Lovies

Taken at Ivy's going away party in March.

happy birthdays

happy birthday to ivy and jeremy.

here are some pics from last year's festivities.

REMEMBER WHEN I HAD PURPLE HAIR? THIS IS WHEN THE WHOLE PURPLE OBSESSION STARTED.

Strokes News

In an August interview with Fab Moretti, he reveals some details about the Strokes getting back in the studio in FEBRUARY. Here is the excerpt:

What about the Strokes?
The plan is for us to start getting our ideas together in February. I can’t wait to see those guys and work on music with them, but right now all of my focus is on this. With me and [guitarist] Nick [Valensi] living in L.A., and everyone else in New York City, I feel a bit detached from the rest of the guys, but we keep in touch. It's weird, for ten years — since 1998 — we were together all the time.

There was a rumor a while back that the Strokes might work with producer Rick Rubin on the next record.
I'd love to work with Rick Rubin. He made some pretty seminal records. But it's like, before we have an idea, before there's a sketch done, we’re not going to choose the color.

Full article

And listen to KEEP ME IN MIND - LITTLE JOY

Phantom Planet

I love Phantom Planet and have for years! Way before California was the OC theme song!

They are currently on tour and have been performing and shooting these little acoustic sets after their shows on the street outside the venues.


Here are some songs from their show at 9:30 Club:


Geronimo


By the Bed


1st Things 1st


I was going to go to this show, but it was an early show and didn't go. Now I'm sad that I missed this.

Plus those three songs are three of my faves.

Sunday Funday

Yesterday was a beautiful fall day, except I think it was like 80 degrees.

I met Suse for brunch at Lauriol Plaza and then we spent the rest of the day walking around the neighborhood.

We stopped at the Ashley on 18th street.

Then we met up with the girls at Bourbon.

Then we went to Veritas to see Fred. This is where my night ended. I also did not take a lot of photos. Missing here are Sarah and the adorable girls who were wearing only clothes from a clothing swap.

I'm looking forward to more fall days.

It's fall.

and i love fall.

yesterday, we went to homestead farms to pick pumpkins.



We were joined by Melody and Drew.


We took a hay ride down to the pumpkin patch.


Sarah found this huge gourd.


In search of the perfect pumpkin.



weighing and paying for our pumpkins.



We played on the farm.



We stopped at the general store on the way home.



Back at Sarah's we carved pumpkins, ate things made only of pumpkin and watched Sleepaway Camp and Wrong Turn.

FUNDRAISER FOR OBAMA

Fundraiser for Obama!
(hosted by GASP)

The event runs from 3pm til midnight so stop by anytime.

Saturday October 4th, 3pm @ Dahlak
1771 U Street (next to El Tam) at the bottom of Adams Morgan!

$5 suggested minimum donation, but more is of course welcome.
It's an all day event, so please stop by for a bit!

Deleted Scenes
Seamonster
Beluga
Kalem Jones
Jon Heintz
The Mirror Script
Greenland (acoustic)
Sad Crocodile
Sam McCormally
+ special guests
+ fun
+ you

Thanks!

I'm so proud of my Ivy!

first day of Law School!

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Awesome

things are good

reasons why:

1. I'm going to the beach tomorrow.

2. I have discovered the picnik application on flickr and it's awesome (proof below):

AND....
3.
the My Drive Thru Video is available on myspace.


Produced By Pharrell - Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D.

it's like one long converse commercial. and you know i love it because there are hundereds of julians.
and i LOVE when jules dances!!!!

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Meetings at discovery are like this.

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landing in boston

so, um, apparently, we are on BYT

I still have not posted pics from Jenni's birthday yet.

But oh, we were much happier than this in my pics.

Check the rest of the afterparty on BYT

Albert News

thanks to the modernage.org, we know that Albert Hammond Jr. played an invite only show in NYC last night.

the album drops on tuesday, july 8, but you can listen to it on his myspace page.

i've had it for weeks thanks to dave sullivan (a fellow die-hard strokes fan)

i like this album much better than the first one.
fave tracks include:
-bargain of the century
-the boss americana
-victory at monterey
-feed me jack

so check it out. and then tell me how much you want to travel with bunk industries to see him in nyc on august 15 when he plays at mccarren park pool


looks like they need a break before touring.

