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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: erika on March 14, 2008, 10:53:40 AM
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OK... ROLL CALL:
Who's going to this? I'm going just for the Friday shows, but not the whole festival.
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I'd only do Friday, too. It depends on where I'll be over the summer. If the FOT Mansion happens in D.C. I'll definitely make the trip.
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No FOT mansion for me, fellas - I'm sure it'd be a blast, but I'm an old man, and I will be housed either by my sis or the fine people at Woolly Mammoth Theater. That said, if I'm in DC I will gladly go on a Chinatown bus field trip. Or if I'm in NY I'll take the PATH. Let's keep the conversation a-goin'.
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I could walk there but I wouldn't look out my window to see any of those bands.
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I could walk there but I wouldn't look out my window to see any of those bands.
But... but it's Radiohead! They're so gooooood live.
You grumpus.
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I'll be going to the Saturday show mostly to see Radiohead. The lineup isn't all that great, although I wouldn't mind seeing The New Pornographers.
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Since Radiohead, The Go! Team and The New Pornographers are all on the same day, there's a good chance I'll get the one-day pass for Friday. Actually 89 bucks for those three is a pretty good deal, even if it does mean I'll have to endure hours of smelly summer heat.
How much are Radiohead tickets for a single concert going for these days, anyway? Probably about the same price.
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It was about $50 for Radiohead here.
Incidentally, further to Tom's intro to "That's not right" this past week, I just bought Kanye West tickets, and the Ticketmaster key thing I had to enter was: Javits Mockery.
It's a band name waiting to happen.
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It was about $50 for Radiohead here.
I'm (pleasantly) surprised! I figured they would be taking the Bjork route these days and charging 110 bucks per ticket.
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It was about $50 for Radiohead here.
Incidentally, further to Tom's intro to "That's not right" this past week, I just bought Kanye West tickets, and the Ticketmaster key thing I had to enter was: Javits Mockery.
It's a band name waiting to happen.
I think they gave it a 6.2 over at shovel.com
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did it again
you did it again
kickthebobo
did it again!
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someone who's more creative then myself should "find" the actual shovel review and post it here. it won't be too hard.
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I'm with Jason on this. I don't think I'd accept money to watch any of those bands, let alone pay for the privilege.
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Still, this could be an excuse for some sort of FOT after-party at my place, maybe.
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someone who's more creative then myself should "find" the actual shovel review and post it here. it won't be too hard.
I don't know what those quotation marks mean, but a quick google search turned this up:
Javits Mockery
The Generic Indie e.p.
Rating: 8.1
If you, like many others, are looking for some sincere indie folk/alt. country fusion to get you through the summer, then you should look no further than the lap-steel-drenched, glockenspiel-tinged stylings of Javits Mockery’s The Generic Indie e.p. The sprawling sophomore album from this Vancouver trio shows us a new side of The Mock—where their first album, Excessively Long Title That Vaguely References A Book We Think You’ve Probably Never Read was all about bringin’ the rock, the group has turned down their amps and brought out the campfire songs for Indie e.p. Stylistically, the album is a mixed bag—songs like I Left My Heart In The Trunk Of Your Car and Cat Dance are searing acoustic ballads guaranteed to rip your bleeding heart out at the seams and throw it at the nearest passerby, whereas tracks like the jazzy Futon Lover or the post-apocalyptic Pants Down take advantage of the boy-girl vocals used so brilliantly in Excessively Long—but usually consistently pretty okay. Certain tracks can be cringe-inducing (the inexplicable consistent feedback on Your Heart Is A USB Hub sounds, at best, like the worst of Metal Machine Music fighting with a stray lemur), but, all in all, The Generic Indie e.p. is melodic, melodramatic, beautiful, and a perfect soundtrack for spring. Kickass cover art, too.
Okay, now we can all go back to pretending I have a life.
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someone who's more creative then myself should "find" the actual shovel review and post it here. it won't be too hard.
I don't know what those quotation marks mean, but a quick google search turned this up:
Javits Mockery
The Generic Indie e.p.
Rating: 8.1
If you, like many others, are looking for some sincere indie folk/alt. country fusion to get you through the summer, then you should look no further than the lap-steel-drenched, glockenspiel-tinged stylings of Javits Mockery’s The Generic Indie e.p. The sprawling sophomore album from this Vancouver trio shows us a new side of The Mock—where their first album, Excessively Long Title That Vaguely References A Book We Think You’ve Probably Never Read was all about bringin’ the rock, the group has turned down their amps and brought out the campfire songs for Indie e.p. Stylistically, the album is a mixed bag—songs like I Left My Heart In The Trunk Of Your Car and Cat Dance are searing acoustic ballads guaranteed to rip your bleeding heart out at the seams and throw it at the nearest passerby, whereas tracks like the jazzy Futon Lover or the post-apocalyptic Pants Down take advantage of the boy-girl vocals used so brilliantly in Excessively Long—but usually consistently pretty okay. Certain tracks can be cringe-inducing (the inexplicable consistent feedback on Your Heart Is A USB Hub sounds, at best, like the worst of Metal Machine Music fighting with a stray lemur), but, all in all, The Generic Indie e.p. is melodic, melodramatic, beautiful, and a perfect soundtrack for spring. Kickass cover art, too.
Okay, now we can all go back to pretending I have a life.
emma, you rule!
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Still, this could be an excuse for some sort of FOT after-party at my place, maybe.
Do you have any yard space, Jason? If so, you could just section off a small section of it with chicken wire, or do what my dad did years ago (he has a couple of gardens that he tills with compost mulch every spring) and prop up some boards next to the garden (in his case, he used four sections of old shipping pallets) and just start dumping the collected compost material inside the walls. should have everyone over for a party on the first warm spring Saturday.
This will happen.
promise is promise.
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with the requisite American Apparel smut banner ad!
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A big hand for Emma and Kick The Bobo! I am quite impressed with all you youngsters.