Seeing Ryan/Man Man1 this weekend started me thinking about family, given or created. I’ve also been watching episodes of Intervention, a TV show about addiction and family. In particular I was impressed with Cristy’s family, a group of people who still love and support her (and enable her, but that’s another thing) despite her ten [...]

Tenth Man Man show in about a year. They keep getting better. Really. The show was supposed to start around midnight, but actually started sometime after, because the Spiegeltent had hosted one of their burlesque shows just before. Cover was $15, and there was no opening bands, but the line still stretched down the length [...]

Three Legged Race, Eagles Of Hair Metal @ Tonic | July 22 2006
The L train was down, and I was working on more useless internet crap, so
we missed the Bushwick arts thing, but still got to catch Keith Fullerton Whitman as part of the Eagles Of Hair Metal (with Alan Licht, Mike Berstein, Greg Kelley [...]

We Are Scientists
January 12, 2006
Bowery Ballroom
These guys. One (or two) good songs, dance beats, lead singer Keith Murray sounds like the dude from Midnight Oil, bassist has a mustache (funny!). Major label money. Live in Brooklyn. So many reasons to hate We Are Scientists, so I’m angry at them and myself for their sliding by [...]

I should put ‘digital camera’ on my Amazon Wish List
Christmas Singers
Bedford Ave and North 7
Dec. 23
After finishing a tough day of last minute errands before I go to Chicago tomorrow (to visit and to go to Pitchfork’s 10.0 New Year’s Show), I came out of the Bedford stop and heard this group of jokers playing [...]