently that is. im finding myself completly hooked again. and the strange thing is the songs i wasnt really into before are the ones i like best now. and the ones i listened to all the time back then are kinda played out now [because i listened to them soo much]
i popped in some refused when i had to redo my entire iTunes playlist section because i trashed the preferences. one of my current favorite bands is The (International) Noise Conspiracy which is headed by the former front man of the now disbanded refused. as i was sorting i put refused and t(i)nc together and decided to revisit my musical past. and hold shit its all ive been listening too since. Refused is hardcore. not this shit punk mtv shit. and its not unlistenable heavy as shit hardcore. its its own thing. it goes back and forth between mellow light or even spoken word to a basic beat straight into an all out screaming guitar blast that makes you want to flip out. and this happens a few times each song. and the content and lyrics are so aggressivly political it makes Rage Against the Machine lyrics sound tame......almost.
i suggest you check some out gets some preview tracks somewheres. or if you have itunes 4 click here if that link dosent work click the green banner on the main page [down to the right]
for starters check out the album The Shape of Punk to Come"
if you want a fast hardcore song you should check "new noise"
my new favorites off that album though are "Tannhauser/Derive" and "The Apollo Programe was a Hoax"
if you enjoy that album i suggest another refused album "Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent"
and if you find it a bit too hardcore i highly recommend The (International) Noise Conspiracy 's album A New Morning, Changing Weather. its punk its poppy, you can dance to it.
and appologies to any iTunes 4 listeners, i am still looking for the rest of my refused/t(i)nc albums to rip so its not a complete discography at present.
June 10, 2003
Update:Texstyles Pics
just a wee bit of an update, NFS Industries should have a photo gallery up soon but un till then Magmo The Destroyer was kind enough to put up some of his pics
here is a pic i lifted off his site that shows the two shirts i had in. the red shirt with black print that says "kubrick" and the tan shirt with the red computer print. both shirts were limited run of 3 each. and the kubrick one was a stencil that was destroyed. so that all for that one. but i will make another stencil of it soon hopefully but that was the only one so it wont be the same. the computer screen is still around so i will make more of them but not ever the same colors. limited run. which sucks cuz i really liked the colors.
and this is funny:
here is a pic of me, behind the orange shirt. what am i doing? well i am looking at my own shirts. and i am saying outloud, "DAMN, whoever made these two shirts is AMAZING". and its sad because i really did do that.
my favorite Penny-Arcade
Penny Arcade: Fruit Fucker 2000
this is just my favorite penny-arcade strip ever
June 08, 2003
reviewed: Texstyles kicked ass
so last night was the opening of the gallery show titled texstyles, which i have posted about before and is a gallery show by NFS Industries that is showing only t-shirt designs. The show was at the Washington Street Art Center, and i had never been there before so its always cool to see new gallery spaces. im really bummed i didnt get a chance to take any pictures becuase i had lent my camera out and the show was just amazing.
first off i just wanna say that it was extra cool for me because i actually had work in the show, and there was good wall placement for it. other than that personal reason for like the show i must say that yes, "THIS SHOW KICKED ASS" why? well i like to think that the success of this show was made up of 3 things:
#3- Krispy Kreme Doughnuts: holy shit krispy kreme is like crack, its the only shit i get every time i'm in new york. ill eat these things the whole time i'm down there cuz i know i wont get any up here. we need a krispy kreme up here. please. they had 5 boxes of the honey glazed, hell yes. all cuz up in to quarters i think i was stuffing my face with handfuls. honorable mention goes to twizzlers, sugar cookies, pretzels, gummy bears, and cherry coke also in attendance.
#2- Free Shit: oh yes free shit does rule but this was insanity. most people were aware that 90% of the shirts were going to be raffled off which rules but i was not expecting the amount of art booty to be on the floor. i was dumb and when i walked in i saw all this free stuff but kept passing it b or picking it up and putting it down as to not look greedy. but 10 min later the show was packed and everything was going fast. the people that ran the show were really smart about how they went about it all though, every time i passed one of the many "free shit" tables i saw that more stuff was put out. i got loaded up. stickers galore, everyone representing had stickers they had out for free[everyone except me though cuz i'm dumb and didn't think of it], lots of post cards/biz cards/fliers, some posters and great things to hang up, a t-shirt representing the show, an amazing book from gum, a comic book, and a pretty rad mesh hat. even if this show sucked it would have been amazing because all of the great give away shit. and its not even over yet, the raffle for the shirts is still at hand, which brings me to ...
#1- The T-Shirts: Totally Amazing. i had never been to a show like this before and have never heard of a show like this in the area but i have no idea why, this was great. the shirts ranged from easy one color screen prints to a few stencils to a few pieces that blew me away like the shirts the looked stenciled but were extremely detailed and had amazing colors it made you think if they were screened. there were some really amazingly screened shirts too, the Span of Sunset work was really detailed. there were other screen shirts that were just so intense with print going around the side and into the collar. it was rad. the place was packed and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves but i was sweating and did the rounds 4 times before decided to step out in to the cool night air. before we left i grabbed a handful of krispy kremes.
so here is just a random list in no order of some shirts i liked. these aren't the only shirts i liked but just the ones where i made note to check out the website later because i was impressed and/or had never heard or seen them before.
