New Year's Countdown: 3 Days

I've collected some lists from other websites about what's happening locally and around the world. What is a blogger other than a copy+paster of info? (thanks to Google, Pitchfork, SDdialedin, Aol, etc)

San Diego:

Big Night San Diego
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, 1380 Harbor Island
Sunday, December 31, 2007, 9:00 pm - 2:00 am
Tickets: $109.99 per person (advance purchase, all-inclusive, 21 and up only). VIP tickets also available
This event has become popular with young adults because of its size and the price is all-inclusive of food and drink. Big Night features 12 party areas including casino and Mardi Gras areas, six dance floors, party bands and DJs. No big name bands, but lots of partying and dancing.
TARD-O-METER: 8 of 10 tards



National Comedy Theatre
December 31, 2007
3717 India St., San Diego
Tickets are $69 per person
The National Comedy Theatre will present its annual New Year’s Eve Spectacular. Similar in style to Drew Carey’s “Whose Line is it Anyway,” the National Comedy Theatre (NCT) is a high-octane improvisational comedy show based completely on audience suggestions. In addition to the regular performance, there will be catered food, and an after-show party with the cast, culminating in a countdown to the New Year. The show has received national acclaim and is appropriate for all audiences.
7 Tards


New Year’s Yacht Party 2007 :
December 31, 2007, 8pm-1am
Ticket price: $179 per person (advance purchase)
Saunter aboard the largest private charter yacht in Southern California and enjoy unlimited beer, wine, top shelf liquors, hors’ devours, chocolate fountains and other tasty delights. This event will feature 3 levels of music including a Hip-Hop dance deck, a legendary 80’z all-stars cover band and a variety of smooth tunes on the open air deck. Enjoy the best view of fireworks in San Diego.
9 Tards


Scolari's Office:
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Also...
# Transfer, Get Back Loretta, Vitro, Microphone Mike @ Ken Club
# Punkaraoke, Wild Weekend @ Tower Bar
# FM 94.9 presents The Aggrolites, Grand Ole Party, Beatmo @ Belly Up
# May*Star's Fashion Whore/Club Pop Noir feat Edgartronic, Groundfloor, Wendy Darling @ Beauty Bar $20, includes 2 hours of open bar
# Pete Stewart and the Plastic Saviors, Vocoder, "Deadbirdz on Wax" DJs @ San Diego Sports Club
# Pierce The Veil, Suicide Silence, Stick To Your Guns, The Warriors, Lower Definition, The Faceless, Elysia, His Irate Life, Carnifex, Misdelphia, Tragedy&Triumph @ Soma
# Ziggy Shuffledust and the Spiders From Mars, The Baja Bugs @ Bar Pink Elephant
# NYE Party @ U-31 ($40 includes open bar)
# No Kontrol Dance Party @ Whistle Stop
# Reverend Horton Heat, Hank III, Nashville Pussy @ House of Blues
# Electric Waste Band @ Winston's (no cover)
# Anti Monday League presents New Year's Eve with Mother Hips, Billy Midnight @ Casbah



LA/OC:


Staples Center

1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA
The early-to-bed crowd can catch a Clippers/Timberwolves matchup at 6:30pm.
No tards, basketball is fun to see live. However, tard basketball would be better, so 1 tard.


Disneyland

700 W Ball Rd, Anaheim, CA
The park stays open until 2am and features two fireworks spectaculars, one at 9:25pm and a "Fantasty in the Sky" show at 11:59pm.
I love Disneyland--but so do tards. 2 gay tards.



Eagles of Death Metal

Dec 31, 2007 The Roxy Theatre
Ring in the new year with old school-style garage rock at this classic Sunset Strip venue. $51.50 + two drink minimum.
Meh, they still get one tard.


