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SAN FRANCISCO, CA
April 1
8pm
The Clay Theatre
2261 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/SanFrancisco/ClayTheatre.htm
Tickets available at the Door
found out about it on the muse official messageboards.
http://board.muse.mu/showthread.php?t=52633
=D
two-guitar acoustic time is running out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x23nA1WQcao
one of the better covers out there. added to the long, long list of videos to study
haloid: http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=57998
the level to which i was amused by this was unexpected
in tribute genre-crossing covers everywhere, jonathan coulton covers alanis: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2007/04/19/you-oughta-know/
it's so... BEAUTIFUL
and if you've never heard of jonathan coulton, here is how i heard of him: code monkey ... and a link to spiffworld
and his already famous previous genre-crossing cover, baby got back
Article here at the new york times on Beijing city officials trying to clean up the city in preparation for the Olympics. There's a brigade to fix signage like:
And there are ceremonies that only make sense to the Chinese, such as:
Last week, the city commemorated “Queuing Day,” an event held on the 11th of every month because the date symbolizes an orderly line. Volunteers wearing satin Queuing Day sashes shooed rush-hour commuters into lines at busy subway stations, while hospital administrators and a few city officials handed out long-stemmed roses to patients who stood in line to pay their bills or pick up medicines. Local news media swarmed the event.
“This is to encourage people,” said Zhang Xin, 30, an expectant mother, clutching her flower as she left Beijing Hospital after her pregnancy checkup.
Chen Chunfang, one of the hospital administrators, summed up the purpose succinctly. “The Olympics are coming, and everyone wants to show their best,” she said.
I LOVE that. 11th day because 11 looks like an orderly line. Captures in one idea all kinds of things that are sort of related to puns, language, the written word and how it affects ideas, the sense of humor/seriousness that people use with official things, propoganda, the mixture of national pride and national shame that are swirling around what you could call Chinese culture, or whatever.
I don't know where to start.
I'm an extrovert, a word which here means "one who only finds validation through other people who can understand her emotions," so I've exploded all over forums and communities about the concert, but not in my own livejournal yet.
You can play "Where's Judy?" with this picture from club six, though it is not alliteratively satisfying: http://live105.com/pages/347009.php?imageGalleryXRefId=135297
I'll edit this post later with an indepth account. For now I just want to say, people went crazy over the video of the little jam Matt did on the kaoss pad. I got all upset because my video editing software messed up the cut and it ends early, so I uploaded a full version, but after the cut-off version already was linked everywhere and had 9 youtube honors. hahahahahaha
My videos:
soldier's poem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bid3o9IpI38
invincible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUFsSgVGGq8
kaoss jam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_U4heFGlCM
stockholm syndrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCz5h3MzPjg
city of delusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fM9GCWRYKM
plug in baby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWDRqHTKA0Y
knights of cydonia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x32lp98Dgg (I fought with myself. I wanted a video that was semi-watchable, but ... i had to jump. I HAD TO. I advise you close your eyes when the riff kicks in. hahaha.)
Anyway, other people got better videos than I did... better sound quality, less shaky, and you can actually see Matt jumping around like a demented pixie with his ridiculous scarf flouncing about, it's fucking fantastic
hysteria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsAKwAkrZ4
map of the problematique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJB-TuutsyU <--HE SKIPS DURING THE END RIFF HAHAHAHAHHH
take a bow AND hysteria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtCFAoB4OUI (good shots of the crowd, too!)
supermassive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EnI0DVaT68 <---kill me now, just kill me
The concert was amazing.
more here, and pics with immigrant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/judytuna/sets/72157600061484134/
i forgot to unplug my camera from my computer last night after i uploaded the pictures, so my battery is empty. crap! and i was going to leave like... a few hours ago...
part 1. djing and lack of talent for; immigrant; mcr and muse's effect on its fans, insane matt laugh; middle america; how to pronounce problemaTEEK: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mQ78Fhgq8YM
part 2. on map of; on songs to dance to; on being a band for 12 years and growing up; whether they get sick of each other and poker, recommends to keep it light; talking about what to play next and dom's ipod; the forum in LA is 20k people and they're nervous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivsybT5I6w
part 3. they hang out in the cities they go to, in sf they go to the beauty bar because someone who i assume is affiliated with the radio station bartends there... and people's flats? with girls with long nails? wtf? hahahaha; matt refuses to answer if he's engaged; what they do on tour, keeping focus, dom talks about responsibility; other countries and losing your mind; korean bbq; penne pasta and sushi; nine inch nails' new stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJmZSI1-Tk
I got home from club 6ix at about 3am. Immigrant played a set of about 5 songs. After a long break, Dom got on stage with equipped with a black ipod nano, Tom, and a big smile, and proceeded to play some songs for us. The front speakers cut out for a while, and Dom made frantic "?" gestures, and mimed spinning, and teased us by tapping Immigrant's drumkit for a few moments (you could see him look at it and get drawn to it like a magnet during the downtime, it was so cute)... and when the sound came back up and he started playing a song he'd look at us and wave his arms about to get a reaction. At one point I was the only one around dancing and he looked straight at me and bopped his head and smiled. He's really expressive. And really adorable. As far as I could tell, he wasn't actually spinning anything... only playing songs off of his ipod, I think. I didn't know any of the songs, either.
The crowd had thinned out considerably by the time he got on stage, and thinned out even more while they worked out the technical problems. Basically there were like 20 of us crowded around obnoxiously taking flash photos of him instead of dancing, which is kind of sad. Here they are laughing at us:
He hung out on the floor for a little while afterwards. I didn't go up to him and say hi. I felt too shy all of a sudden =(
Oh, some of the people in the front row gave them small packages in cow-patterned paper. Bracelets?
More photos at my flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judytuna/sets/72157600058411188/
Tonight was my first time at Club 6ix, first time in San Francisco by myself at night, and first time taking the all-nighter transbay bus home to the east bay. Now that I know the bus is so easy to take, I'm gonna go clubbing all the time...! I barted there (the club is on sixth (which is between civic center and powell stations), between mission and market), and took the 800 back. The 800 was free with my class pass and took about 50 minutes. It started raining when I got to Berkeley, so I just gave up and took a taxi from the downtown berkeley bart station to my house for $6. I had never taken a taxi in America before tonight.
Concert tomorrow! Today, rather! IN A FEW HOURS!!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! HOW AM I EVER GOING TO GET ENOUGH SLEEP????
This is off of my college a cappella group's last CD, from 2005. I'm the girl soloist. We used to make people cry when we sang this song live.
*Spring Concert!*
This year the ASUC in conjunction with Superb is excited to announce Spring
Concert at the Greek Theatre. The concert is on Saturday April 14 and
includes performances from Yellowcard, Aesop Rock, and Mates of State.
Tickets
can be purchased at the Zellerbach box office (or at the Greek the day of)
for $5 with all proceeds benefiting the refugees of the genocide in Darfur.
I've never heard of the ASUC spring concert. Mates of State!
1. http://twittervision.com/ in the last minute, someone in budapest is getting ready to go to the cinema in an hour and someone in kansas is wondering what her mother is making for breakfast
2a. muppets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSjcjHsSCmM
2b. tauren http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A
3. hdm teaser footage, complete with green screens and wires: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58X4o_41Frc can't remember if i posted this already. if i did, it wasn't a youtube video but a download link. BEARS!!!!!
