Picked up Neil Young’s Prairie Wind album (from a cool little used record shop around midnight on Saturday night in Tacoma, but that’s another story) and been enjoying the opening track, The Painter, ever since.
One line stuck out to me:
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
I have no idea if the following is […]
The Painter and Following Your Dreams
10-25-08: Bridge School Benefit
This was probably the best Bridge School I’ve been to. Maybe. How can I even think about writing that sentence when I’ve seen Bridge Schools with Pearl Jam? With Counting Crows? With Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young? Maybe it’s just the fresh-in-my-memory-aspect, but it was a great show.
Cat Power: Arrived during the set, didn’t really […]
10-10-08: Cake at The Independent
Cake? Really? They’re still around? Indeed.
Caked performed a charity show for a San Francisco energy proposal which, very oddly, drew a crowd whose age averaged ~35 years old and didn’t seem like the type to normally attend concerts. At 26, I was one of the younger folks at the show.
The show was good but […]
10-3-08: Sigur Ros in Berkeley, CA
This Sigur Ros concert on Friday night was the start of an entirely insane weekend that included bars, Rock Band, ultimate, work, two parties, more bars, a rave, a diner, and a wedding. In addition to insane, ‘well-coordinated’ would be the 2nd best phrase to describe the weekend.
With regard to ‘well coordinated’: first, I found […]
8-24-08: Outside Lands in San Francisco, CA
Went to the Outside Lands festival on Sunday, mainly to see Bon Iver and Wilco. In fact, besides a couple minutes of Jack Johnson, I didn’t really pay attention to any of the other sets.
Bon Iver’s show was great. It felt quite different from the show at The Independent because of the stark change in […]
4-8-08: Eddie Vedder in Berkeley, CA
Good mezzanine tickets (2nd row in the small Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley) for Eddie Vedder in a solo-acoustic show supporting the Into the Wild soundtrack songs? Could this be the best concert I’ve ever been to?
A couple notes:
- Eddie brought out surprise guest Sean Penn and sang a little song about him. Pretty decent.
- Eddie commented […]
2-23-08: Bon Iver at The Independent
A well timed mention by my roommate and Paste conspired to bring Bon Iver (‘bone e-vair’ – ‘good winter’ in French) to my attention. I’m so glad they did.
Justin Vernon recorded For Emma, Forever Ago while living alone in a cabin in the middle of Wisconsin wilderness. I knew that fact going into the album […]
2-2-08 and 3-22-08: Nada Surf in San Francisco, CA
I wish I could remember why I bought Nada Surf’s second album in 2004. I had seen their music video Popular in high school (roughly 2000) … but I never checked out anything else. Mysteriously, my next memory of Nada Surf is in 2004: my senior year of college, listening to their second album in […]
2-1-08: Mercury Soul
After the Vampire Weekend show at 7pm in the Haight, I took the #7 bus to SOMA to check out a “groundbreaking event combining a 20-piece orchestra, DJs, lighting, and art installations” at Mezzanine by a group called Mercury Soul.
I can’t really give a proper review to Mercury Soul because, quite honestly, I wasn’t paying attention […]
2-1-08: Vampire Weekend
Tuesday: My roommate mentions Vampire Weekend
Wednesday: Vampire Weekend shows up in my feed reader … everywhere. (see at right)
Thursday: Roommate buys CD. A friend’s Facebook status mentions the Vampire Weekend
Friday: I go to a show.
The HYPE
The Vampire Weekend’s hype is defeaning. They are on every internet.
Now I haven’t read many of the blog posts so perhaps […]