Remember the Vines?

I was really into the Vines first album. When it was released they compared the lead singer, Craig Nicholls, to Kurt Cobain. That was kind of a stretch, but then the Rolling Stones expose about the Vines came out and we all found all that Craig was kind of a freak. LC and I were really got into the fact that Craig was basically a stoner with special needs.


So, anyway, the Vines have a new album coming out and here is the first single and video from the album, Melodia.



But I still prefer the first single. I LOVE all of that screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



ooooooooooooooo and this video. he is crazyface/babyface. I love it!!!

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This just opened across from lr's apt. Better name than tangy sweet. And less sterile too.

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she was so suprised but she said yes.

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Just in case

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In case you forgot

Sweat - It's still the new makeup. Part 2

SATURDAY

On Saturday, somehow I woke up too early and met up with the mammal, wes, angie and friends at Asylum. It was hot as balls outside. The mammal needed a cheerfest so I told her that she was in my hands for the rest of the day and that all her problems would be solved in two beers. We were going on a bar crawl down 18th street until we got to the bus stop. Bets and Jeremy had invited us over later that day for an AC party. The plan was to drink our way down to the bus stop, hop on the bus and sit in the AC.

Somehow, when making this plan, I forgot that most the bars are closed during the day. The only place open was La Fourchette, so we stopped in for a bottle of champagne. One of our favorite things to do in DC during the summer is sit outside and drink champagne - I mean duh, who doesn't love to do this?

We were only able to sit outside for twenty minutes (and that was pushing it) before we almost melted into our chairs. So we took the champagne party indoors. This is when the idea for whiskey watermelon was born. But, before we continued on to the AC party, the mammal had another great idea ---- to get matching tattoos. And thus our day REALLY began:

The mammal carried a watermelon.

We finally made it to the AC party. There was a lot of sitting, smoking, eating whiskey watermelon and um....

The mammal and I ended the day by sleeping in the guest room on NJ Ave.

Sweat - It's still the new makeup.

Two weekends ago, it was the hottest it had been year-to-date. There is little to do in DC when it's hot other than sweat and drink beer. We are pretty good at those two things and sometimes they make us a little crazy.

FRIDAY
That Friday night, we went to Angie's for Wes' Birthday Party. In DC, there are two things guaranteed at every party - sweating and exboyfriends. And it's really fun to sweat in front of your exboyfriend.

Let's take a look at some sweating:

Here are Liz and Nat sweating and drinking beer

Here is our friend, the mammal. She looks cute when she sweats. I think it helps when you wear a little dress. It minimizes the sweat.

Oh, and there's Betsy. Always classy, even when sweaty.

And a sweaty Ian and a sweaty Jeromeny.

Even the girls from the Honeysuckle Hideout were sweaty. But at this point, their AC had not been installed yet.

And the birthday boy was really sweaty. He had also just woken up from being passed out. I think when this photo was taken it was only 11pm.

And Casey. He really knows how to keep it real in the 100 degree weather.

The Liz's were definitely ready to go. We had enough of the exparade and we split right after this photo was taken and went to the Raven.

The Raven provided us with a very interesting evening with some young men from Scandinavia. LC thinks that this night was worse than our evening in Bailey's X-Roads. If you haven't heard that story before, you can ask us sometime when we are drunk. It's a good one.

After our diversion for the evening, we met back up with the party peeps at Mark's house just in time for the sunrise. I fell asleep on the back steps. And then it was time to go home.

Fort Reno Sked

Apparently, there is not enough Arsenic to kill us at Fort Reno.

I am not super impressed with the line-up, but I do enjoy sitting and picnicking on Arsenic laced grass.

But, where is Len Bias? where is Greenland? Where is Mother? Where is Tiger and the Snow?
Where are you friends?

