Category: Music
Death Cab for Cutie / Postal Service / Pedro the Lion – Santa Barbara Bowl – 10/14/2023
So, retro concerts are kind of becoming a thing. Or, maybe they’ve been a thing for a long time. I see coming up on my calendar a Weezer/Smashing Pumpkins tour which feels very 1996-2000 ish to me. In any case, I bought tickets to the DC4C and PS show almost five months ago. I didn’t…
Jimmy Eat World
Paso Robles
Munchhausen By Proxy
Okay, so I love Zooey Deschanel. Case in point: The short version is she has style, intelligence and is ridiculously cute. So, she was in Yes Man with Jim Carey this winter. I thought it was great fun. Her “pretend” band Munchausen By Proxy has several songs in the movie I recently purchased on iTunes…
Please, Give me a Second Grace
I am going to cross-link to this post primarily because it\’s awesome and I want to be able to find it again later should the need arise. I\’ll do this in the guise of some commentary on commentary… How appropriate to the web. I found the following commentary on music in The Royal Tenenbaums. In…
Papillon Parade
I just really liked this image after listening to Masterfade by Andrew Bird.
Gibson SG
So, I picked my guitar last night after probably over a year. It was nice to realize that I still have very aspect of “Say it Ain\’t So” and “Everlong” memorized. I even took the time to learn a new song. Oh, I’ve missed my guitar. Perhaps more interesting was my distant, nostalgia about “Everlong.” …
Andrew Bird
I attended the Andrew Bird show on Wednesday evening. It was a really great time. Their opener was a band called Lonely, Dear who was also awesome. I\’m not quite sure how to describe the opener. They are from Sweden and used strange noises in harmony to great effect. I couldn\’t tell much about the…
Some Musicology?
I attended Opera at the Grand. The Grand, by the way, is a super-cool theatre. It’s obviously from the 30s and very art-deco, despite the fact that it is relatively small. It comes from a time when people cared about the appearance of such things beyond is it “clean” and is it “functional.” I still…
Weezer – The how and why?
Weezer. A band that for many people of approximately 25-31 conjures up images of middle school to high school listening to \”Say it Ain\’t So\” while riding in a car to some destination of young fantastical (only in our minds) whimsy. Similarly, the name Weezer conjures images of the greatness of the infamous second album,…