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A couple of my favorites in the 2005 LA Weekly Music Awards nominations: BEST POP/ROCK BAND The Randies (Some very sweet people in this band) The Sugarplastic The Movies Orson Marjorie Fair BEST HIP-HOP/RAP ARTIST/DJ Z-Trip Dakah 8-Bit (some very funny drunk people in this group) Peanut Butter Wolf Saul Williams Full list can be found here

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So my friend made it out to the Hit Me Baby, One More Time taping while I collected much needed cash from my new roommate. From my friend's email today: Yeah, it was good fun. We got to be in the dancing section so it was pretty cool. But the dancing section doesn't get to vote. But I think it was pretty obvious who was gonna win by the cheers from everyone. Tiffany was awesome, but she didn't get to autograph my shirt. At one point, she saw my shirt and pointed at me. Pretty neat. The shirt is an original turquoise off the shoulder torn sweatshirt from the Tiffany tour back in the 80's that she bought when she was 8. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thursday: at the Punk Rock Social - Live : The Badbeats, Blockage, the Dollyrots and Visqueen (with Ronnie Barnett of the Muffs currently playing bass). Don't be lame - The Anarchy Library is small, 2 buck newcastles tonight and some great bands for only 5 bucks.

Good thing: Found a roommate. Another good thing: Kiss or Kill nights at the Echo. Midway Theresa and Kevin and the Midway beer helmet "In Heaven, There's No Beer" sing-along and Nu-tra with cheerleader I think having Monday off for the holiday had put everything out of whack for most folks. People seemed weird or not happy, or just plain old tired I guess. Kept asking if I was imagining the weirdness in the air or if it was just me being lame again. 50/50 response on that. Missed the Oxford Set, but heard some good things about them afterwards. Midway got up and played great as always, and did an excellent job warming up the crowd. I personally didn't get into the feel of things until the last few songs and I felt like I didn't give them my fullest. I can see how playing the first two, or three slots must suck sometimes with a sober crowd just starting to drink and not quite in the music mindset yet. That's how I was feeling. Nu-tra did well with their ...

Spent the holidays watching Back to the Future 1-3 and attempted the whole Karate Kid series, but gave up through KK2. Back to the Future brought back some great memories even though 1985 wasn't all that special. Come to think of it, 8th grade kinda sucked. I'm going to buy a delorean when I win the lottery and I don't care what you think about them ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tonight Kiss or Kill with Midway and Bang Sugar Bang. Thursday: The Badbeats, Blockage, the Dollyrots and Visqueen at the Punk Rock Social This will be an amazing show with 2 dollar Newcastles too. Oh I have tickets to see the taping of the show Hit Me Baby, One More Time with Tiffany! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read this sad but fascinating story about Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) on sfgate.com Cruel disease turns sufferers into statues UCSF starting world's 2nd center on rare disorder that causes crippling bone growth

This sounds like fun Thanks to Sean Bonner for posting tons of info and links at blogging.la for this artshow by the French artist Invader . I've seen a few posts about these gurilla art installations going up here in LA, so I think I'm going to check this out. Description from the sixspace site On June 14, sixspace will experience an invasion with RUBIKCUBISM - a logical exhibition by French artist Invader featuring mosaics, video installation, and both small and large-scale sculptures. For the past five years, Invader has conducted worldwide "invasions" with custom site-specific mosaic pieces based on the 1978 video game "Space Invaders" created by Toshiro Nishikado; the streets of Paris, Tokyo, New York, London, and Los Angeles (among many others) have become components in his public art planetary invasion Full Press Release

Missed the Atomic Missiles AND Silver Needle. That sucked. Stupid radiator hose made me late. Talked to some folks during my 2 PBRs about two fisting...beers. Rambled on with Midway Kevin and briefly Emily, Sean ( Blockage !) and Juliagulia (coolia), Matt from Bang Sugar Bang was being an Eeyore instead of his Tigger self, but some days are just like that. Gave Laura Randie hello hugs three or four times. The Randies played great and I sang along with a very drunk Joe for some small bits. Said hi to people. Made a point to stop people I know of, but didn't know as they walk by to talk them up. Twice asked people what their real names were since a lot of people go by nicknames, and then felt dumb when those were their actual names. Re-introduced myself to Omega from So Unloved, but mostly wanted to tell her that they played a great set last night. Meet one the members of this band Helicopter Helicopter that I've been digging lately (they play 5.26 and 6.21). Also bugged the he...

