Posted: May 3rd, 2006 | Author: jimmy-hat | Filed under: FRICTION, drinking, events, general, music, nyc, tx | 5 Comments »
With Rothko closing their doors for a month or so to work on their Structural Violations, our Monthly Friction show has moved down the street to The Delancey. Get your tickets here!
What does this mean?
1. Same great bands – Ghostland Observatory, Favourite Sons, The Mugs, and DJ Gorgeous Undertow.
2. No asshole door guy telling you to stand all the way up on Houston to smoke a cigarette.
3. Same great Crackers to hang out with.
4. No asshole door guy not letting you back in after you went to the deli.
5. Awesome rooftop garden for before and after the show.
6. No asshole door guy…
Posted: April 28th, 2006 | Author: jimmy-hat | Filed under: general | 4 Comments »
Alright, so I think I might be going overboard with my
second RueB post, but Tuesday night I stopped by (of course) and the least I could do is post about what I saw. After getting into work at 7, taking a 15 minute lunch break around 4, screaming with stupid people till 8, trying to get a little work done till around 10,
I finally stopping by RueB for a little winding down and found
Hey Rim sitting at the piano playing some of the most amazing classical you would ever imagine to hear in the east village, not to mention a NY bar. The girl commutes from Boston every other Tuesday to play at a little bar in the East Village – I have been coming to RueB for
too many times a weeks for too many weeks and I have never heard an entire bar shut up, turn around, and sit quiet for 45 minute sets just to hear this girl lay down Chopin, Liszt, Handel…..
Imagine a standing room audience around a crappy little piano listening to music that would bring a man to his knees (while still holding his espresso martini of course). My advice to you is to make it by RueB on a Tuesday for no other reason than to have a nightcap and a listen to Hey Rim for at least one set. You will thank me in the morning.
Posted: April 20th, 2006 | Author: jimmy-hat | Filed under: FRICTION, Sites, events, general, music, nyc, tx | 3 Comments »
After the incredible Record Release party with Rahim, we are continuing to bring the forefront of indie rock with an incredible show as part of the KEXP live from NYC: bringing bands from our beloved Texas and of course our favorite NY locals. CU is at it again with Texas-favorite Ghostland Observatory and local heroes Favourite Sons and The Mugs with the Gorgeous Undertow at the booth all night long.
So leave the iPod at home, make sure to listen to the In Studio sessions with each of the bands on KEXP, get your tickets ahead of time, and come support live music and join us for an incredible Tuesday night at The Delancey.
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Ghostland Observatory is Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner, undoubtedly influenced by the likes of Daft Punk, Bowie and LCD, they offer up their own brand of electro-dance soul rock. It’s as if a piece of every musical genre of the past and present were blended together to create a keyboard. A keyboard that could only be used by this one band. We dare you to listen and not dance. [Gothamist]
Ghostland Observatory – streaming audio
If post-punk took one step back towards rock and added a dash of sentimentality, Favourite Sons might be the result…the lyrics and vocal work couple together in one of my favorite performances of the year. [You Ain't No Picasso]
Favourite Sons – Down Beside Your Beauty
The Mugs were tasty. well worth checking out. reminded me of something like a french kicks, but with a little big (just a touch) darker side though you wouldn’t have realized with their ear to ear grins. [Yeti Don't Dance]
The Mugs – Broken Signals
-In part with-
KEXP 90.3 FM [mp3 feed]
For those of you that aren’t familiar with this Seattle-based radio station, it’s the nation’s best independent radio station. Well, at least in our book. Be sure to tune into John in the Morning’s playlist everyday at 9AM (EST) and listen for songs from past and present FRICTION bands and other great independent artists. If you miss John’s show or any other KEXP program, KEXP’s streaming archive allows you to hear anything from the past two weeks in both Windows Media and Real format.
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L Magazine
The L Magazine is the only independent magazine left in our fair New York City. And we have our own pair of portable 35mm film projectors. L Magainze covers New York nightlife, politics, theater, shopping, fashion, restaurants, events in New York City, and especially Friction, the best night of the month.
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Posted: April 19th, 2006 | Author: jimmy-hat | Filed under: general, life, music, politics, tx | 7 Comments »
It was released last week that Neil Young is coming out with a new album, Living with War, completed in 3 days and highlights his opposition to the Bush adminsitration, the war, and anything else bad happening in the world. Though there are only a few ears who have heard the tracks, it is apparently an incredible album musically and lyrically.