Monday, June 23rd

Olivia Mancini & the Housemates, New Rock Church of Fire, Evolution

Thursday, June 26th

Zulu Pearls, Dress Up, The Shakes

Monday, June 30th

Bellman Barker, The Moderate, Gestures

Thursday, July 3rd

Perfect Souvenir, The Andalusians, The Makeshift Shakedown

Monday, July 7th

Sarah Azzara, The City Veins, The Boom Orangutangs

Thursday, July 10th

Black & White Jacksons, John Wayne Hero, Friends of the Library

Monday, July 14th

Death by Sexy, True Womanhood, Sinta

Thursday, July 17th

The Apes, Police and Thieves, We Were Pirates

Monday, July 21st

Pup Tent, RaRa Rasputin

Thursday, July 24th

Statehood

Monday, July 28th

Ex-Motorcycle Couriers, Memories From the Space Age

Thursday, July 31st

Kid Congo Powers, The Shirks, Girl Loves Distortion

Monday, August 4th

Exit Clov, Cobra Collective

Thursday, August 7th

Julie Ocean

Monday, August 11th

These United States, Jukebox the Ghost

Thursday, August 14th

TBD

Last night

Last night, Mammal, Crowie and I went to DC9 to see the Gray Kid. The three of us have recently reunited and are hitting the pavement like it's 2004!

Liz and I sat in a booth drinking screwdrivers while the mammal and her brother rocked with some tambourines toward the front of the stage. Good topics for discussion at the Gray Kid show include:
- Katherine Heigl movies
- the Judd Apatow boys club
- Pineapple Express
- James Franco
- Gia from Full House

We finally made our way up to the Mammal in time to hear Lonely Love and then we went out for a cigarette.

Outside there were a bunch of skinny boys with long hair and an old tan dude sporting some country western garb.

I was ready to go, but Liz said we should check out the Parlor Mob, so we went back upstairs with our fresh Screwdrivers (which by the way, is the best drink of summer.)

We posted up at the bar as the Parlor Mob took the stage. As soon as they started playing, we stopped dead in our tracks. When we recovered, we rushed to the front of the stage. It was the skinny guys from outside and they were not another boring indie rock band!!!!

This band somehow took a time machine from 1973 to 2008. It was like 24 year olds playing this modernized version of Led Zepplin and not in a cheesey cover song type of way. More in a facemelting, flip you shit type of way!

Crowie and I kept grabbing each other and freaking out. She was screaming and at one point looked at me and said, "Music is my drug."

We haven't felt this way about a band since the Strokes.

There were some young women standing in front of us and we asked them where the band was from and they said New Jersey and that they went to high school with some of the guys. We told them how we loved the Stone Pony and they told us that Parlor Mob is playing the Stone Pony next Saturday night. We told them we'd see them there.

After the show, we gushed to each member of the Parlor Mob about how our faces melted and we were refreshed and amazed by their band. They were incredibly nice and thankful and really excited that we are coming to see them at the Stone Pony. (We just happened to see the Strokes at the pony in 2001 and have been looking for an excuse to go back for awhile now.) So, we gushed about Asbury Park, which is their hometown and ridiculousness just ensued. We got all their merch!

(the mammal somehow missed all of this because she got in a time machine and traveled back to 1993 and was reliving freshman year of high school.)

So next weekend, Crowie and I are meeting up in Asbury Park. She will be in NYC picking up her SY ticket and hanging with the pizza bagel. Hopefully, Grez will ride his bike down to hang with us.

Here are some pics and videos of the Parlor Mob




And these are the dudes - super cute, super nice


And their myspace page.

The Julian Converse Track is HERE

Here is the track - My Drive Thru

Music video to follow shortly.

Check out the Converse website.

And of course, I'm already obsessed. It's a pretty decent song of summer.

Texas Chainsaw Mass Choir

Wondering what Greg Roberts, Adam Russell and Alex Evan were doing before the White Rabbits?

Well, they were playing in this punk band in Columbia, MO called TEXAS CHAINSAW MASS CHOIR.

Oh YES!

Listen here

AND, oh yes, there are PHOTOS!!!!