4.30: Left work looking forward to taking a nap before Kiss or Kill. 5.15: Car starts overheating and I’m @ 20 miles to my house. With steam billowing out of my hood, I pulled off into a park in La Habra to wait for it to cool off and play video porker on my cell. This park is old, but well kept up, with early 60’s design to it. It still has some of those metal climbing structures shaped like a rocket that you don't see anymore. 5.30: Wondering why me and how am I going to get this fixed. 5.45: Filled radiator with water from a water fountain. Start car and the water is streaming out a tear in the radiator hose. Not good. 5.50: Two girls are walking by and startled me when they said hi. Both lay out on a blanket nearby together. This friendly couple is in stark contrast to the lame group who stare me down while I was filling up an empty Pepsi bottle. Any other day I would so out snob them, but I’m not feeling so great about myself right now. 6.00 Drove down to the Auto Z...

If it wasn't for my friend Corey nagging me to post again, I think I would've fallen into that trap where the real world takes more importance that blogging. Sorry, life gets in the way from boring posts proving the world is secretly robert-centric but no-one has caught on yet. Lets recap: I did nothing all week. Went to work Monday, half a day on Tuesday and some on Thursday. Then I didn't leave my house until Sunday night to see Midway at the Viper Room. Nothing like 70 degree late nights after the unbearable inland heat and banana flavored Dick Tarts. Looking forward to Kiss or Kill on Tuesday: Atomic Missles, Silver Needle, Nu-tra, The Randies, and So Unloved. When I first saw So Unloved they sounded like the band Hole and the second time was much more screamo. As their myspace page notes "L7 meets Rancid". Curious to see how they do tonight after the musically wide ranging line up tonight. Something for everyone at Kiss or Kill. Oh Kork has a big billboard ...

I'm horrible at Jumble, and crosswords are okay at the easier levels for me since my vocabulary is pretty darn weak IMO. I was reading this article from WIRED on how this game Sudoku is taking over the puzzle sections in the UK. The goal is to fill every grid, column and row with numbers one through nine, without repeating numbers. So the first line would look like this: Easy? There is a free trial at the Sudoku site

Hmm. We're an iconic late 80's rock band from Australia, our singer killed himself...why don't we do a reality show! INXS Rock Star Created by Mark Burnett who has an amazing track record with reality shows (Survivor, The Apprentice) so I imagine it will entertaining when it finally comes on CBS. Not that I was a big INXS fan or anything, but the idea to use a reality show just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. I have a feeling a lot of Americans will be surprised to find out that Michael Hutchence committed suicide in November of 1997. I was surprised that it has been eight years already. I only fear the torture of "I need you tonight" becoming a hit again. inxs rockstar ,

I had one of the crappiest days at work yesterday. All the stupidity that started on Monday came to a head resulting in me being offended by someone blaming me for their mistake, hanging up on them mid-sentence, and a staff meeting with the owner and all of management. I calmly and slowly put this co-worker (who is supposed to be my assistant) in her place, point by point, dissecting every sentence of her misguided belief of being correct. God I hate myself for it, but I nearly made her cry. I backed off knowing I made my point clear to her, since everyone else knew she was already wrong and way out of line. I've done a few years of retail management and twice as much in this company, and I try to treat my co-workers as equals, but sometimes you just have to pull rank when their self importance interferes with the management structure. I'm asshole and I hate myself for being forced to do that, but I've been put in my place a few times before I learned that we are all dispo...

A montage of close-ups - quick cuts between each: Her eyes lips the curve of her eyebrow mouth lips Her eyes (my favorite part) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One night, large crowd. Arms slightly touching. I noticed the second time and the third. We easily could've moved away from each other like strangers normally would. I looked around the room to see if she or anyone else noticed, but never got a look back. Another night, another large crowd. Bouncing until the music was over with stranger's arms around my neck and waist. Found myself holding her hand and wondered how I grabbed it by accident or if she did. Felt it a few seconds too long as our fingers slowly slipped away from each other.

