Line-up for There's a Stage on My Lawn! [16 May 2008|02:00am] krisispm Since many of you aren't familiar with many of the There's a Stage on My Lawn! artists, here's a convenient cheat-sheet in line-up order with a slew of links so you can watch and listen to their music before you attend. Buy $9 tickets online, or pay $12 at the door. Geoff Ednie - Former acapella staple plays a mix of crowd-pleasing covers and originals influenced by the Beatles, Alice in Chains, and Phish. Bevin Caulfield - Smokey-voiced darling of rooms like Tin Angel and The Fire. Lots of classic soul influences make her stand out in a crowd. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/bevincaulfieldmusic Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzvyeFQyyRQ Arcati Crisis - My band! Harmony-filled boy/girl acoustic pop from a pair of life-long best friends. Sounds like Rilo Kiley crossed with the Indigo Girls. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arcaticrisis Listen: http://www.sonicbids.com/arcaticrisis Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sLp1OC2v9U Old Man Cactus - A great band we shared the bill with at Tin Angel. Inspired by a great playlist of 70s singer-songwriters, they come off like an acoustic, bluesy version of Maroon 5. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/oldmancactus Watch solo: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dFuEI6bzs1I Brian Flannagan - A surprisingly gentle, folky sound from this former producer and drummer. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brianflanagan Lindsay Wilhelmi - LP's founder writes unshakably catchy original tunes, and plays covers from Jewel, the Recipe, and 4 Non Blondes. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lindsaywilhelmi Ben Guez - Golden-throated classical singer dissects songs from unlikely sources, like classic rock, or even the Pixies, and also slips in his own infectious originals. John Glaubitz - Original, solo modern-rock from an accomplished guitar player. A one-man Warped tour. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/johnglaubitz Listen: http://warpedtour.battleofthebands.com/TheVagrant Enter the Rooms - This band is hot. Incredible local alternative rockers can grab your attention acoustic or electric. A riffier Coldplay? Not sure, but they never disappoint. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/entertherooms Watch: http://youtube.com/watch?v=njITAFEd9lY Jesse Schurr - Tiny, local yoga instructor typically fronts an acoustic funk four-piece, but will play stripped down versions of her rhythmic tunes for us. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jesseschurrband Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AK_hzwkr4s Irene Molloy -Lilting, country-tinged folk-pop that would be right at home on XPN, from the star of TV sitcoms Grosse Point and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/irenemolloy Da 1 - Solo MC/songwriter describes his primarily influences as Jimi Hendrix and Jay-Z, and generally lives up the to hype. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/ohits1 Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnkCIK8ZrUk Just Like Me - Young band from Temple plays engaging, challenging rock music. Some hear a Radiohead/Tool influence, but others cite Pink Floyd. Either way, a great band, though their recordings don't do them justice. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jlmband Listen: http://sonicbids.com/justlikeme Dante Bucci - Hypnotic original compositions on the hang drum, a bell-like percussion instrument. You've never seen anything like it! Web: http://dantebucci.com Hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOxNsEJZln0 post comment

Crowded House Concert Review [15 May 2008|08:44pm] farwing So. Monday, May 5th, I went to a Crowded House concert. It was amazing. Stunning. I spent most of the evening in awe, falling more and more musically in love with Neil Finn. The Somerville Theatre is probably my favorite venue. I somehow forget this. But it's the perfect size. And we had pretty fantastic tickets - four rows back from the edge of the balcony. The thing is: I saw Crowded House last August. And they were good, but it was at Formerly Known as Harbor Lights (Bank North Pavilion) and...that venue sucks. Plus, they've been playing together longer now so...they will be more awesome. It's all fading away, as these things do. But, along with set list notes and what lyrics I could catch from new/obscure songs I wrote down "drinking in this music so amazing" which, while it lacks a certain...punctuation, is a pretty good snapshot of how I was feeling. My mouth was open, I was leaning forward. I just...this is totally the band for which I would drop everything and follow. Or at least go to as many east coast US shows as make any sense. (When they come back I am going to any New York shows too. I will do this.) ( Really long concert review ) And now I am going to bed. So much for getting stuff done tonight. post comment

Unshelved News: Welcome New Readers [16 May 2008|12:45am] unshelved_comic http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1054 We've added a lot of new readers lately, especially with signups from the three talks we did in the last month plus Emerald City Comic Con. Welcome! Primer here if you need it! Posted by Bill on 5/15/2008 4:57:00 PM post comment

