Busa Bombs: February 2009

Friday

Into The Flood.

I saw As Tall As Lions last night at Bottom of the Hill... and they KILLED it. HOWEVER they did not play my favorite song... so I will give it my own shout out. I asked Sergio from the band why they didn't play it, and he actually apologized to me, and told me they would play it when they are back in SF, and they would dedicate it to me :) Holler.

Into The Flood - As Tall As Lions

Thursday

Sk-Sk-SKEEZE

*Shaine, you have a good eye! You might want to consider free rent...fail.

Monday

Munk.

Slow Jams at Blogging Is Serious Business

Loooooveee it.

Weekend Update:

This weekend was... pretty chill.

Fun.

A little late, but Happy V-day!

Street Valentine

Kittens inspired by... Kittens!

"I'm her Mom!"
"No... she's not!"

Friday

a lovely cover.

Rogue Wave Covers Yeah Yeah Yeahs + Drugs In My Body! at Pretty Much Amazing!

Thursday

JUST DANCE

*Cred goes to Gangstaleens

S&TC the sequel?

*I'm not so sure how I feel about this...

Sex And The City's King Confirms Sequel Deal
6 February 2009 8:05 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Sex And The City writer/director Michael Patrick King has delighted millions of fans worldwide by confirming a movie sequel to the 2008 hit is in the works. Reports surfaced earlier this week claiming the four leading ladies - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis - had officially signed on to make a follow up to the big-screen adaptation last year following months of speculation.

And now King has expressed his delight at reteaming with the stars once again - but he's refusing to reveal any ideas he has for the new movie script.

He says, "I'm very excited to work with these amazing actresses again and would love to give everyone more information about the sequel... but I'm busy with my Sex life."

Greed.

Happy Birfday Hotel Utah!

100ish Birthday Weekend February 13–16

Friday, February 13
$3 Guinness and Harp all day
4–8 pm: Storytime! The best Hotel Utah story gets a free drink
Time Warp Cocktails and free appetizers
9pm: Pebble Theory · Highway Robbers · Strangefeather

Saturday, February 14 · doors open at 6pm
Oyster shooters, Time Warp Cocktails, and free appetizers
“10 Decades of Style” costume contest: embrace a decade!
Prizes include cool Guinness shwag and reprints of Hotel Utah art
9pm: El Capitan · Let's Make Something · beats by U9lift.

Sunday, February 15
$5 Blue Ice Bloody Marys, Buckets o’ Bud, Bud American Ale on tap
$1 Hot Dogs
3pm: Surf Sunday withPollo Del Mar · Slacktone · the Pyronauts
7pm: The Sweet Remains · Megan Slankard · Joel Streeter

Monday, February 16
Celebrate the New President’s Day!
11:30am: Open for BBQ and $5 Blue Ice Bloody Marys
7:30pm: Sign up for our legendary Open Mic, with a Host Reunion

DON'T DO DRUGS.

I actually watched this last night... and it made me feel really uneasy. It's just so sad to see such a talented person go absolutely nuts. Either that, or he is a master of trickery! He has been rumored to have Casey Affleck and a camera crew following him around since he "retired" from acting, and started a "rapping" carreer.

I'm banking on Barbiturates.

That Letterman experience reminded me of my favortie one... another classic, courtesy of a young Drew Barrymore:

Wednesday

Nightlife

I ♥ the California Academy of Sciences. This is for sure going to be a stellar weekly event, one that requires advance ticket purchasing. I know what I'm doing on Thursday nights from here on out!!

"I am extremely..."

The 10th most popular search for "I am extremely..." is seriously that? Attention: this is not a joke. Try it out.

Seriously Google?

Tuesday

So Cosmic Mix

So Cosmic Mix - Cut Copy

SO Chill.

