At the National & St. Vincent show in LA last night at the Wiltern:

NewsRadio reunion with Maura Tierney and Dave Foley

 One of our favorite characters in Flight Of The Conchords, Kristen Schall aka "Mel"

And the hobbit/lost guy Dominic Monoghan

And let’s just say that a certain staff member, aka, ME> was VERY sad to hear of a certain no-show.

This was a posting found on craigslist. It could possibly be the most awesome thing I’ve ever read and has fully restored my faith in humanity. It would be wrong of me not to blog_this_shit….

What am I doing wrong? Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York. I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m overreaching at all. Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around 200 – 250.

But that’s where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won’t get me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she’s not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I get to her level? Here are my questions specifically:

- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars, restaurants, gyms -What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won’t hurt my feelings

-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I’m 25)?

- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east side so plain? I’ve seen really ‘plain jane’ boring types who have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I’ve seen drop dead gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What’s the story there?

- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows – lawyer, investment banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out? – How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY Please hold your insults

- I’m putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I’m being up front about it. I wouldn’t be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn’t able to match them – in looks, culture, and keeping a nice home and hearth.

 

   What I bet she looks like

So you’ve downloaded the MP3 from GorillavsBear, you’ve sent youtube links of the "Evergreen" video to you’re buddy on the West Coast, yesterday cruising the Fader Blog you stumbled on the Simian Mobile Disco disco-rrific remix of "Hands Off My Gold"…well my friends, it’s time to STEP AWAY THE COMPUTER, SPEND SOME TIME WITH ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS AND COME SEE THE BAND PLAY LIVE (well sort of)

Celebration are playing a bodega on the south-side of Williamsburg, Brooklyn  but don’t worry that there will be an awkward social situation with Katrina singing to you or anything like that because you have to watch this show "live by video proxy" — that means from the room next to the band on a giant video monitor.  Confused?  We are too, but we hear it’s pretty rad.

Plus one of our favorite bands Blues Control is playing too.

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The ADOLESCENT SESSIONS continues this Thursday, 10/4 with Celebration & Blues Control.

The Adolescent Sessions is a bi-monthly event featuring 2 bands, 2 rooms, CCTV, projectors, and a lot of wiring. Presented by Billy J and Viva Radio, the new series combines live broadcast recording sessions with a voyeuristic A/V experience. Part show, part real-time documentary, part Schrodinger’s Cat (huh?), The Adolescent Sessions is a sensory anomaly in which the audience witnesses the bands’ performance in progress via surveillance video feed streaming from an adjacent room.

Audio and video recordings are later aired on Viva Radio (www.viva-radio.com).

Thursday, October 4th features Celebration and Blues Control.

Every 1st and 3rd Thursday. $5.
@ Uniondocs Bodega. Doors 7 PM.
322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
RSVP: electricadolescent@gmail.com

This sounds like the start of a weird joke, but it’s not. A clip of Bijou Phillips giving an inpromptu performance of a Blonde Redhead song has been making the rounds. It’s from the Tom Green Show…Tom Green appears clueless.  Who knew the guy even had a show anymore!!!..oh I see, it’s an internet show.  I’ll give him a break because he’s Canadian, but didn’t Drew give him some lessons in indie rock?

Hey All,

This is an open call for those interested in joining the illustrious Beggars Group USA street team.
Help us spread the good word in your cities, towns and campuses across the states.

For further details, drop an email to ClaireTaylor (at) Beggars.com.

We expect that everywhere from Splash-NYC to Here Lounge-LA will be dropping this little remix on fools for many months to come.

Enjoy it club people and Celebration fans alike.

Download:  "Hands Off My Gold" – SMD Remix (MP3 – 320kbps)

Last night, THE NATIONAL performed Apartment Story on the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. They were AMAZING, but I think one of the highlights of the day was getting to hang out with Dave Foley…..of Kids in the Hall and News Radio fame! See the attached photo!

Here’s a YOU TUBE LINK of the performance.

People around the office know that I’m on a massive anti-marketing kick.   It’s not that I don’t like marketing.  I mean I actually watch that Feist / iPod Nano commercial on my DVR every time.  But, think about the good people.  Good people who might not care about all the stuffery of marketing.  And sometimes that marketing shit (our shit included) is confusing and hurts the good people.   So, it’s with much zeal that I dove into all those leaked Media Defender emails last week – a company many labels use to track online music piracy.

Besides the terabytes of irony that is Media Defender’s entire email server being leaked on to the Internet, after reading a bunch of them I hardly gave it more than a "wow, that’s a bummer for someone."   Sure, the CEO "prefers" beastiality to say, cream corn play, and some emails grossly pervert the whole process of copyright protection into some Dilbertian marketing intel thinger, but…again…whatever.

But, my indifference wore thin because a tipster sent an email with this little excerpt:

Blonde Redhead album comes out in a few weeks. this is an indie band…no presence outside of online geeks like me. interesting to see what kind of traction they might be getting. 

- (ed:  a dude we know)

Further down:

Could u have these artists entered into our marketing intel system? Thanks.

- R

We’re obviously flattered that someone who knows more about marketing than we do is tracking our bands on P2P to "create some intel" for the W.O.M. on the next Modest Mouse record.  But I do feel compelled to comment on this.   (keep in mind…I care more that the dudes in the email exchange above prefer Fat Burger to the vastly superior In-And-Out).

So…Blonde Redhead.   Indie?  Probably, if I knew what that meant.  No presence?  More likely, but fuck if we didn’t try on ‘23‘.  And geeks…?  Absolutely, and let’s just hope we, the good people, all stay that way.

Film School are playing an free in-store performance at Amoeba Music in Berkeley.  The action takes place Saturday, October 13th at 2pm.  You can also check them out later that night at Bottom of the Hill

Film School at Amoeba Music

Saturday, 10/13 at 2pm

2455 Telegraph Ave

Berkeley, CA  94704

Have you met Colette? She belongs to Kazu Makino, of Blonde Redhead. And while she’s also the only dog I know that goes on tour, she most indeed is the cutest dog in indie rock…just don’t try to pet her!