Mind you, I am adamant hater of our favorite little Texan, but this still makes me ask a couple questions:
- we have been at war with Iraq for 3 years, Fahrenheit 9/11 came out in June of 2004, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith was stringing up people in the trees back in 2003 – don’t you think he is a little late for any kind of revolutionary anthem that will change the way people feel about our President or the war? Everyone already hates him!
- how would Canada like it if an American released an album about how bad THEIR government was? Oh right I forgot, Neil’s a self-declared citizen of the planet.
- seriously, the guy can’t really sing and is only decent at best on the guitar. Maybe the Dixie Chicks should pick up the vocals for him.
You know I am one of those weird people who does not really listen to the lyrics of songs and find my passion for music in the feel of a song musically more than lyrically. So, I rely on the experts to tell me if the lyrics are good or not and apparently this album is quite a gooder. I seem a little hesitant to listen to the experts when I see lines like:
impeach bush
Kerry was a push
impeach bush
he got no blow job
he’s giving snow jobs
impeach bush
he’s a mistake
nawlins a lake
rum’s a snake
osama’s a fake
bombs against a rake
And this one doesn’t really make me shudder with awe:
Let’s impeach the president for lying
Misleading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
Regardless of all this, I think the more we talk, the better. At this point there are few people who would ever defend what is left of our Preseident – so if Young is willing to continue his protest of the administration, I will support it 100% just for the sake of the protest not for continuing to put him on a pedestal that most would be too quick to do. Especially before the calls of ‘Neil Young For President’ start up.
Details are sketchy at best, but the featured song, “Impeach the President” contains Bush’s voice accompanied by a choir chanting “flip/flop.”
Classic. ?
For me, I will go back to my little bubble-world of music making me happy and turn up some more Lee Greenwood.
Posted: April 17th, 2006 | Author: jimmy-hat | Filed under: general, life, politics, tx | 2 Comments »
If you’re from Texas and have a lawyer or an oiler in the family, you have most likely heard of Joe Jamail, the King of Torts, who is worth over $1 billion (the only lawyer on The List) having made his fortune as a plaintiffs’ lawyer in Texas, representing such cases and Pennzoil v. Texaco for encroaching on its contract to purchase Getty Oil (winning a verdict for Pennzoil in the amount of $10.53 billion, the largest jury verdict ever at that time, and a $1 billlion fee for the King). Jamail didn’t get to where he is now by being a softee. In Paramount Communications Inc. v. QVC Network Inc., Jamail represented one of the Paramount directors – During the course of the case, Jamail was defending a deposition when the following exchange took place:
Q. . . . Do you have any idea why Mr. Oresman was calling that material to your attention?
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MR. JAMAIL: Don’t answer that. How would he know what was going on in Mr. Oresman’s mind? Don’t answer it. Go on to your next question.
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MR. JOHNSTON: No, Joe –
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MR. JAMAIL: He’s not going to answer that. Certify it. I’m going to shut it down if you don’t go to your next question.
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MR. JOHNSTON: No. Joe, Joe –
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MR. JAMAIL: Don’t “Joe†me, asshole. You can ask some questions, but get off that. You could gag a maggot off a meat wagon. . . . .
I love Texas. This guy has the football field at UT Austin named after him, but I have to admit there are some interesting people that come out of there. This video is a perfect example – Jamail is conducting a deposition, questioning a witness that appears to be a former Monsanto research scientist. I also love fat old men ready to rumble…
“That ain’t your job, fat boy” = awesome.
Posted: March 31st, 2006 | Author: jimmy-hat | Filed under: general | 1 Comment »
now this is some funny stuff.
I heart frank caliendo.
Posted: March 30th, 2006 | Author: jimmy-hat | Filed under: general | 16 Comments »
Hide your children, your ipods, and your bigass headphones because CU has grown a plus one. So let’s all give a big ‘hip-hip-hooray’ for Ric (profile soon to come). or how about a ‘monkey’. or a ‘toggaf’. ooh, how about a ‘boom’. or maybe just a ‘gay.’ or maybe Neal can just talk about his veined toys.