Evan B. Harris & Amy Ruppel

The Mark Wollery Gallery in Portland is currently showing collections from Trish Grantham, Evan Harris & Amy Ruppel. But it is also showing a collection of collaborations by Evan Harris and Amy Ruppel. I absolutely adore Ruppel, and these pieces are enchanting. Now all I need is around $900, or just a really nice laser printer...

Evan B. Harris & Amy Ruppel collaborated on these subtle encaustic works, with Ruppel rendering naturalistic animal portraits and Harris bedecking them with elegant incised patterning.

Both accomplished artists in their own right, Harris & Ruppel have shared a friendship and Portland studio space for years; this show represents their first time making work together.

For more of their calaboration, click here.

Jonah.

If you haven't seen Summer Heights High, you're a fool.

Say CHEEEEESSSSEEE!

February 21, 2009
12:00pm - 5:00pm

GRILLING STARTS AT 1:00PM SHARP

San Francisco, CA

(EXACT LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED WEEK OF THE EVENT)

Registration for the 2nd Annual NorCal Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational is now open!

Anyone is welcome to attend this event and you do not have to compete in order to sample a sammich.

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GRILLED CHEESE CHAMPION?

CAN YOU GRILL LIKE A BUTTERFLY AND STING LIKE A BEE?

DO YOU HAVE THE GUTS?

The 2nd Annual NorCal Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational will be the best thing to happen to San Francisco ever!

Attendees are handed sammiches and rate them accordingly. We then tabulate the results, dispense trophies and wrap ourselves up in the cheese glory!

Awards are determined by audience vote for each sammich.

For the winners, there will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophy awarded in each category. There will also be two Spaz awards that will be given to different sammiches that are the biggest Spazes and mountains of grilled cheese for everybody!

For the NorCal regional competition, the organizers of the GCI have selected three categories of competition, definitions are as follows:

The Missionary Position: Standard bread, standard butter and standard cheese. No additional ingredients or flavorings allowed.

The Kama Sutra: Any kind of bread, any kind of butter, and any kind of cheese (or blend of cheeses) plus additional ingredients.

The Honey Pot: Any kind of bread, any kind of butter, any kind of cheese (or blend of cheeses), and any additional ingredients, but a sandwich that is sweet in flavor, or would best be served as dessert.

On February 21st, we will part the mighty mountain of fresh-baked loaves, wade knee-deep in the melted cheese and swim eye-high in the butterfat, but only a few, only the proud, the cheesiest, will earn the sacred right to hold a glimmering, golden trophy aloft for all to see and scream to the malignant heavens above: "I am a f@#king grilled cheese champion™!"

*For more info about the Grilled Cheese Invitational, click HERE.

KERplunk.

Joaquin Phoenix takes a fall, a great way to start his carreer as a rapper...?

The Asteroid Galaxy Tour

I KNOW they've been around awhile... but I seriously keep coming back and listening to them. They just put me in a happy mood. Maybe it's my inner disco-hippy.

Taiwan Lantern Festival

One of the activities on my "bucket list"...

Monday

Bee-hivin'

Swagger Like Us

A verrrry preggers (her due date was yesterday) MIA held her own, proving no one on the corner has a swagger like her. There was actually a golf cart off stage, waiting to take her to the hospital if she started going into labor. In the words of Fergs, "MIA- Such a badass!"

Radiohead & USC Marching Band

Thom just wants you to dance.

Batwoman!

The big announcement from DC Comics at New York Comic Con?

A lesbian superhero!!

Batman will be taking a backseat in 2009 and handing the Detective Comics series over to Batwoman, who will mark the publisher's "most high profile title starring a gay superhero."

DC is planning for 12 issues featuring the openly gay superhero starting in June.

Youth Revolt

Like I need another reason to LOVE Michael Cera.