Urban Medium- this shit was good. graphically and the quality/detail of screen print. just really cool. i liked everything this place had
Span of Sunset - looking back on the notes i made of the show this place had a lot more shirts i liked than i had thought. i appreciated a lot of the work but some of it wasn't shit id rock, but then i'm finding that some of the shit i liked the best came from here too. tron bike shirts were great.
rep1- the website here isn't really any thing but very unique shirts, massive style points awarded here
kozyndan- cant go wrong with this place. i was just impressed. had an alternate color of a print i like and had free postcards.
lionlioness- just great designs. simple but style. the website doesn't have the shirt that caught my attention but soon maybe it will.
greenlady- the palm tree design really blew me away. looked like layered masking tape. website doesn't have it but does have some great designs. and the website interface is super cool.
tank theory- most of the things i was into were in the same style i think i am in generally, but these shirts were extremely detailed. really amazing, the designs on these shirts is the kinda stuff id want on a canvas hanging in my house. i liked all the stuff here which again is kinda weird because i'm usually into the straight up bold graphic. the use of color and layout here is beyond my comprehension.
Fugamma- i cant seem to remember why and my notes were written poorly but it seems i had written fugamma a bunch of times in different places and sometimes with !!! or "holy shit" next to it. the site is good but nothing looks familiar from last night.
Minor Industries- Minor Industries definitely in my style of work. i like what they had here. i'm gonna look for good things coming out of this place.
Seven-Nine- i think they had my favorite shirt of the show and its too bad its not on the website because it was rad. detailed screen. i saw it a few times and passed it over but when i got close it was like "yeah"
Speedy Marie Strip Tees- no real site yet but these were great. t shirts for fake strip clubs. my favorite was the irish stripclub called "Busty McTittie's" featuring a nude chick on a shamrock.
and of course i wanna give shout outs to our gracious hosts that also rocked shit
BrandWashed- had the best shirt i've seen come out of that shop called "Allston Invades Harvard", i want that shit except Central Sq style.
and
Evil Design- MCA had some new shit i hadn't seen before that i thought was really good. the james brown tribute 2003 and the new ABCDE shirts are rad.
so yeah that show was ill. hope to see something like it in the future. much fun. if you did go then i was the tallest guy there. had glasses. i found a bunch of new designers i am now fans of and i got free shit mingled a bit and most noteworthy is that i got some krispy kremes.
June 07, 2003
Chuck Palahniuk Interview
www.ErieEntertainment.com
has a great interview with one of my favorite authors, chuck palahniuk. if you ever hear of chuck doing a in sore or book signing, you should go. he is really funny and a surprisingly cool guy. not that i thought hed be a dick but he was very approachable and chill. he signed all my books which i have lent out and not seen in years. great author, my list from most fave to least fave is as follows: Invisable Monsters, Lullaby, Fight Club, Survivor, Choke.
this interview link was stolen from Parrallax View
June 05, 2003
The Matrix Reloaded Game
first off people have either loved the Matrix:Reloaded or totally hated it. i liked it. but thats besides the point. to the people that hated it i suggest seeing all of the animatrix shorts. the shorts add to the stroy nicely which brings me to this game. this is not a game wher eyou pretty much play out the events in the movie. this is its own parralel story line. The game is focused on the crew of the ship Logos and you can play either as Niobe [Jada Smith] or Ghost. The game story starts out what seems to be a few days before the movie starts.. [possible spoilers ahead if you havent seen the movie yet]
the scene in the begining of the movie where all the captains are meeting up to discus going back to zion takes place close to a quater of the game in. the whole thing is like "what was Niobe doing when neo/morpheus/trinity was doing [insert scene here]"
its very cool and i think i think the story better than the movie. im all like "holy shit they have had a rough week". what is really cool is that the game models and animation scenes are inter cut with real video segments so inbetween levels and such its not just voice overs of computer animated characters, its real film. i think the game adds sooo much more story line its a must play. but it may be the wrong kind of story line if you were confused by the movie. it dosent offer any of the philosphical points that the movie had, just your basic content and action.
so moving on, besides a great story the game is fun shit. even if you want to see the story but suck at games, easy mode is really easy, easier than i had expected. so many weapons obviously. i didnt expect them to be able to get all the cool "matrix moves" into the game but its failry ingenious. you have a focus meter, you hold the focus button down and everything starts moving slowly and you can dodge bullets and run up walls and do all the crazy jumps and flips that make the matrix cool.
another great feature of the game is "hacking" mode, which is like a DOS prompt and you just root around look for files and crap. lots of things can be unlocked from here including some great cheats.
im not sure about the replayability of the game since its pretty much story based and once you been there, you been there. there is an unlockable mini game and i have heard rumors about an unlockable multiplayer mode [all via "hacking"]
AND when you beat the game you get a trailer for The Matrix :Revolutions the movie, which is kinda like "so what, i waited till the end credits in the theater and saw the trailer there" but no this trailer is better than the one after the cedits of the movie. it just is.
so in closing, great game i suggest rent it for a week and beat it, and if you STILL want more, then buy it. i rented it and i have a few more days left but its pretty much done.
