Every once in a while, a few days - or more than a few days - pass where I'm not able to get on the internet and enjoy myself and do this here 'zine. Forgive the sometimes lengthy absences. Since we last spoke, Purple Door festival in Pennsylvania went down, featuring performances from Stretch Arm Strong, Anberlin and Brandtson, among a lot of others - rain canceled Blindside's set for the second consecutive year, while that same rain produced mud - a lot of it - which wound up being hurled at Project 86 onstage in a bit of tomfoolery that's apparently quite the discussion topic on the band's message board and elsewhere. Props to sweetdisaster supporter Heidi for spreading the gospel of our little 'zine everywhere she goes, to the point of wearing a homemade sd.com T-shirt. How dedicated is that?
Anyway. Some notes from watching TV lately:
- this Lithuanian shot-put champ, last name of Alekna - his day job is being a bodyguard for that nation's Prime Minister. Fascinating.
- I saw the video for 'Vindicated', the lead single by Dashboard Confessional, taken from the soundtrack of the second Spider-Man flick, and I have this to say - I remember fondly when Dashboard was Chris Carrabba with a guitar on a stool, playing in between Snapcase and some other band - and winning over crowds everywhere he went. I don't know about this full-band thing.
- 'Jesus Walks' is the current single and video from Kanye West, and I'd read articles about this song and how it was getting mad play in clubs all over the place despite being openly about God and faith. How awesome is that? And the song is sick.
- Slick Shoes' 'Now Is The Time'(off of Far From Nowhere) was played during an episode of MTV's Cribs. I forget what idiot celebrity's house was being profiled. Who cares.
- Also, during an episode of Pimp My Ride, an admittedly awesome show hosted by Xzibit where viewers' junkbox cars are remade into amazing pieces of hotrod action, 'Spy Hunter' by Project 86 was played. I severely dug that.
And finally today, in the Man, Their First Albums Were Good department: Five Iron Frenzy's 1996 debut Upbeats and Beatdowns remains a classic, and Norma Jean's debut album Throwing Myself, made when they were still called Luti-Kriss in 2000 or so, is so unbelievably heavy it still blows my skull.
More tomorrow. Read our Hartsfield review, submitted by the lovely Samantha. Word.
Posted by mike at August 25, 2004 06:24 PM