So This Is The New Year
This is what we're doing tonight. Anyone else seeing live music to ring in 2005?
Posted at 12:43 PM
December 31, 2004
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celeste and i are going to see Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos tonight at tonic. it's a little pricy but - hey - it's nye!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006OB6/102-3302212-9005763?v=glance
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I heard! I saw them @ Bonnaroo. Cubanoriffic.
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I'm seeing The Killers, along with a ton of big name DJs (Oakenfold, Digweed, et al.) at Giant NYE in downtown LA.
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You're seeing the Killers!? SOOOOO LUCKY. Ugh, I'd do anything to see them live.
Happy New Yeeeear!
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How old are you stereogum? Just wondering...
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SF-
I'm seeing Gold Chains & Sue Cie with Hey Willpower (who is about to tour with scissor sisters, just toured with le tigre, and rules a lot)
Also another party has Coachwhips, Numbers, So So Many White White Tigers.
Everyone who reads this should seek out those bands and pursue them like sexual predators. Like, right now.
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My band's opening for the Femmes here in San Diego. A little lifelong dream come true. Yipeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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tonight i'm planning on eating more than a few TIGHT RIPE ASSES. then i'm gonna puke em out and eat a few fuckin more !!!!
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I'm seeing Eisley here in Dallas.
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i am sitting at home, sipping brandy w/ sadie mae watchin' old home viddys like the old folks we is. . .. . it is too f**kin' snowed out in reno!
(no one here worth trudgin'out for anyhow. . . )
have a snappy new gear in the next . . . .
(and how old r u anywho?)
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I saw Eisley, Radiant* and Pilotdrift at Trees in Dallas. Then I called my girlfriend at midnight. Awwww... Eisley are level 5 wood-nymphs with +3 vs. hetero males. Pilotdrift bring the ever-important ambient rock, circus music, rockabilly and melodic synth-rock amalgam to the lineup. Check them out if you haven't.
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I was fortunate enough to catch !!! (Chk Chk Chk) at some club in Philadelphia while I was there for the weekend visiting a few friends. !!! kicked 2004's ass out and ushered in 2005 in grand ass-shakin' fashion. It was wild.
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