Take a book name, combine with band name. Here's what I came up with in a few minutes:

• Snow Patrol Crash
• The Hunt for Simply Red October
• Barry White Oleander
• About a Badly Drawn Boy
• Cat on a Hot Hot Heat Roof
• I'm OK, You're OK, Go (edit: someone already had this one)

I don't really keep-up with podcasts, or lately, my RSS feeds and friends list, but when I have taken the time to catch up on a couple of podcasts, I find two music-related podcasts compelling tonics to the general pap of modern music:

NPR's All Songs Considered.

Bob Boilen directs All Things Considered. As part of the show, he's responsible for the bumps between stories NPR calls "Musical Interludes." He's also the host of the podcast/streaming only NPR show, All Songs Considered. The show has two sides. First, a generally weekly podcast that Boilen curates more than anything. In roughly half-an-hour, he'll run through six or seven songs, talk about what an artist is doing and why he's putting it in the show.

It appears all of the lots of really good shows are getting scheduled for June. Which makes up a bit for me not making it to Battles or the Arcade Fire or Flaming Lips or Modest Mouse.

• Tool in Winston Salem, June 13
• Feist in Greensboro, June 14
• Rush @ Walnut Creek, June 20
• Smashing Pumpkins @ the Orange Peel, Asheville (residency) June 23-July 5

Wait, what? The Smashing Pumpkins? Yes.

Unfortunately, we're going to have to be a little picky in what we go see. It'd be nice if these were a little more spread out.

Crowd/Carrboro f/3.2 @ 1/13 sec

Finally had enough time to wade through the Noisettes' set from last week's show at Cat's Cradle with TV on the Radio. Oh, wait, no that's almost two weeks tomorrow. Yes, life's been that crazy the last little while. A 16 hour day during the week, for instance.

Anyhow, there's more from the show over on Flickr. I'll be adding some more from both bands over the next few days.

iConcertCal, a concert calendar visualizer in iTunes, using the bands in your library. I've already found some new shows I didn't know about:

• Battles -- Mar. 24 @ Local 506
• Trans Am -- April 12 @ Local 506

[Via Kottke.]

Upcoming shows

• Josh Rouse @ Cat's Cradle -- Jan. 24 (going)
• Yo La Tengo w/ Portastatic || Rosebuds @ Cat's Cradle -- Feb. 5, 6
• Explosions in the Sky @ Cat's Cradle -- March 15 (going)
• TV on the Radio @ Cat's Cradle -- April 15 (tix on sale Jan. 20)
• Ratatat @ Cat's Cradle -- April 16 (tempting)
• John Vanderslice @ Local 506 -- April 26

American Hardcore

Went to the Colony last night w/ badger and Robin. Ehhh. Interesting from an anthropology perspective and some of the dissonance of comparison between seeing throbbing show footage set against interviews in front of Little Tykes swing sets. Best: H.R. of Bad Brains in D.C. with a stream of... well, I found the imagery funny. I'll let it surprise you.

Someone I wanted a little more screen time from: Kevin Seconds. Kevin and his (then?) wife Allyson ran the True Love Coffeeshop until they lost their lease, then reopened. But, I digress...

My complaint: Not being terribly into the music, I thought the film overstayed its welcome, just as everyone was wrapping up about the end of hardcore shortly after Reagan's second term started.

Other stuff

• Renewed LJ for another year. Yay.
• There's a documentary in progress about Helvetica. [via Daring Fireball] Helfuckingvetica.

Kings Barcade's annual Great Cover-up is coming and I wonder, might someone favor us by performing as Oingo Boingo?

• No more dancing at the Weaver Street Market. [Disclosure]
• Depp and Burton. Sweeney Todd. [via Digg]
• The Ditty Bops are cycling cross-country from show-to-show. I want their flag.
• "It's like a microcosm of the Beltway out on the trail." Growing pains and road rage on a DC area cycling trail.

I left work a couple of hours early on Tuesday, March 14 and drove to the closest previously announced Nine Inch Nails tour stop [1] in Richmond, Virginia. Three hours of driving on a beautiful afternoon in the lightest traffic I can ever recall going up I-85 and I-95.

I didn't have a firm idea of where I was going, just a venue name and the sense it was downtown. I would trust that something like a performance venue including the name "coliseum" wouldn't be hard to find. A couple of turns off of I-95, and indeed, I spotted the gathering tribe of goths and industrialites [2].