Raising Sand

If you are wondering why this pair swooped the Grammy's, wonder no longer. The first track, Rich Woman, is by far my favorite, but you be your own judge... The review below is one I completely agree with. This album makes me want to kick back in a squeaky rocking chair on a dingy porch in the country, with a glass of whiskey in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
By Dave White

The Rock Music Cross-genre collaborations are often more about marketing than music. Sometimes they are designed to jump-start an older artist's sagging career or to give a young artist exposure by being paired with an established one.

With no sagging careers and the artists firmly established, the collaboration between Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and producer T Bone Burnett is all about the music. Raising Sand is less a joining of genres than it is the coming together of musical talent that isn't limited by any one style of music.

The Players
Much has been made of the seeming incongruity of the Plant-Krauss pairing, but it's time to just get over it.

Krauss is an avowed classic rock fan, being particularly fond of a little band called Led Zeppelin, for whom Plant wrote and performed music that had extensive blues, folk and Celtic influences. If you had played a game of Six Degrees of Alison Krauss before this collaboration ever came about, it wouldn't have taken more than a degree or two to connect these artists.

And then there's T Bone Burnett. Songwriter, musician (he toured with Bob Dylan back in the day and plays guitar on most of this album's tracks) and, most famously, producer of albums and movie soundtracks (he somehow managed to coach Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon to sound like Johnny and June Carter Cash in Walk The Line.) He has a gift for blending vocal and instrumental elements, and coaxing just the right interpretation of lyrics.

The Sound

Photo by Pamela Springsteen, courtesy Rounder RecordsGiven the track records of all involved, there was never any doubt that the result of this collaboration would be good. But the imagination can only go so far in predicting what two of the most distinctive and recognizable voices imaginable would sound like together.

One of my biggest questions is answered in the opening track, "Rich Woman." Plant sings lead, but tempered with Krauss' harmony, neither voice dominates. To the contrary, the blend is so natural, you'd think they had been singing together for years.

Again on the closing track, "Your Long Journey," this time with Krauss leading and Plant harmonizing, the resulting blend is the stuff of which goosebumps are made.

Krauss leads on "Through The Morning, Through The Night" which is the one track that is most like what you might expect to hear on one of her albums.

Several of the arrangements have a slightly mysterious, almost haunting sound that is characteristic of many of Burnett's own recordings. This works well on "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" and "Polly Come Home."

No Boundaries
The various musical influences that both artists bring to the party are evident throughout. "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" -- written by The Everly Brothers -- is somewhere between bebop and The Byrds. Hard rock meets the blues on Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin'".

Plant, Krauss and Burnett are masters of their craft, which is that of creating memorable music. This is, hands down, the best collaboration that has come about in a very long time -- maybe since The Traveling Wilburys. If Raising Sand doesn't result in more than one GRAMMY, I'll be very surprised.

Sunday

Chris Brown= EPIC FAIL

Chris Brown Investigated For Assault

Chris Brown is being investigated by the LAPD for an alleged assault on a female.

“The identity of the victim will not be released,” Officer April Harding tells People. “Any victim who’s involved in a domestic violence incident is entitled to confidentiality.”

Around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, Chris and an unnamed woman were arguing inside of a vehicle when suddenly things turned violent. According to TMZ, the woman suffered visible injuries and identified Chris as her attacker.

The LAPD say they received a 911 call reporting the disturbance. “If police locate Brown, yes, he’s subject to arrest,” Officer Harding added.

Earlier Saturday night, Chris and girlfriend Rihanna were at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills. Rihanna’s rep says, “Rihanna is well. Thank you for concern and support.”

On Sunday afternoon, one JJ reader had this report about the disturbance.

Both Chris and Rihanna were supposed to hit the red carpet and perform at the Grammys. Both will not be in attendance tonight. A Grammy rep says Rihanna’s face is slightly bruised and adds, “We have just been informed that Rihanna will not be attending tonight’s 51st Annual Grammy Awards. We’re sorry she is unable to join us this evening.”

UPDATE: Chris Brown has turned himself into the cops.

Carmensita

Devendra Banhart, you've done it again.

Doooo-Wop!

