by divadavoo on 08. Nov, 2009 | 1 Comment
The last Hypnogaja show of the year, and we caught it ~ for FREE! The band on Facebook will send out invites and then if you RSVP or print out the invite, you get into the venue for free. Very nice, although I would pay to see this band. They are a rock band that [...]
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Wilco set list: 10/18/09 (Chicago, IL; UIC Pavilion)
1 Wilco (The Song)
2 A Shot in the Arm
3 Bull Black Nova
4 You Are My Face
5 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
6 One Wing
7 Misunderstood
8 At Least That’s What You Said
9 Deeper Down
10 Impossible Germany
11 It’s Just That Simple
12 I’ll Fight
13 Handshake Drugs
14 Sonny Feeling
15 Jesus, Etc.
16 Theologians
17 I’m Always In Love
18 Hate It Here
19 Walken
20 I’m The Man Who Loves You
Encore:
21 You Never Know
22 Heavy Metal Drummer
23 Just a Kid
24 Kingpin
25 Monday
26 Outtasite (Outta Mind)
27 Hoodoo Voodoo
28 I’m a Wheel
I was traveling through Ohio on business and I was in Cleveland. Reading the local rag, I realized I had just missed the show there by a day. The next show date was Cincinnati, and it was one of the last dates of this tour. Luckily, Cincinnati was my next destination, so this concert was [...]
So the other night, I saw this documentary called, “District 9.” It’s all about this guy named Steve (or Michael; I can’t remember which, so I’ll call him “Wikus”) who works in a boring office. I think the place is called Dunder-Mifflin. There’s also a TV documentary about him… but he doesn’t have an accent [...]
I LOVE Lord of the Rings. I do. And I love The Hobbit
which I am patiently waiting for. (Side note, I still own The Hobbit on VHS).
I read The Lord of the Rings
as a child and re-read them as an adult. When I worked in a group home for boys, I read it to them. [...]
My prevailing thought this morning, after seeing L.A.-based rock band Hypnogaja live at The Viper Room (great live music venue once owned by Johnny Depp): I need to go out and see more local bands.
Seriously, Hypnogaja’s music is superior to 95% of the music we hear on Rock, New Rock and Modern Rock radio.
To my [...]
My favorite movie of all times is
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990) ~ the screenplay was done by Tom Stoppard, the same man who wrote the play by the same name (first staged in 1966). The movie stars Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss and Joanna Roth. I actually still have a VHS [...]
This was my wife’s and my second time seeing the Decemberists. Last time at the Paramount, this time at one of the nicest outdoor venues in the Puget Sound area. Their opening guests were Blind Pilot and Andrew Bird, both of whom were extremely good in their own right.
The Decemberists were amazing. I appreciated the new music and [...]
These pix and tix are from my trip to Disneyland in 1997 ~ which is funny to me now (12 years later) because I now live so close. I had never been to Disneyland as a child, but got to go as an adult (I was 23 or so). The cool part was that my [...]
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by Benjamin Holcomb on 29. Jun, 2009 | 2 Comments
1987 was my Junior year in high school. I remember really liking REO Speedwagon when I was in, like, elementary school. That would be around the time of REO’s “Hi Infidelity” which featured killer tracks like, “Don’t Let Him Go,” “Keep On Loving You,” and “Take It on the Run.”
I’m pretty sure REO had a [...]
by b1xx1b on 27. Jun, 2009 | 1 Comment
For me it is always a treat to go downtown to see a play. This performance was especially good because it starred Cherry Jones , a theater favorite!
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Wynonna is a rock star and we went backstage to meet up with her after the show.
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I don’t remember a lot about this show, except the following:
1) A Sea of Black clothes
2) Sweat. Lots and lots of sweat
3) Some jackass imitating Eddie Vedder by doing the backwards “dead fall” from the balcony into the crowd.
by divadavoo on 25. May, 2009 | 2 Comments
I had never heard of Calobo before this show. I was in Portland going to Grad School and had some great friends that also lived there that I knew from Michigan where I grew up. They invited me to see Calobo and to hang out for the day. The Rose Garden is a beautiful outside amphitheater [...]
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Ahhhhh…. this was an amazing show, with opening artist, Paula Cole, who had released the album “Harbinger” (1994) ~ Later became more well known for the single “Where have all the cowboys gone” on her next album “This Fire“. She was a cutie with short hair, black clothes and black boots. At the time I [...]
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I have great memories of this show. Or rather, I am told great things happened at this show. Lemme explain:
I was 21 years old in 1991, and I had a great friend guru, named Ernie. Ernie is probably 10 years old than me. He is a brilliant, eloquent, tall brother with enormous dreadlocks and fantastic [...]
by Benjamin Holcomb on 20. May, 2009 | No Comments
This was a significant, very important show for me.
Thanks to having two older brothers, I was practically weened on old Pink Floyd records. I spent summers at camp in Northern Michigan listening to “Dark Side of the Moon,” “Animals” and “The Final Cut.”
The latter album, Pink Floyd’s last featuring founding member Roger Waters, was my [...]
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