Apple meets with Indie Labels
stolen from kingblind.com.
Apple music store about to get a whole lot cooler. i feel that i personally had something to do with this. the first hour of ITMS launch i submitted a form saying they needed fischerspooner and Yeah yeah yeahs because both bands were now on major labels with new albums. 2 weeks later they get both albums and make fischerspooner a spotlighted artist with exclusive tracks. all me baby. i saw the power i weilded and sent another request to get indie labels such as dischord, lookout, and matador. even though it is a logical step for apple i am going to say that this is my doing.
reminder: TEXSTYLES gallery show on Sat
for info. gallery shoow in somerville displaying Tshirt and designs. saturday june 7th 8-10pm
Sharing iTunes in 4.0.1
like many i like streaming my iTunes play lists. but when iLeech came out and allowed used to copy files from those streamed playlists, record labels got pissy and apple qucikly released version 4.0.1 of itunes which stops the possability of streaming. i have not yet updated to 4.0.1 yet and my stream will be working again soon. i had to install a new HD and move some stuff around so if you are one of the few streamers i have please bear with and check back soon. i didnt stop it, just re organizing it. so if you are one of the 4.0.1 people, get iCommune 401(ok). also just want to say that i don't use iLeech. well not yet anyway :P
June 03, 2003
Gui Galaxy
remember when hanibal from a-team said, "i love it when a plan comes together" ?this is kind of like that but instead of a plan coming together its some of the hottest cyber designers on the web. the group seems to consist of 11 members from around the world with different design concentrations.
if i had to label this site with one concentration it would be leaning towards icons for the mac platform. but this is more than that. they have great sections like "OSX news" in which the member secundine keeps everyone updated with new and cool apps for OSX. other sections like Spotlight [which is an interview section with designers and artists] , and Life Through A Lens [ which is a kind of photo gallery where users just like you and me can upload photos that reflect you and your world] keep the content always fresh.
one of the reasons i HAD to post this link was that they used to have AMAZING limited run T-shirts that were usually submitted and voted on by the GG members. they do have an update on here saying that they are opening up a new site called Damcorp that will just deal in tshirt design. im excited for thsi one. great designs and a great group of guys [and girls]
my only real problem with the site is that all the content isnt the easiest to navigate. i often miss something that is located in the navigation area thats in the middle of the page [and its a long page so when you open it, navigation is at the bottom] and the buttons that bring you to other parts of the site are not as obvious as i would like them to be . i also miss thier mascot, the robot bishop, who has his own LiveJournal that is pretty funny. so he still is on the site but what once has a staple of the site, bishop and all his incarnations and looks done by all the different designers, is now just another gif with a button. but hey its still a good site with good content. i expect this site to get better soon when damcorp comes online
June 01, 2003
ted leo @ middle east = amazing
i cant even describe. too speechless. i have seen ted leo i think 90% of his boston shows since the release of his self titled album and i can say that this show tonight...the best.....ever. i dont even think i could go to another ted leo show and not be dissappointed after this one. thats i lie. and i cant leave out his band the pharmacists. they tore it up.
im not sure if its just because i love this band so much or that they really did have a fucking insane show but i was blown away. which isn't that easy to do. i am fairly jaded. these guys played thier hearts out hot lights and a full set + encore, they looked ready to drop but kept it rocking.
i have to slow down im hyper ventilating im so psyched. ok just recap. best show i think ive seen in a year at least. best ted show ever.
ok so if you were there i was the tallest dude there, green shirt, glasses, right arm tattoo. i usually chill in the back cuz i can see and i dont get people touching me. but ted came on and i went to the upper deck right in front so i was just off the side of the stage next to the speakers. after earplugs i was all set. shout out to Buzz and Roberts that i met with there. buzz is the biggest ted fan ever. i thought he would have exploded. i almost did myself. they played all the great songs that i wanted to hear. and they played some songs that i should check out again that werent my faves but now could be. and then they ended thier main set with "trouble in treble" which fucks shit up. "trouble in treble" is a hard song to follow up but for the encore they played "St. John the Divine" which was the same song i had been screaming out [5 feet to his right] to play all night. it was utter bliss.
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i am pretty tired right now but im brimming with post show euphoria. i just dont want to keep saying the same shit. im in that shell shocked mind set that i just experienced something insane and keep mumbling "...best....show....ever..." cheers everyone have a good day