A Weekend In The City

I don't usually condone things like this. I have plans after work to specifically deviate from my normal routine of boxed rice-o-roni and facebooking to go into the city to BUY three CDs of artists that deserve my support (Bayside - Shudder, Jenny Lewis - Acid Tounge, etc.) but I feel I need to clear the name of a great band who put out a brilliant disc two years ago.

I said I would discuss the bloc party show, and I will, soon, but it was brilliant. So brilliant that all the attendees that I knew were all like "what happened to them?" "I heard their last disc wasn't very good... or, I didn't even know they had a new disc...:


Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City

This disc is one of my favorites. The lyrics and song writing are so well crafted, and I don't know why the masses panned it.

Catch up. Have a listen. If you don't like it, don't buy it. But if you do, they have a NEW disc coming out at the end of October called Intimacy, which I think is brilliant, if not a bit less accessible than their previous efforts. Cheers.

The Mars Volta @ Hammerstein Ballroom

Whenever i'm having a great time I tend to not document it. Part of the reason why there is little to no documentation of my last year of touring. Either way, here's a quick re-cap, since I woke up too early this morning and have a few minutes to spare.

Last wednesday I was invited to see the Mars Volta. I've never seen them, and my buddy Aric works for Universal (their ex-label) so he got a pair of free tickets, so I said why the hell not. I don't know if you've ever seen them, but I had no idea there was this super-hispanic-pride thing going on with this band. I know they sing in spanish sometimes, and that should have warned me, but the people in front of us had a Gigantic flag they were waving at the end of every song (if you've seen the mars volta you know that means every twenty-thirty minutes)

Very rarely do I get inspired by any sort of fashion icon. I never see an ad or a mannequin and thing, man, that could be me. But have you ever seen Cedric and Omar? I know I was in the mezzanine, but from that distance they looked like the coolest mother-fuckers I've ever seen. Maybe it's the hispanic fiber of my being, but I couldn't stop thinking about how I could create a strange punk-rocker-salsa-dancer aesthetic in my life. But, these feelings quickly subsided, as I entered my almost completely white world.

I like to post set lists for bands, but I couldn't even begin to figure that one out. I think they only played like seven songs (i'm being serious) and played for like 2 hours. It was amazing, but you kinda just have to go with it and no concentrate on waiting to see if they'll play your favorites (they didn't)

This took longer than I thought. I have to go to work. Next Up my experience at the free Bloc Party concert @ Roseland Ballroom.

Super-Amazing...

Sometimes at work customers ask us to draw something cute on their invoice... a job best left to someone with a steadier hand. But, regardless, I have become resident 'Doodlebugger'

I have so far drawn Miley Cyrus, A Jonas Brother, a giraffe, an owl, and a myriad of other not so interesting things...

But I rather enjoyed this one... I took a few liberties with her request.

click the photo to see it in all of it's glory... and for those who can't read the blurry text she asked me to draw her a "super amazing pair of green high heels"

Ode to TX

I got a bittersweet text from a good buddy of mine, informing me that she was hosting a party tomorrow, with free drinks... and that we should drink them because she was going back to Paris pretty soon. I've gone months without seeing Texas, but it's always pretty lame when she leaves. This is my ode to her existence in my life for the last few months... Read her blog. She leads a far more interesting life than I do... and she's reeeeeally pretty.