I found a listing of the 100 greatest Motown songs! Leens and I have been talking a lot about putting together a doo-wop playlist for a while now, and now we are one step closer :) Go to the website to listen to the top 50 songs!

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
2. My Girl - Temptations
3. Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops
4. Where Did Our Love Go? - Supremes
5. What's Goin' On? - Marvin Gaye
6. Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
7. I Want You Back - Jackson 5
8. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
9. Please Mr. Postman - Marvelettes
10. My Guy - Mary Wells
11. (Love Is Like a) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
12. Do You Love Me? - Contours
13. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
14. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
15. The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
16. Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
17. I'll Be There - Jackson 5
18. Baby Love - Supremes
19. Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - Temptations
20. Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder
21. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - Four Tops
22. The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
23. Stop! In the Name of Love - Supremes
24. You've Really Got a Hold On Me - Miracles
25. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - Temptations
26. Baby I Need Your Lovin' - Four Tops
27. You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
28. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
29. Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong
30. Leavin' Here - Eddie Holland
31. Shop Around - Miracles
32. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Supremes
33. You Can't Hurry Love - Supremes
34. Endless Love - Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
35. Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
36. Ooo Baby Baby - Miracles
37. Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas
38. It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston
39. War - Edwin Starr
40. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
41. Super Freak Part I - Rick James
42. Living For the City - Stevie Wonder
43. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips
44. Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
45. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations
46. I Can't Get Next To You - Temptations
47. Cloud Nine - Temptations
48. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - Temptations
49. Smiling Faces Sometimes - Undisputed Truth
50. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You) - Isley Brothers
51. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? - Jimmy Ruffin
52. Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye
53. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
54. Playboy - Marvelettes
55. Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas
56. Don't Mess With Bill - Marvelettes
57. Since I Lost My Baby - Temptations
58. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
59. All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
60. Going To a Go-Go - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
61. Fingertips Part II - Stevie Wonder
62. The One Who Really Loves You - Mary Wells
63. Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight & The Pips
64. Love Hangover - Diana Ross
65. Upside Down (Inside Out) - Diana Ross
66. Brick House - Commodores
67. I Wish It Would Rain - Temptations
68. Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes
69. The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game - Marvelettes
70. Bernadette - Four Tops
71. Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
72. Hello - Lionel Richie
73. It's the Same Old Song - Four Tops
74. You've Made Me So Very Happy - Brenda Holloway
75. Jamie - Eddie Holland
76. Your Precious Love - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
77. Quicksand - Martha & The Vandellas
78. Come and Get These Memories - Martha & The Vandellas
79. Keep on Truckin' Part I - Eddie Kendricks
80. Needle In a Haystack - Velvelettes
81. (I'm a) Roadrunner - Junior Walker & The All-Stars
82. ABC - Jackson 5
83. I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross
84. Give It To Me Baby - Rick James
85. Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
86. My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) - David Ruffin
87. Three Times a Lady - Commodores
88. Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer/The Elgins
89. Let It Whip - Dazz Band
90. It's a Shame - Spinners
91. Baby I'm For Real - Originals
92. The Bells - Originals
93. He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Velvelettes
94. Come To Me - Marv Johnson
95. I Need Your Lovin' - Teena Marie
96. The Love You Save - Jackson 5
97. What Does It Take (To Win Your Love?) - Jr. Walker
98. Function At The Junction - Shorty Long
99. Does Your Mama Know About Me? - Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
100. Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam) - Monitors/Valadiers

I Was Born This Way - Carl Bean
Do I Love You? (Indeed I Do) - Frank Wilson
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Quiet Storm - Smokey Robinson
Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder
Blowin' In the Wind - Stevie Wonder
Silent Night - Temptations
Love's Gone Bad - Underdogs

Friday

F My Life

Shaine introduced me to my newest interweb obsession: F My Life.

I know it's wrong, but it's funny.

FIDELITY

"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

Thanks Shaine!