i might go see a place to bury strangers on my brithday (3/19). i'm still trying to decide though, they're playing with crappy bands (sons and daughters, and holy fuck). holy fuck's alright i guess, but sons and daughters are god awful

For sure:
Sonic MutherFuckin Youth in Nashville.

Maybe:
Pere Ubu
N*E*R*D
Duke Spirit (opening for BRMC, probably going to leave after Duke Spirit)
Breeders
any other's that I find

fucking cool...

"oh shit there's a horse in the hospital"

"chicago spine tingle mind boggle"

i was supposed to go to bone thugs n harmony tonight but i forgot, dont care that much though.

march 19th-nile (in pheonix)

april 8th- ministry/meshuggah (in tempe, should be a rockin show even if neither of these bands has put many good records out lately)

april 30th-converge/red chord/baronness/genghis tron (tempe, what a fucking lineup!)

may 3rd-breeders (pheonix)

theres also that big kanye west extravanganza tour with nerd and lupe fiasco and rihanna and hes playin a show right at my schools (university of arizona) basketball arena so ill check it out, cant tell me nothing and stronger were the best things ive heard on the radio in maybe the past 5 years.

anyways, fall is always kinda dead for good shows, not to mention im missing boredoms (tears) and the northeastern power eloectronic noise festival because by mere days they dont make my spring break, i really wanted to see twodeadsluts:one good fuck.

ive seen all of them, ghostface three times and he was great once and decent the other two times, doc oc was a disater when i saw him, rapped maybe four tracks and then made inapproripate and not funny, ok well sort of funny, to female audicnce members, he gave out free panties and had girls come on stage, put the undies on, and start shakin it. next thing i know (let it be known im blitzed on oxycontin and blunted outta my head) some fat white trash woman with a fucking CANE, a walking fucking cane, gets on stage, puts on the panties, and starts trying to dance. besides being debilitated shes absolutel shitfaced, just falling all over the place. keith then says, "bitch get the fuck outta here, ur embarassin your own damn self, and ur fat ass is stretchin my panties, i paid for these", i was allready high and giggly as it was and this was it, my buddies and i were on the floor laughing, i literally puked i laughed so hard, i felt bad for the woman too but sometimes you bring shit on yourself. so yeah, that was the best part of the doc oc show

You should be in pure agony for missing one of these Boredoms shows, right after I bought my tickets I found out that Soft Circle (Hisham Bharoocha, ex-Black Dice) AND Black Pus (Brian Chippendale from Lightning Bolt) are both opening for a whole bunch of their shows.

In other news, seeing Akron/Family on March 5th.

jesus i wana kill myself. i love hisham too, i met him in nyc a couple years back hes way chilled out. the soft circle record was real underrated too.

nile came like two weeks ago but i didn't even bother, i'm mostly bored with metal bands live. didn't see iron maiden sunday night either.

i would however go see converge/baroness/genghis tron because converge is one of my all time favorite bands and when i saw them they played for like 15 minutes (not really, just seemed like that), baroness made one of the best albums of last year and genghis tron are amazing.

i know hip hop live is mostly shit, but still, seeing kool keith and ghostface in the flesh is going to be awesome!

bands im definatly seeing in the next few months..
battles and liars on one bill. magik markers and melt banana..... sweet.

Fuck Buttons & And So I Watch You From Afar tomorrow

In the coming months
Kling Klang
Dino Jr
Eels
Rollins
Enablers
Nick Cave
Chrome Hoof
Howlin' Rain
Jonathan Richman
Holy Fuck
Bjork

Belfast's really on the upturn these days, used to go for up to 6 months between good gigs here, now my wallet never gets to recover

Where are Battles & Liars playing, Paulybee?

ok, i'll do a recap of what i'm seeing soon, hopefully:

march 1: black dahlia murder
(seen them already but were great fun so i'll see if i have the dough to go).

march 13: ghostface, doc oc and muggs.

march 14: dat politics.
(don't even know them but a friend is opening so why not?).

march 17: justice yeldham and a bunch of noisers in guadalajara.

march 19: justice yeldham and a bunch of noisers in toluca.

march 20: justice yeldham and a bunch of noisers here.

april 12: coca cola zero festival with smashing pumpkins, the mars travolta, my morning jacket, bright eyes, my chemical romance and zillions of other bands. a friend wants to go and it wouldn't harm to listen to sp's old songs played by that cover band, plus my morning jacket!!! plus, i would be lying if i said i wouldn't want to see some mcr songs live.

april 13: CRYPTOPSY!!!!! (no venue confirmed yet, so perhaps it won't happen).

april 18: wolf eyes and drumcorps.

april 19: melt-banana and jamie saft with mike pride.

april 23: either cat power (still unconfirmed) or a performance of stockhausen's kontakte.

april 24: aeo (yamatsuka eye and taeji sawai) and optron.

april 25: elliot sharp, ikue mori and zeena parkins performing screen play by christian marclay.

april 26: anthony braxton: diamond curtain wall trio

may 2: maniqui lazer.

may 3: winters in osaka with I/C/O/C and amniosis.

may 27: ennio morricone (still not sure but would love to go).

Wow, where is this happening? I think this is the same piece Lee did with E# at MOMA last year that was so cool.

I bought a ticket for the Slits next week, in a small club. I don't go for reunions much but Thurston dug'em and I always loved the Slits. But thats late, beforehand I'll check out Gold Sparkle Band at Phantom Ear at Union Pool. Friday I'll see the early Zeena Parkins set at The Stone then head to the Living Theater to see Other Dimensions in Music. Oh yeah and Thursday I'm definitely heading to Union Pool to see Metal Mountains, a new trio of PG6, Samara and Helen Rush probably the closest I'll get to seeing the Tower Recordings this year. Sometimes living in NYC is ok.

mexico city.

I hope you will enjoy Dat Politics. They are good fun live, if you are into that sort of thing. Impressive schedule, by the way.

i hope that too, i'll have to check them out before going to the gig, of course.

well, it's the annual radar fest which is part of the festival of mexico which lasts like a month; last year it brought fennesz, otomo yoshihide, francisco lópez, fred frith and the gunter muller and associates from voice crack. it's a good time of the year.

I was at my own gig tonight. Duh. Sorry, I'm a bit drunk and full of emotions now. *burp*

God damn!
I saw Queens of the Stone Age on monday, and I think it was one of the best things that I've done in many years.
The last days I've been walking around all messed up in my head about this. I need more! Mooooore!

Woo! I'm dronk!

Don Carlos
Pato Banton fear Eek A Mouse
Half Pint
Madprofessor
the Itals
Wadi Gad feat Winston Jarrett
Steel Pulse

just recently saw
groundation
Ras Michael
Kiddus I and China Smith
anthony b
midnite
gregory isaacs
queen ifrika

dino jr, london. and on my birthday!

Is the Slits show at Maxwell's?