Hard NYE

Dec. 31st, 2007 Downtown LA
This is where I'll be--Justice, Peaches, MIA, 2 Live Crew, DJ's galore, circus performers,4 block in LA. Check the post below for more info.
No Tards!!! But prolly a lot of indie stupids




Rest of the World

CHICAGO

Spoon, The Sea and Cake - Metro
Switch - Smart Bar
Black Kids, These Are Powers - Empty Bottle
Jon Brion - Harris Theater

NEW YORK CITY

Patti Smith - Bowery Ballroom (early show)
Les Savy Fav - Bowery Ballroom (late show)
Dirty Projectors, Cex, Ecstatic Sunshine, WZT Hearts - Knitting Factory
The Dresden Dolls - Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center
Earl Greyhound, The Big Sleep - Mercury Lounge
Mr. Brownstone ("The World's Drunkest Guns N' Roses Tribute Band", also features "fully tended bar on stage", "massive Guitar Hero contest with final on-stage battle", "raffle to join band on stage for a song") - Music Hall of Williamsburg
Dean & Britta - Maxwell's (in Hoboken)
Gogol Bordello - Terminal 5
Nellie McKay - Joe's Pub
Slick Rick, Kudu, Moby (DJ set), Holy Ghost (DJ set) - Studio B

LOS ANGELES

Justice (DJ set), Peaches, 2 Live Crew, Busy P, A-Trak - HARD New Year's Eve Music Festival
Rufus Wainwright, Belinda Carlisle - Walt Disney Concert Hall
Bloc Party (DJ set), The Rapture (DJ set), Talib Kweli - Roosevelt Hotel
Dengue Fever - Temple Bar
MSTRKRFT - Giant Maximus
Nas, Salt-N-Pepa - House of Blues

SAN FRANCISCO

The Mars Volta (acoustic and electric sets), Peanut Butter Wolf, The Eternals, Nobody - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Diplo - Temple Bar
Junior Boys (DJ set) - Mezzanine
Earth, Neurosis (includes free show-only Tribes of Neurot/Earth 7") - Great American Music Hall
Melvins, Comets on Fire - Slim's
Patton Oswalt - Cobb's Comedy Club

MIAMI
R. Kelly - American Airlines Arena

PHILADELPHIA

Datarock, Low B - Electric Factory

OKLAHOMA CITY

The Flaming Lips - Cox Center
Evangelicals, Starlight Mints - Cox Center (Flaming Lips pre-show)

ATLANTA

Band of Horses - The Earl
Black Lips - Drunken Unicorn

LAS VEGAS

Kanye West - The Pearl

WASHINGTON, DC

Georgie James - Rock and Roll Hotel

MINNEAPOLIS

Brother Ali - 7th St. Entry

PORTLAND

Wu-Tang Clan - Roseland Theater

BOSTON

Harry and the Potters - Hynes Convention Center

MONTREAL

Crystal Castles, Guns n Bombs, Curses! - SAT

EDMONTON

Digitalism, Shout Out Out Out - Starlite Room

LONDON

2ManyDjs, Simian Mobile Disco, Mylo - Turnmills
Super Furry Animals, Deerhoof - Royal Festival Hall
Tunng, Kevin Rowland of Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Horrors - 93 Ft East

GLASGOW

Dan Deacon - Optimo
Bis, Errors - ABC

Cloverfield

J.J. Abrams-creator and producer of my favorite show Lost, is coming out with a much-anticipated film in January called Cloverfield. The producers of the movie have kept most of the details of the story hidden, from the time they named the project "slusho" or "cheese" or-most recently- "Untitled J.J. Abrams Project".

Well, the trailer is out (click here for Official Website) and looks quite intense. The basic plot revolves around an unknown yet extremely powerful monster terrorizing NYC, and the small group of people experiencing and documenting it.

While this may sound like just another apocalyptic monster flick, Abrams work to date has lead me to believe that there is much more to this film. Will we see the monster? I doubt it. After all, one of the main themes and ideas on Lost is the constant questioning of who or what the "monster" is. What are good and evil and when, if ever, are we able to tell their true form before its too late?

Anyway...enjoy the trailer and please share your thoughts and theories. If I hadn't spent the last hour reading and researching the various economic theories on the Lost Island, perhaps I could start an entire Cloverfield wiki.

Secret Guest for Hard NYE revealed

Friend of a friend of a promoter let me know a little something interesting about the Hard NYE event in LA this New Year's...


As you might already know

Justice

Peaches

2 Live Crew

Steve Aoki

are all going to be there. 3 stages spanning 3 blocks in downtown LA. 5000 capacity.

All's well, however the secret guest will be...



Mm Ii Aa, MIA, Mm Ii Aa


What can I get for 10 dollah?




