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Good Morning 2/15/10

Good morning, I’m envious of the folks that get to go the killer show at the Croc tonight. It’s a Sasquatch Festival preview/kick off and looks to be super fun. Although with all the good times this weekend, I’m due for an evening in. The SSWSW DVD release yesterday was pretty amazing and fun, there was so much talent in that little theater at the Rendezvous, it was kind of amazing. My ears are still ringing with Sax solos.

I hope you had a happy Valentines. As Kimya Dawson said: “Be your own Valentine first and foremost. If there is no one to please you— please yourself”. That’s all, except Ursula found some pads and made something rad. Happy Monday.

Good Morning 2/12/10

Good morning, late morning that it is, or rather afternoon now. The week ends with some thoughts on Seattle. Our City has Reggae Rock on it’s hold music by Kore Ionz, it sponsors a music party in Austin at SxSW (which I am already sick of hearing about and it’s not even March). How do I know about this weird Mr. Hyde support our City government gives to music while Dr. Jeckyll simultaneously tries to shut down venues (under the old Mayor Nickels guard at least)? A pretty neat email newsletter I get and actually read. You can sign up and get it too from the City’s Office of Music. That’s all, except for the fact that this week I have noticed five people (all dudes) holding a finger to a nostril and blowing snot on the street. Like driving and brushing teeth, another disgusting trend.

Now, back to the music…

Good Morning 2/11/10

Today you can laugh in the face of leukemia with Eugene Mirman and Todd Barry here in Seattle. Do it, and please laugh loudly. I saw two people brushing their teeth while driving on my way to work today, I have never seen this before. Is it one of those things where once you notice it you see it everywhere? I did, and found it bizarre. Where do they spit? I should have videoed it for Youtube. On that note, Youtube becomes more interesting than kids ghost-riding-the-whip for a day; Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing is curating the featured videos, now I have something to do while I eat lunch at my desk. Design smart guy Andrio Abero did a really nice poster benefitting the people in Haiti (lookout below), if you design as well, you can submit a poster candidate to the curators that thought up this great project too. Do it. Andrio also has been featured on a McDonalds billboard smiling next to the slogan I’m lovin’ it which they put in front of his office building in Seattle when he lived here for Karmic reasons, but I love him most for designing The Vera Project’s website and millions of our posters when he was Vera’s in house designer. There are two bands playing at Vera that I am very excited about, Washed Out and Surfer Blood. Thanks to Jonathan for turning me on to them, and Happy Birthday dude. That’s all. Oh and…

…save the dates:

Wednesday March 31 | 7:30 PM
Small Black
Washed Out
Pictureplane
$11 ($10 w. club card)


Sunday April 4 | 7:30 PM
Surfer Blood
Turbo Fruits
$10 ($9 w. club card)

Good Morning 2/10/10

Good morning, I’m glad to see Cienna Madrid is back as a staff writer at The Stranger, she’s charming and a damn good at what she does (this news is announced in A. Birch Steen’s column, and I’d link but the paper is out before their website has been updated to this week’s edition, odd). Looking forward, I wish I could be in two places at once tomorrow to see the Defriending Cancer show at the Moore Theatre with Isaac Brock, James Mercer and other comedy giants. Alas, I will be learning new songs with my band. Well wishes to the Murder City Devils for a good time in the snow for their East Coast shows. For a romantic Valentines Day, I am looking forward to SoSpunWeSpunWest’s DVD release party at the Rendezvous on Sunday 2/14. Their vastly disturbing/highly entertaining takes on the mendacity of infomercials, the joy of telethons, and ‘ganizing are delightful. They are geniuses (hear me Stranger?). Yesterday I played with Threadsy to put all social media in it’s place, or one place, and it’s highly distracting but very functional despite it’s occasional tardiness with delivery of all the instant news I didn’t really need to know instantaneously. That’s all, unless you count the opening of the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle today. With this news, we are officially one step closer to becoming a City of Music like Austin, TX, that we so desire to be.