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2005:08:31:21:11. Wednesday. WHILE NEW ORLEANS SANK. Army Corps of Engineers money and resources diverted from Lake Pontchartrain levees to Iraq. A vacation three days too long.
posted by Aaron S. Veenstra 2005:08:23:14:47. Tuesday. BACK FROM VEGAS. We're back from Vegas -- I lost about $50 and left my jacket on the plane. Whoops! The first of three photo sets is up at Flickr.
posted by Aaron S. Veenstra 2005:08:14:18:38. Sunday. I CAN SEE YOU. Emily's brother's band played a show on Friday night, and we used our Cybershot DSC-P73, in low-quality video mode, to record it. It came out surprisingly well, and I highly recommend it to any aspiring bootleggers. Hopefully I'll find a way to make the audio available for download -- I'd link to the band's site so you could check out their record, etc., but, um, they don't have one.
2005:08:07:22:11. Sunday. THE HIPSTERS ARE BREEDING. My distaste for children is well known, but this is still pretty cool.
posted by Aaron S. Veenstra 2005:08:04:14:14. Thursday. MYSPACE AND THE SCENE. I saw Karmella's Game in what looked like a converted basement rec room in the very early hours of Wednesday morning. Their set was great, despite the crap venue. Their singer is probably less than five feet tall, but even without an actual stage to perform on, she put on a high-energy show and got the whole crowd going. I wish I'd been able to get some video, but there were too many conspicuous hipsters in front of me, and not enough light to get anything worthwhile. I highly recommend this band to fans of indie girls with big synth stacks, but that's not really the point of this post. Before things got started, the frontwoman of the second band on the bill (Hello, Trauma, whose very first show it was) came up to me and asked if I was on their myspace page. I was not, but I told her I'd just seen this coincidental shirt. Turns out I look like someone on their myspace page. In between the first two sets I got to talking to one of the guys from a band called Dormlife, of Chicago, as well as a couple guys from a not-really-doing-anything Madison band, and one of those guys' girlfriend. Madison band guy, 23, was impressed with the success of Dormlife guy, 22. "How do you make a living on tour?" inquired Madison band guy. "You don't," sez Dormlife guy, tellin' it like it is. "How do you even set up a tour?" Madison band guy wonders, undeterred. "Are you on myspace?" Long story short, Dormlife and Karmella's Game became tourmates, briefly, after becoming myspace friends. Karmella's Game was in Madison -- their first Wisconsin show -- because Hello, Trauma's Mikelanne had hooked shit up via myspace. It appears that, in the span of about two years, myspace has come to own The Scene. As of very recently, News Corp. (aka Rupert Murdoch, aka Fox, aka The Evil That Men Do) owns myspace. posted by Aaron S. Veenstra |