Here's some more info:
Downtown Los Angeles - DECEMBER 31st, 2007
8PM - 4AM
3 Stages * VIP Warehouse * 35 bands and DJs

VIP tickets ($175):
Includes VIP valet parking, separate no wait entrance into event, entrance into separate vip only warehouse, and new years party favors. Plus open bar all night long with premium spirits Grey Goose , Patron, Premium Champagne and more.
Buy VIP tickets here right now

Attractions:
Cirque Aerial Acrobats Wish and J'Dagon
The Engine
We will be screening Daft Punk's film Electroma in the chill out area.
Visual Stimuli by MC This!
Photobooth Cobrasnake / Ronys and much much MORE TBA
come rain or shine / line up subject to change


URL: http://www.HARDNYE.com


Location:
Premiere Events Center with extended street closures
LOT 613 (see the map at HARDNYE.com)
613 Imperial Street
Los Angeles , CA 90021
Buy General Admission tickets here right now

My Space is a Small World

Adam Gimble, local music hero, trivia master and new host of "Too Cool for Karaoke" stumbled upon a strange little message on my flier for the Golden Years Party.

"Fluff" aka Susan Olsen aka "Cindy" from The Brady Bunch commented "Prunetinis?", suggesting not only a wonderful addition to the old people theme, but also reminding us that nearly EVERYONE is on the space these days.

I loved the Brady Bunch and especially liked her character because I was the youngest of three girls as well. I didn't snitch nearly as much, but did have the whole blonde braids thing going on.



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A Special Thanks

Love and mroe love goes out to Tim Pyles for handing down some sweet tickets to me and the girls at the Casbah on Sunday night.

Heather and I got to see the very last show of Travis' tour tonight at the House of Doosh. The crutches helped, as we were able to snag balcony front row seats for a nice evening of quiet Pretty Rock. The band was on fire, very smiley and lively. Their encore consisted of 6 songs, once sung completely acoustic (and the audience was actually silent for it). Overall a great night, and a free one at that.

Tomorrow, we've got tickets for Iron and Wine, another band I love but have not seen live.

Timy Pyles is by far the nicest, most generous, helpful, kind, loving, cool, funny, awesome guy to be in San Diego right now. If you see him out, be sure to say hi, as he's always up for meeting new people and having a chat, or much needed cigarette.

The Golden Years

finally made a flier of my own...You'll be hearing about this all week, so no complaining!



PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dress up! It will be so funny to be partying with old people. Just wear some old, high-water pants, suspenders, wigs, old lady jewelry, stratchy pants, bad colors, bad sweaters, bad anything! Prok pie hats! Canes! Walkers! All are welcome.

Thankful for...DANCING

If there is one thing I miss the most in these weeks with my broken foot, its dancing. Before the stupid accident, I was taking 3-5 dance classes a week and going out at least that much at night. Sitting on a stool at the Casbah just isn't the same as dancing in the front next to the stage. This has only led me to watch some old music videos of some of my favorite dancers.

The Temptations. They started modern dance, they started classy group choreography. Hands down unstoppable.


Shakira
What I love about Latin sexuality is that its apparent and obvious but not overdone. Its sexy for sexy's sake. Watch Shakira, her hips are leading her movements like most women would use their eyes or breasts. They way she looks at her own ass when she's moving is like "damn, even I'm impressed with you"


Aliyah, may she rest in peace.
Aliyah knew had to walk the line between innocence and sexuality, between obvious femininity and subtle boyish charm. She was classy, mature and always entertaining. I was in high school when this song came out, and who doesn't remember trying to learn the "sleep, sleep sleep" dance moves?


Usher
The black Fred Astaire. He's equal parts hood and Broadway. His giant ego shines through in his movements, but luckily he lives up to it. I like it his way.

From Crackle: Usher - My Way

Janet Jackson
Before Beyonce, before Britney, before Shakira and all those bootches...there was Janet.


nicholas brothers-their lines, techniques and precision, no tricks, just them

House Party News

Each weekend, a handful of friends and I casually bemoan the loss of the Ivy St. House Parties. Sure, we pulled together a decent Halloween bash, but it was nothing of the likes of the Great Rivals, Summer Circus or Office Parties of yore.

