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Category Archives: the bluebird

2008 07 15 (62,120)

i wrote seven thousand words tonight, in under four hours. i have no idea how i did this, i think it might have to be chalked up to magic.
then i took myself off to the bluebird to see a bunch of bands. i really liked the first band that played (the analysts). they sounded a [...]

2008 06 07 (we could be free like contortionists who are free to bend around.)

tonight i went to the bluebird for the republic tigers and nada surf. i totally dug the republic tigers. they reminded me of mazzy star, but with a dude singer.
nada surf was kind of unimpressive, but i didn’t stay past the fourth song. breathing was tough b/c the air was soupy, and my [...]

2008 05 24 (the scene kids wear batman masks!)

tonight annie and i had an adventure: we drove into alton, il, to go to a venue called “illinoise” — cute, right? the band we saw was pretty decent, although i can’t remember their name. oh well. they sounded kind of like cave in to my untrained ear.
the venue was okay, but the sound was [...]

this is a picture of the venue i was at tonight with annie. you can’t really see anything in the picture, b/c the lighting was super bad. oh well.
i was going to talk about how awesome the show tonight was — think of drill meets oasis meets mazzy star, which, honestly, yeah, is basically tailor [...]