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[15 May 2008|04:42pm] genarti ( My day in miscellany ) 6 comments|post comment

[15 May 2008|02:56pm] farwing [ mood | sleep deprived ] [ music | Crowded House etc. (until I get the new Thea Gilmore album, I guess?) ] You know what? My brains are made of something really...slow today. Like molasses in January. Mostly sluggish, but prone to occasional startling explosions. Um. Time for a nice iced latte, I guess? 5 comments|post comment

Mobile phones [15 May 2008|12:42pm] firynze [ mood | curious ] I think I'm going to finally get a new mobile phone. Y'see, I've been going over some phone bills. I have the base Verizon plan, $39.99/450min/lots of promotional minutes, and for the last several months, I've used all of, oh, maybe 60min per month. All free/promotional minutes. I don't even TOUCH my allocated 450min. And I don't text or picture message at all. So why the heck am I paying $46/mo to Verizon when I've got home phone service from Comcast and I really only use the mobile when I'm travelling? Kinda dumb, if you ask me. I've done some research and I think I'm going to switch to Tracfone - I can get a pretty darn good deal if I spring up front for the 800min/1 year/double minutes for life plan, and if I use fewer than 800min over the course of four months, I'll have more than broken even on the switch. I just have to pick what phone I want. Unfortunately, none of the ones I REALLY want are available in Vermont - oddly, there are certain handsets that use units/minutes differently than others, and they're only available in certain areas, despite the fact that all Tracfone phones work everywhere there's cell service. One of the phones I prefer, though, is available in the Albany region, so I might get that and just have a 518 area code rather than an 802. Not like it matters that much, y'know? I'm pretty certain I'm going to go with Tracfone, but I'm still up in the air on what model to choose. If you have a mobile phone, what model do you have? What do you like about it? What do you hate? I realise mobiles are a very personal piece of hardware - I, for instance, loathe flip phones, although I'm vaguely pondering this one - but I want to see what y'all think of what you're using. (for reference, the other phones I'm looking at are the Motorola W175g, the Motorola C139, and the Motorola C261. I'm most likely to go with the latter, as it has the best package deal even though it has lots of features I don't need/want. I'd love to have the Motorola C155, but I can't get it around here, hmph) 31 comments|post comment

There's an Arcati Crisis on My Lawn! [14 May 2008|07:03pm] krisispm Lyndzapalooza has been posting interviews with our artists all week on the LP MySpace page. Today's is an epic-length Q&A with Arcati Crisis. -- If you are free on Saturday between 2 p.m. and 11 p.m. I hope you'll be at There's a Stage on My Lawn! in Yardley, PA, presented by Lyndzapalooza. And, if you can't come I encourage you to to pass the word along to another music lover in your life. I know you've already been hit (bombarded, even) with invites and bulletins about the event, but I want to give you my personal pitch for this year's festival, because it's something truly unique. There’s a Stage on My Lawn features fourteen amazing, independent, local artists. They’ve all been busting their asses for the past year to rock better and harder than ever before ... evolving from coffee shops to open mics to underbills to featured shows. Enter the Rooms, Bevin Caulfield, Just Like Me, Irene Molloy, Jesse Schurr – if you listen to XPN or frequent venues like The Khyber, The Grape Street, The Tin Angel, and Milkboy Coffee chances are that you’ve heard their names or their music before. Each of those five acts – as well as the other nine - are on the verge of becoming something way more awesome than they are today, and we've collected them all onto a single lawn. I’m honestly a fan of all fourteen of our artists, and I’m still not sure how we got so lucky as to gather them all in one place, but I promise you that the opportunity to see them all together is fleeting. And, it’s certainly not going to happen again for just $12. Also, there's Lyndzapalooza itself. Did you know that we're a lot more than a once-a-year party? We threw a Winter Mixer at the Shubin Theatre, where we later volunteered to renovate. We invaded or hosted several open mics this spring. We're raising money so that we can incorporate as a non-profit. Next year we hope to have our festival on a farm. I am as proud as I can possibly be to be an organizer of and an artist in this amazing event. It's going to be good, and it's going to be fun, and I wish every local music fan could be a part of it. I hope that I'll see you and/or some of your most rocking friends on the lawn. Head to TicketLeap for more info & pre-sale or reserved tickets. 2 comments|post comment