That's about to change. On December 1st, were having a Retirement Party for our friends, The Muslims. Against the advice of most people here, they've decided to move up to the stinkhole of the north, LA.

But we've supported them the whole time they've played around town and we want a giant bash to send them away. Vision of a Dying World will be ushering them in.

There is no official flier yet, but BT from TPB made this one for fun




Since its a retirement party, that means its time for costumes yet again. These should be easy. Go get some old people clothes at Amvets, wear big glasses and walk slowly--which should not be hard for me. Finally, my ghetto scooter will be appropriate.

DECEMBER 1st

Here are some costume ideas, thanks to my wacky cousin Liz from the LBC:




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THIS JUST IN: Shows in the New Year (and possibly ON New Year's Eve) to include...

Underground Railraod to Candyland
Vena Cava

And many more...feel free to leave suggestions of bands you like to see in the comments section

I am hunnng-ohhver

Vodka+High Life+Champagne+Red Wine+Malibu Rum=

We were welcoming in our new roommate Lily last night and things got a big out of hand. I played my guitar so hard, I now have bloody fingers, eventually started drumming with wooden spoons and talking gibberish. Lily was falling all around the kitchen by about 5am when we decided it might be best to stop scouring the kitchen for anything with alcohol in it.

While I sleep this off, here are some interesting links to entertain you

Funny Holiday gifts at Perpetual Kid

Cool things for your house at This Next

Black Friday Updates for all stores


CONSUME AWAY!

Zeebras on a Thursday Night

Thursday night, we were lucky enough to get into the Casbah for free, which is nice for a penniless young lady. Matt, my favorite bartender from LiveWire and Bartender's Bible member took a night off from making me Long Island Ice Tea's and played a great show with Mr. Tube, MEX and a gaggle of others.

Perhaps the best part of the night, other than the music, was the percentage of men in flannel to, well, other people. Casbah is wonderful for so many reasons. Cheap-ish drinks, great bartenders, Tim's usually walking around (especially tonight, considering it was his birthday), Ben, when he's at the front door, it always a great mini conversation when you're waiitng for your friends. You can hear the music and smoke a cigarette, if you find a great stop right outside the door. When inside, you can still get close enough to the stage, be close to the bar and be next to friends the whole night. For me, Im less than mile away.

yay! Casbah. I love you

here are some random pics from the night. I think I met about 5 Matt's that night, one that just moved here from San Francisco, one that lives in OB, and another I keep meeting just forgetting. Yay Matts. Rosey, sddialedin was there with her slick new haircut...good to see you guys all out.

2 Seconds with 16 year olds

One of the perks of being on the internet for 18 hours a day, is that you find a lot of cool shit. Mostly useless youtube videos, but occassionally a promising new band.

I found these girls, err, somewhere. They're called 2 Seconds, they're from San Francisco and have got the 2 people, one guitar, one drumset Whit Stripes thing going on. Oh, and they're 16.

I'm trying to get them down here to play soon, but not sure if they even have their driver's licences.

The story behind "Steadfast Kickdrum" is that a venue owner, somewhere, told the girls "if you can't dance to it, then you cant fuck to it. If you can, that's Rock and Roll. And no one is going to drive anywhere without that."

Sounds dacnce and fuckerific to me...

Around Town

There are usually some pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good things happening on Thursdays, and this week is no exception.
Here are my choices for a wonderful night out.

-Big Lebowski on the big screen at the Museum of Photographic Arts. Every Thursday the museum puts on a film, but this week just happens to be the best film of all time. 6-9 PM, Balboa Park, $6

-Enjoy the magical sounds of Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects, Bartenders Bible and guests @ Casbah, $10

-Mario, Charles and the other Skullz spin "Mr. Postman" and other 60's soul (plus rap towards the end of the drunken night) at Livewire. The drinks are strong and you can sit in a booth and watch people try to hook up. Perfect for a cripple.

ENJOY!

Princess Bride-20 Years Later

Doesn't that make you feel old?

This is probably the only movie, next to Dumb and Dumber, that everyone I know either owns or has owned.

If you're a super fan of Rodents of Unusual Size, you might want to pick up the special 20th anniversary edition of this classic and quirky tale of twouu wuvvv.

Check out the beautiful amigram on the cover...



Also,watch as some of the characters reminisce about Rob Reiner's lovely fairy tale.

