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When the wheels ceased to spin and I cased my surroundings, I realized I hadn't gone anywhere

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over 2 years ago

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Shows I'm Going To

Bands Seen in 2006

  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Built to Spill
  • Harvey Danger (2)
  • Awesome
  • Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins (2)
  • Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
  • My Chemical Romance
  • Snow Patrol
  • Jet
  • Angels and Airwaves
  • Shiny Toy Guns
  • Gnarles Barkley
  • Rock Kill Kid
  • Wolfmother
  • Iron and Wine
  • Panic! at the Disco
  • Slender Means
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Wilco
  • Ben Kweller
  • The Shins (2)
  • The Violent Femmes
  • The Raconteurs
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers (2)
  • The Hold Steady
  • Dresden Dolls (2)
  • Mute Math (2)
  • Beck
  • Madisyahu
  • Jaime Liddell
  • Queens of the Stone Age (2)
  • The Decemberists (3)
  • Death Cab for Cutie (6)
  • Franz Ferdinand (2)
  • The Cribs (2)
  • The Lashes
  • Paramour
  • Nada Surf (3)
  • Rouge Wave

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Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    November 16, 2006

  • Age

    42

  • Where

    Seattle area

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This post about an Airborne Toxic Event is not about the swine flu but something just as contagious
4 days ago

Ever go to a show and have to suffer through opening bands that make you wonder if it is even worth waiting for the headliner? Where the 30 minutes of so-called music feels like forever and your ears are simply begging you to stick something sharp in them, to stop the agony? Last week I went to see The Airborne Toxic Event, who were preceded by Red Cortez and then The Henry Clay People. I am...

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Getting Down (and Staying Down) on Treasure Island
16 days ago

I ventured down the coast from Seattle to the Bay Area for the Treasure Island Music Festival. Life, being funny (I mean funny/strange, not funny Ha Ha) threw a slight curve ball and so I didn't make it to the first day's showing but hit the second day, starting with Thao With the Get Down Stay Down. I was only slightly familiar with their tunes but was quickly captivated by them. Thao's guit...

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Matt and Kim: Yeah, we're on a first name basis
25 days ago

Well, we aren't really that tight, but I did get to hang around them just a smidge at Bumbershoot.I was shooting for icecreamman.com and Matt & Kim stuck by the group for a while. I got to see Matt dunk a Roller Derby girl,pose for pictures with REALLY excited fans,and enjoy (not so much, really) a tamarind, lime and chili frozen "treat"But I had to admit to Matt that while I'd heard of them, ...

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Shows Seen 2008

  • Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
  • Band of Horses
  • Blitzen Trapper
  • The Offspring
  • Mudhoney
  • The Fluid
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Chromeo
  • The Hold Steady
  • Kay Kay and his weathered underground
  • The Ting Tings
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • NIN
  • Radiohead
  • The Blakes (2)
  • Jesus and Mary Chain
  • The Black Angels
  • The Warlocks
  • Los Campesinos
  • Modest Mouse
  • R.E.M.
  • The Whigs (4)
  • Dead Confederat
  • Colin Meloy (solo)
  • Roger Waters
  • Shout Out Louds
  • My Morning Jacket
  • Minus the Bear
  • VHS or Beta
  • Prince
  • Vampire Weekend
  • The Swell Season
  • The National
  • Jens Lekman
  • Colin Meloy
  • Rilo Kiley (x2)
  • Death Cab for Cutie (x4)
  • Ghostland Observatory
  • Nada Surf (3)
  • Presidents of the United States of America x2
  • Harvey Danger
  • A Place to Bury Strangers
  • The Hives
  • The Donnas
  • "Awesome"
  • Nada Surf
  • The Decemberists
  • The Lashes

Bands Seen So Far 2007

  • Dylan covers by Seattle artists
  • Robyn Hitchcock
  • George Clinton
  • Pinback
  • Frightened Rabbit
  • Bat for Lashes
  • Black Lips
  • Circus Contraption
  • Rilo Kiley
  • Apples in Stereo
  • Kings of Leon x2
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Incubus
  • Nada Surf
  • The Capillaries
  • Fountains of Wayne
  • The Capillaries
  • Harvey Danger multiple times
  • Pearl Jam
  • Modest Mouse x2
  • The Black Angels
  • The Heartless Bastards
  • White Rabbits
  • The Hold Steady x2
  • Motion City Soundtrack
  • Aqueduct (2)
  • Tapes 'n Tapes
  • I'm From Barcelona
  • Blonde Redhead
  • Silversun Pickups
  • Against Me!
  • Ghostland Observatory x3
  • Menomena
  • 3 Leg Torso
  • The National x2
  • The Broken West (2)
  • Rocky Votolato
  • Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble
  • Ben Gibbard
  • Nelson sings Nilsson
  • The Decemberists (x2)
  • The Lashes x2
  • Mute Math
  • The Cinematics
  • Ted Leo and the Pharmacists(x2)
  • Somebody Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin
  • Sean Nelson and His Mortal Enemies x3
  • The Long Winters
  • Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 (x2)
  • Presidents of the United States of America x4
  • Super Nova
  • Awesome (4 times)
  • Patti LaBelle
  • Journey

My First Concert Was

  • Billy Joel Key Arena or whatever it was called then - 1990ish

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