10.14.07
Posted in cricket spazzes, hot live action, a little bit rock and roll, cory branan - October 14th, 2007 at 1:05 pm by Cricket
Hi guys! I’m fresh back from Philadelphia which I loved so much I think y’all should move it to the top of your lists of places to visit. In line with our jet setting lifestyles, Mimi is now in LA, leaving Daisy and I to prove we can have fun without her. Left to our own devices we did the only thing we could do that would 100% guarantee fun, we went to a Cory Branan show. [Cory Branan: A guaranteed Good Time—Daisy]
I’ll admit, we just went to see Cory. I knew there were other bands on the bill, I’d read their names in the show listings, thought about looking them up, just never quite got to it. Yes, I’m copping to not doing my homework before a show. Some days I’m just lazy. So anyway, Daisy and I put on cute shoes, grabbed our handbags and our gentlemanly chaperone, Chris Milam, and headed on down to Ye Olde 3 Crow Bar to see some music. We ran into Cory B. as soon as we came in, he assured us that he loved both the bands and that we’d have a great time. Since we love Cory, we took his word for it, but maybe with a grain of salt. Imagine my surprise when I fell in love with the first band during the first song.
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10.13.07
Posted in some albums we done liked others we ain't, hot live action - October 13th, 2007 at 3:40 pm by Mimi
Music comes to us in a myriad of ways. Some people send us their CDs in the mail. Sometimes we stumble across MySpaces that blow us away. Our friends shove CDs into our hands and mp3s into our inboxes.
Brian Wright and the Waco Tragedies came to me through a friend effusing over him.
“Who?” I said.
“What do you mean?” She said.
“I don’t know this dude.” I said.
“AHAHAHA! Awesome!” She said.
What she meant was “I know a band that you don’t!” People love to gloat over that, as you can well imagine. But I didn’t take it to heart since she immediately hooked me up and gave me detailed play-by-play about how totes awes he was and so on. (That’s me being funny, she’s actually quite articulate.)
The actual story she related to me that made me listen to his music involved him, during a show, complimenting an audience member for requesting a song with the addendum please and him ordering shots of Maker’s from the stage. A man who prizes politeness and drinks our drink of choice? Saddle it up, I’ll give it a listen!
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10.01.07
Posted in podcast - October 1st, 2007 at 7:56 pm by Cricket
Once again it’s podcasting time! This go ’round Tommy Womack came to spend part of his afternoon talking to us and singing for us. He’s been in bands you might have heard of, Government Cheese and the bis-quits. He plays amazing solo shows, recently bringing spoken word into his sets to great effect. He’s written a couple books, The Cheese Chronicles and The Lavender Boys and Elsie (which isn’t yet available, so after you listen to this call your favorite publisher and beg them to make this book available to you, though you can read parts of it here, on Tommy’s site).
His new album, There I Said It! is available now and full of songs he might describe as being full of middle-aged anxiety, politics and not a little joy. They are surprisingly universally applicable, given the subject matter.
We sat down with him on one of the first lovely crisp days of fall, talked about growing up, touring, his books and songs and his life. During the set he played:
Alpha Male & the Canine Mystery Blood
Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)
A Nice Day
I Couldn’t Care Less
Cockroach After the Bomb
I Miss Ronald Reagan
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