Shit you probably already know...

but might like to read about:

-Winona Rider set to play Spock's Mom in J.J. Abrams' (creator of LOST) new star Trek Prequel.
Scripted by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the film revolves around the Starfleet Academy days of the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Chris Pine has been set to play Capt. Kirk, Simon Pegg will play Scotty, Karl Urban is Dr. McCoy and Eric Bana will play the villain, Nero. Banna was awesome in Munich.

-My Bloody Valentine reunite!!!
"Shields stated the album (their first since their break up in '95), will be divided in three sections. Besides the new material, the album will consist of songs from '96/'97 (work done between Shields and fellow Valentine, Bilinda Butcher) and a couple of previously unreleased tracks from '93/'94.

As for those rampant Coachella rumors, there has been no comment by Shields or anyone connected to the My Bloody Valentine camp."

-62% of people paid $0 for Radiohead's In Rainbows album. The other 38% of us paid an average of around $8, but fans in America paid the most.

-ABC fires more than 100 people from The Office and next week will be the last episode. Im so sad about this.

unemployedloldogz

Radiohead TV

So, telling you I write about Radiohead a lot is getting more annoying than the actual posts. And with that I'll let you enjoy these fine video clips the boys made in the last week.

I hope it gets you excited for their upcoming 2008 tour.



Smith's Cover


My favorite-Faust Arp


Also, here's the setlist the band played in the studio while hanging out:
Burial - Near Dark
MIA - Pull Up the People
Tomas Anderson - Happy Happy
!!! - Heart of Hearts
Kings of Leon - My Party
AFD- Model Apprentice
Jorge Ben - Take It Easy My Brother Charlie
Les Baxter - The Ancient Galleon
Kenny Rogers - Just Dropped In
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbin'
Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car
Bauhaus - Bella Lugosi's Dead
Iron and Wine - Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
Bonnie Prince Billy - Lessons from What's Poor
Asian Dub Foundation - Naxalite
Ray Charles - It should've Been Me
Juana Molina - Micael
Fela Kuti & the Africa 70 - Alu Jon Jonki Jon

visit greenplastic.com for more on the best band in the world.

Laid Off and Laid Up

They say bad news always comes in 3's. I hate them. According to them, I'm still waiting for the 3rd catastrophe in my life. In the last 2 weeks, I badly broke my foot (at Scolari's Trivia Night, of all places) and was laid off from my job on Friday. Fuck.

In thinking about the limited jobs I might apply for, considering all I can do it sit on my ass and be on the internet, I thought that I might get back to this blog for a while. In the past, I've only posted sporadically and without much vision or idea of where the content was going. Don't worry, all the Radiohead news you could possibly read will still pervade the pages, but I'm thinking of some new things to add. Hopefully, dear faithful (7) readers, you will find something on here that makes your shit job just a bit less shitty.

Here are some weekly or daily columns that I plan on incorporating:

--Movie Reviews
--Music and live show reviews and previews
--Netflicks picks
--Things to do instead of drinking
--Invading the church of Scientology (this might take a while, but Im doing it)
--Upcoming show calendar
--San Diego House Parties News
--Odd News stories
--This week in 1982
--how to get into movies/show/events for free
--Daily Pictures of Mia and Iggy

Write me on here if there is something that you've liked from the past or would like to see again.

Family Pumpkin Bread Recipe

My mom and grandma have been making this for as long as I can remember. Its the best Pumpkin Bread I've ever had, and disappears quickly around family/roommates/humans/dogs. The recipe makes 2 large loaves in loaf pans. Loaf.

1 cup oil (preferably veggie oil, but not olive)
3 cups sugar
4 large eggs

MIX THESE TOGETHER IN MEDIUM BOWL

3 1/3 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Nutmeg
1 tsp. Ginger
1/2 tsp. salt (optional)

16 OZ. Pumpkin-2 cups (read below for when to add)

MIX THESE TOGETHER IN LARGE BOWL

1. Pour the egg/sugar mixture slowly into the flour mixture. Make sure you mixed the flour bowl pretty well before dumping the wet ingredients in there.
2. After that mixture is set, add the Pumpkin in slowly.

Pour into 2 loaf pans or cupcake pan
Cook at 350 for 1 hour.



Enjoy!