Sonntag It's a good sign when you walk into a club in the middle of a band's set and like what you hear. That's what happened when I got to the House of Blues last night with my first introduction to Sonntag . This is the description from their cd baby link where you can buy the cd: Not your typical girl vocalist. Bumpy bass lines, electro beats and synth bits woven together by electric guitars that owe as much to punk-garage as they do to James Bond. This soundscape providing the backdrop to passionate tales of everyday existence. Walked around the place a bit and came upon this real cute girl handing out Sonntag stickers and pushing the CDs aggressively. I think she mentioned they had CDs at least four times. Attempted signing up for the mailing list with a sharpie, which is slightly better than using a piece of charcoal. 2nd band: Good. Corey thought that they had very poppy Matchbox 20 type of sound. Mainstream stuff. I was bored mostly because of how much I liked Son...

Typical. So now my room-mate is screwing me over and is moving out this weekend. My fault for not having a more solid rental agreement with him. Maybe this is a payback of bad karma. I was talking to my sister last week about him and mentioned that he was a few days late with his rent. When she found out he was an actor, she laughed her ass off. "He's an actor for Christ sakes!" More laughter. "What did you expect?" This coming from someone who makes a living as a musician (classical). Funny to think that there might be some perceived hierarchy in the art world where each group looks down on all the others. Things to do Tue: Kiss or Kill Club at Spacland tonight instead of the Echo ----- Los Abandoned at the House of Blues - sunset (this should be fun) Fri 5.10: MIDWAY at the Scene in Glendale

WARNING - rant about co-workers 1) You stupid fuck. This is a fax machine . It is an amazing piece of office equipment that has been around in this form for decades (decade=10 years). Please learn how to react when paper with your name comes sputtering out the machine. It has your name on it. It is to your attention. This means you have to address the reason as to why said paper is being sent to you. I'm not surprised that you are a Raider fan. 2) You stupid fuck. No the other one who is blowing the the stupid meth-head, cheating on wife who just popped out your fourth child, since the both of you don't know what birth control is or how to use it, that is listed in item no.1 above. I gave you that important order for England two weeks ago. How dare you transfer the head sales-rep in England to me about this. As I said before taking the call, I gave you this. "You did? Why would I have it?" you asked. IT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB TO ENTER ORDERS, THAT'S WHY! YOU ENTE...

I made it out to Hollywood by 5 pm and wasted time walking around Hollywood and Highland for a couple hours. Underwater City People Beauty and the Beast / Sienna from The Randies and Kevin from Midway Bobot Adrenaline More blurry pictures at my flickr account. I'll have them all posted by this afternoon, but you can look at these for now. tag: kiss or kill , kork , knitting factory

This is the strangest google search that has led to this site: myspace san OR francisco OR california "kevin is" -backstreet -nsyc -federline -costner -spacey -bacon -kline -brigham -ernst -adult -steve Someone actually typed all this and I have to wonder whats up with their people named Kevin fascination. This blog was 34th on the list.

Friday at the Knitting Factory was of course the Kiss or Kill Compilation 2 release party I've been posting about lately. Amazing amount of fun that I will be posting about more on Monday with some blurry pics to share too. Think I'm going to see The Aviator at the dollar theatre today. so not exciting, huh?

Los Abandoned Photo by Lissa Hahn Free Los Abandoned show - May 10th at the House of Blues - Sunset Strip. They have been opening a bunch shows for label-mates Tegan and Sara lately, but all you need to know is that they are a fun, energetic band that you will fall in love with. Must email your info to be on the list (unlimited) here Listen to some samples here on their myspace page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sara Radle Photo by Alayna Morris (www.grid-9.com) Sara Radle is officially moving out to Los Angeles in a few months and I hope this means she'll be playing shows. I missed her when she came to LA with her band Lucy Loves Schroeder a few years ago, but made sure to catch two of her solo (with band) stops last year. SHe just finished recording a new version of one her songs with Matt Sharp (Weezer, The Rentals) for her next album. Sara's myspace page tags: sara radle , los abandoned