I want you to notice when I'm not around...wherever you are.

Saw QOTSA last night at the Riv. Talk about a horrible case of 'live-itis', every song was sped up to 'ludicrous'. Some of it worked, some of it was just too fast. Great set list, though, heard some great songs, missed a few, but in the scheme of it all, there were 17 songs played.

Monsters in the Parasol
Burn the Witch
Misfit Love
Run Pig Run
In the Fade
Turning On the Screw
I'm Designer
Little Sister
Make It Wit Chu
Do It Again
Avon
3's & 7's
You Can't Quit Me, Baby
Sick, Sick, Sick
Song for the Dead
You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire
No One Knows

I had fun at the show, brought someone who'd never seen em before, she seemed to like it, as I figured one should. I've seen better shows--excluding the Metro show w/ Dave Grohl on drums, as that's in a category of it's own. They did some great improvisation and some great jams in the middle of songs ('You Can't Quit Me, Baby'). The stage setup was great, too, some spiderweb-lookin chandeliers on what looked like giant spider legs. The lighting was great, and the pinnacle of it was during 'Sick, Sick, Sick'. The lights were flashing back and forth and on Josh Homme's (singer) face was split, so the left side would be eclipsed and then the right. Creepy lighting for a creepy-lyric song. I would say Mark Lanegan was missed on many songs, but the band managed to pull it off well.

Rock & Roll,
♥ Uncle J.

How to completely disappear and never be found....

I reckon I'm so-so on Radiohead's new marketing/album sales plan. I named my own price, 2.50 british pounds, which came to $5 and there was an additional $3 service. so i paid $8 for a digital download. I much prefer to have the ol'fashioned cd w/ case and insert w/ all sorts of knowlege useless to many like engineers, producers, studio info, etc....i figured, if i liked the album enough upon download, i'll make the $80 commitment for the uber-pack which has the download, a hardcopy of the album w/ artwork, a bonus cd w/ extra tracks, and i think a 2-record set on 180-gram vinyl.

upon listening to this album for the 3rd time round, it's growing on me. it was released digitally october 10th, i think, and i was skeptical, as i got very bored with Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Theif. Granted, I purchased all of them, and liked them at the time, i realized, they don't hold up as their 2 predecessors: The Bends and OK Computer. Those 2 albums were the apex of Radiohead's career. You can put them on at anytime, in any mood, in any year. I'm not saying they're 'timeless', b/c they're very dated--mid-to-late 1990's alternative, BUT, they hold up, nonetheless. Upon reading a bulletin posted (yes on the elusive and oddly infectious-slash-addictive 'myspace') by an acquaintence (i'd say friend, but we're only friends on myspace--though we'd both witnessed a truly amazing event, almost relgious experience known to us as 'church', but to others as the twilight singers'), i digress, Patrick wrote that he, too, was very into radiohead during the 90's, and then lost interest upon their alt-techno-avant-garde (dare i say 'hipster) era. He said 'In Rainbows', the new album, is as good as 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer'. I trust his taste in music, so I figured, what do ihave to lose, a few $ and maybe an hour...i went to www.radiohead.com, named my price: small enough to not hurt, but enough so i'm not asking for free shit, and it took all of 6minutes. Added the tracks to my itunes and put in my ipod. I like the album, but i miss thumbing through the insert and looking at the pictures..its a huge part of the music experience for me. Much like when listening to a record, you know, those big, black, vinyl, cd's your mom and dad used to put on when they were necking in grandma and grandpa's den. The smell of vinyl, the crackle of the sleeve in which the record comes in, the vastness of the album art (12"x12")....it's all part of music.

Check out Radiohead's album "In Rainbows", name your price, don't be a dick, but don't go overboard..unless you want to.

Choice tracks: "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", "Reckoner", and "Videotape"

♥,
Uncle J