( Lengthy review continues... )

• Tonight: Night Three of the Great Cover-Up.
• Monday: Rogue Wave @ Local 506
• Wednesday: The American Analog Set @ Wetlands [1]
• March 14: NIN in Richmond, Va. Two nights later in Greenville, SC. [2]

I hope that at any of these shows that I'm not asked allegorical questions by drunk people interested in my camera as happened at The Bravery show in October.

1. Need to remember to drop off a membership form at Wetlands Monday...
2. That would make the Triangle or Winston-Salem date March 15? Maybe?

So, thanks to Cake for a kick ass show, even if there were crazies about. Thanks to ambermae for sticking out the show when instincts suggested "bolt." Oh, and I'm back from the midwest. Go figure.

Anyhow my top top three things from the concert:

1. Cake playing "Comfort Eagle." My favorite song of theirs. They played just about everything I wanted them to play apart from "Mr. Mastadon Farm"

2. Nathan Asher and the Infantry

3. "Grandma's Gonna Fly." A "metaphor" about grandmother of the lead singer of the band between Cake and Nathan Asher smoking weed at 92. Funny, if a bit silly.

My bottom three things from the concert:

3. The one sound guy for Cake. Yes. The one guy. Taking. A. Full. Hour. To. Change. Sets. Dude, yes it's uncool when people start throwing stuff at you, but understand, there were a few thousand of them, they're generally drunk and at least a little belligerent. You help your case by not demanding the house music (Thriller, with Vincent Price) be cut off while you do your thing (which the soundboard didn't do, correctly). You also help your case by not tuning everything twice.

2. The four drunk guys and the Nice Gimp. No one cares if you're a nice gimp. If you're a gimp in a large crowd and you stand behind people, yes, you're going to creep people out.

1. The pants-less crowd-surfer. Seriously, that's a no-no and I swear when you fell on the gal next to me, I would have understood when her boyfriend kicked your ass.

Secondly, thanks to Christine and grimepoch for a great party. Costumes were wonderful. Thanks for putting up with "programmer who flew into town that day and mumbles about being Donnie Darko, again."

More on the KC trip in the next day or so. Oddly, I still have stuff to say about it. Happy All Hallows Eve.

Work was mercifully short and broken up by a large segment of going outside for catered BBQ from Coopers at Halifax Park. This was followed by an energetic round of Frisbee. Then was the quaffing of sweet tea and still warm Krispy Kremes. Trudge back to the office with a tray of leftovers. Back in the office, we held another post-mortem with slightly different attendance. The final one with our development partner is Monday.

The evening, however, was far more exciting. badger returned an earlier ping and confirmed he was attending DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation at UNC's newly renovated Memorial Hall. Over the course of 90 minutes or so, Spooky reedited the film while working in a new soundtrack. Very, very impressive. Very.

Birth of a Nation is an amazing film. D.W. Griffith is widely credited with creating the feature film and, therefore, Hollywood. However, the film for all of it's artistic advancements is impossible to separate from it's message. Spooky holds it up, selecting pieces of the film to hold in repetition. "Look at this."

Not a bad weekend thus far, mostly quiet save for the intervals that keep the quiet from running into itself.

Friday: badger pinged. He and maegwynn invited me to go see Lord of War at Mission Valley. Worthwhile, but as with others, I wish the last 30 minutes had embraced more subtlety.

The weekend has been generally quiet, with a movie started, photo equipment purchased, training considered, a concert attended and lots of writing and reading. Ideas for more writing are still germinating.

Death Cab w/ another favorite, Stars, opening.

Oct 27, Disco Rodeo

$21.80 inclusive of "convenient hand-waving fee."

Untitled/Cape Lookout f 25 @ 1/100

Boat/Core Sound f 8 @ 1/500

I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel what it's like to be new...

Death Cab for Cutie -- Soul Meets Body

The new Death Cab album, out today, err yesterday, would have served as a fantastic soundtrack for my Sunday. Still digesting the implications of some conversations and homilies.

The rest of the Emerald Isle, Cape Lookout and Harker's Island set is up now.

In memorium, thanks Bob, for all you made possible.

Drag II/Bickett Gallery f 10 @ 5/8

Three Players/Bickett Gallery f 4.5 @ 1/10

Photos from Death Jazz at Bickett Gallery.

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OK, having been tagged by ambermae, to post five things I've been listening to, I give you my list:

So, via aklikins mention of the generator blog, someone has "Rush Albums that Never Were."

I give you Sequestered by Fire, which Rex describes as "an ironic take on the scott peterson trial." The suggestion for Hugh Syme's cover would be a courtroom in flames. Ow.