Conversation of the day [14 May 2008|04:59pm] firynze [ mood | silly ] "Woah, firynze, you have legs!" "Buh?" "Normally when you wear a skirt, you have boots on! You have LEGS!" "What can I say, I like shocking the Victorians from time to time. I have ankles!" *does a little kick-step* 5 comments|post comment

Store: FAQ preorder reminder [14 May 2008|06:56pm] unshelved_comic http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1053 Just 17 days left in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) preorder. Order by May 31 and we'll sign your book and I'll sketch Colleen (or the character of your choice) in it. In addition, we'll both sign any books you order with your copy of FAQ. Order our full set of six (or any six of our books) for just $70 (free shipping in the US and Canada). Plus we have our new t-shirts. Five years ago we printed our first book. It was a scary thing to do, but our readers were kind enough to preorder enough copies to pay for the entire print run. Now costs have gone up so much that we need to sell almost twice as many books as we did back then just to break even. And of course now I'm trying to make a living at this, so it's even scarier than it was back then. So if after all this time a new collection of Unshelved still sounds like fun to you, I'd like to humbly suggest that this is a great time to avail yourself of one. Posted by Bill on 5/14/2008 11:43:00 AM post comment

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Engine update! [13 May 2008|07:26pm] firynze [ mood | pleased ] WOOHOO! Changed my brake cable, installed my rearviews, and the Weedwhacker is now entirely street-legal! Took 'er for a spin around and got cranked up to about 30mph quite nicely, though she prefers to cruise at about 24mph. Good for around town, if nothing else. LITTLE scary being that fast, that low to the ground, but I'll get used to it, I'm sure. *grin* Trick now is figuring out why the fuck the electric ignition stopped working. Grrrr. post comment

Eeee! [13 May 2008|12:30pm] firynze [ mood | excited ] DOOD. The Fiery Furnaces are playing at Bennington College on Saturday! There's a whole roster of neat-sounding bands, along with games and vendors and entertainment and food, all as part of some annual campus music festival. $15 for a full day of food and fun and Fiery Furnaces. I am so there. post comment

[13 May 2008|11:55am] farwing Dear wise asses of the world, As a wise ass myself, I am sympathetic to your plight. There's a joke in everything! However, when I ask you "Where are you calling from?" please, for the love of little monkeys do not say "the Cape" or "my car." Yeah, I should probably ask "What company are you with?" but that's not what usually happens. not amused, farwing (Wow. I sound a little more cranky than usual. Um. Lunch? That might be a good move.) 5 comments|post comment

Happy birthday! [13 May 2008|11:24am] firynze [ mood | cheerful ] Happy birthday, rolypolypony! Have a goat! Anna couple ponies! 2 comments|post comment

Because you all need to see this video. [13 May 2008|09:13am] farwing [ mood | filled with glee ] You guys...there are some really awesome youtube clips from the May 6th Crowded House concert at Somerville Theatre and none at all from the May 5th concert, the one I went to. This makes me a little sad? But! There is a video of Nick cutting Neil's hair on stage while Neil sings "Hair" and also "Devil's Haircut" (which is doubly awesome because Matt Sherrod was Beck's drummer). And then Nick dances. Hahahahahaha. The folks who were at whichever Toronto show this was are so fucking lucky. post comment

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stimulating the graphic design industry [12 May 2008|10:15pm] acsumama We got a notice in the mail about our economic stimulus check. It had a logo on it. The IRS paid someone to come up with a snazzy logo, instead of giving us each an extra $.01. 5 comments|post comment

Unshelved News: Did you register for BEA through Unshelved? [12 May 2008|09:42pm] unshelved_comic http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1052 If you are a librarian or educator who registered for BEA 2008 through our Unshelved@BEA page, please email me with whatever confirmation code you got from BEA. Before we draw our next winners I want to make sure we accounted for everyone. And if you haven't already, do it now! Posted by Bill on 5/12/2008 2:35:00 PM post comment

[12 May 2008|05:11pm] firynze [ mood | working ] You know you need to take more time off when the lovely lovely janitor asks you if you were sick last week, and doesn't quite believe you when you say you were on holiday... 3 comments|post comment

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