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BOO! WE DRESSED UP AS A BLOG THAT NEVER POSTS! SCARED?!
Oct 31st
OH HAI! We’ve been dicking around when we should be writing. And by ‘dicking around’ we mean ‘our day jobs’ and ‘watching heroes.’ But real quick, this being Halloween, a holiday whose median-celebration age seems to have been on the uptick as of late, there are several pretty whips ways to spend your evening. Let’s take a gander:
FATAL FLYING GUILLOTEENS RELEASE SHOW
Yes. This is the official release of the CD that so tickled our fancy the other week. Rumor has it that, to honor the spirit of the great pumpkin, the Guillo-men might re-visit their previous predilection for dress up, perhaps as the cast of a certain television program. Ultra secret, little buddy – so keep that on the down low. Other acts that have been mentioned as being on this bill are American Sharks, MV+EE and 47 Miles of Barbwire. ATTN: People Under 21 – you MUST MySpace message the Guilloteens before the show in order to get on a list to get in. Only the first 20 under-agers will be admitted. Don’t blow it. The Proletariat. $7
HELMET, SHARKS & SAILORS
S&S are going to smoke the other bands on the bill – real talk. Helmet is down to a single original member, which is kind of hilarious as we would never have pegged them as a nostalgia act, but we guess if anyone from AmRep was going to go that act, it would be them. Don’t act like you don’t want to go see a bunch of people all in costume freaking out to Meantime and Sinatra. Two bands are sandwiched between the honey oat to give you time to leave and go trick-or-treating in Chinatown. ALSO – The Free Press has some free tickets to this show to give away. TRICK OR TREAT! To get a pair email Ramon Medina: hellokitty at gmail dot com.
NOTHIN BUT A MONSTER PARTY
HEY – THESE GUYS HAVE FLYER. WAREHOUSE PARTIES! YOU(GENIOUS)! INTO IT!
BOYS AND GIRLS’ CLUB’S GHOULISH RETURN
EDDIE! TICKET GIVEAWAYS TO SEE IAMX. YOUNG PEOPLE! 
No doubt there will be costumed fun and freaks wherever you go, and drunks on the road – so drive safe. Killer.
HOUSE PARTY ALERT: BASSES LOADED TO SPOOK IT UP AT CROCKER HOUSE
Oct 26th
Be sure you check the weather on this one, cause like, it’s gonna be a perfect fall evening. ATTN: FALL – thank you for being 2003 every single year. We’re told that Basses Loaded will be going on at 9:30.
TONIGHT: BE SURE SOMEONE IS THERE TO HOLD YOUR HAIR
Oct 26th
You know the Interpol song “Length of Love” how right from the beginning the guitars are doing that little two-string pluck riff? Man, that always makes our stomach a little sick. It’s not like a brown note experience or anything bowel rumbling. And nay, the feeling one has drank too much. It just gives us somewhat of a discomforted stomach – a tummy ache, if you will, in the classical childhood sense. We’ve never really shared that before. We tell because we love. Because there is trust between us – and because you are beautiful and we cannot resist beauty.
Which is why we’re completely ace in the hole to share with you something else of the pepto-requiring variety. Tonight at The White Swan – it’s Sickish Fest. Armed with little more of an explanation than “Get Sick”, a full evening of entertainment has been culled from the best of last weekend’s live options (Friday’s set by Cop Warmth and Indian Jewelry; Saturday’s matinee by The Wiggins and Hearts of Animals – though tonight you’ll substitute one of Mlee Marie’s other bands, Vaarg, for the HOA). Rounding out the bill in the fabled Eastside mecca of smoke machines and American Flags are A Pink Cloud, Balaclavas and Satannabis, who we were disappointed to learn has absolutely nothing to do with Santana.
But in spite not knowing exactly what is so Sick about this whole thing (beyond a SoCal surfer slang reference to the lineup), we’re pretty sure it marks the start of the Halloween party season, which continues on into the weekend and climaxes with you having to choose between two other damn sick shows (if we may say so) on Wednesday. Get your costumes ready people – you’ve got Pepto to drink.
BEAT THE STREET: GET LP4’S NEW ALBUM BEFORE RELEASE DATE+ BEER, PIZZA AND INSECT WARFARE
Oct 24th
Yes, we are quite aware that the Doobie Brothers are playing tonight, and that there has been a near-criminal lack of coverage of this event. BUT, that doesn’t mean that you don’t need to make a stop off before you point your sexton towards the show. Yep because, this afternoon, starting at five-ish, the good folks at Sound Exchange have a treat in store for you. No, they haven’t decided to discount the remainder of the McManus collection to club-a-baby-seal-crazy prices – rather they’ve used their considerable influence over all things local and 12” in girth to bring to you (but not us, cause we’re in Midland) the new Linus Pauling Quartet record, All Things Are Light, weeks before the official US street date. Yep, while sippin on suds and biting on pie, you’ll be the first in line to buy the new record, all the while (we are told) being nurtured by the soothing and more than moderately whip ass new Insect Warfare album. So, whether your evening begs the question of what a fool believes, or whether you want to hit up Matt Pond or Say Hi, atleast you know where to get it all started. Cha Ching!
VIDEO: SABRA LAVAL – COME CLOSE (LIVE ON KTRU)
Oct 23rd
Our friend and Mad Dog co-conspirator Sabra Laval played a few songs on KTRU last Friday, including this rendition of the song ‘Came Close’:
Her entire set is online in two parts here and here, and if you happen to be a fan, so is YouTube user bergduck, who has quite the back-catalog of her live and in-studio performances online. Sabra will be playing Thursday at Notsuoh with Austin Lucas and the Pressman and locals Black Black Gold.
