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after an awesome and cheap dinner at wong wong, anthony & i checked out the velvet teen / minus the bear at the troc last friday. when’s the last time i was at the troc?!? the velvet teen blew me away, minus the bear was kind of boring. the velvet teen’s new album, cum laude! [...]

two movies that aren’t good in the strictest sense of the word but i wholeheartedly recommend them:
the protector - i’ve a huge tony jaa fan since the release of ong bak: muay thai warrior and this followup, while not a sequel, ups the ante like crazy. the story is completely ridiculous. jaa plays a boy [...]

monica and i made it out to the starlight ballroom a few weeks ago for the cursive show, it was quite excellent.
opening were the thermals. i liked them when they sounded like GBV, but i was bored by their live performance; their politics consists of exactly the type of heavy-handed rhetoric and sloganeering that i’d [...]

hollywood’s got my dollar this summer! here’s what i’ve been checking out, hopefully i can see a scanner darkly this week:
X3: the final stand - more like yechhhs men! even for a comic book movie, the screenplay was a total hack job. there were too many characters and too many storylines and subplots, leaving a [...]

monica and i drove through an unbelievably crazy storm to watch pinback at a sold-out north star bar a few weeks ago. it was totally worth almost getting blown off the ben franklin bridge. after dropping monica off at the door, parking a few blocks away and cautiously walking back (metroplex matt had gotten mugged [...]

monica, nolan, colleen and i finally got to see brick at the voorhees ritz the other night. since seeing the trailer in february, i’d been eagerly anticipating the local release of rian johnson’s ‘indie kids meet the maltese falcon’ debut for a few months now. it did not disappoint. don’t worry, i won’t give anything [...]

after a great dinner with monica at the venerable tortilla press, craig from engineer and i shot on over to the first unitarian to see victory at sea / aloha / the appleseed cast. unfortunately we got there just after aloha’s set. i was a little disappointed but that’s what happens when you staunchly refuse [...]

it was an unexpected yet ultimately very cool experience last night in of all places, sicklerville nj. monica and i had gone to see denison witmer begin his spring tour at a venue called rockwell’s. i know - it sounds like the name of a sports bar, but it turned out to be the youth [...]

- pat & i went to the m-room last night to see shekeepsbees open for pattern is movement. SKB is basically jessica larrabee, who you may remember from the english system. after one really great record (2002’s banded blue) and a couple of tours, TES broke up in 2003 and jess moved to brooklyn to [...]

last night’s the silence kit / i love you but i’ve chosen darkness show was a beautiful time. they fit really well together, playing that dark pop that kids go bananas over. TSK opened by channelling some early cure (’geometric’) and then added an unexpectedly upbeat number during their set, while ILYBICD at times recalled [...]