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Gemini Cricket has been getting radio play, here and elsewhere.
It’s cool to me that someone who’s not our friend is playing our music so far away.
So the sad news is, there’s no Big City Bread Athens Holiday Market (pictured above) this year. Yep — kaput. That’s been a longstanding, fun tradition for lots of people and will really be missed. (I’m trying to find out why it’s been discontinued, so hopefully news on that to come.)
But the good news is, Indie Craftsravaganzaa is going strong, and is set this year for 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Noon-5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6, again in the parking lot next to Agora/Caledonia on the corner of Clayton and Pulaski. There are so many amazing artists in this town, this market is a huge treat. Support local, y’all!
On another good news note, according to one source, some of the artists who have long participated in the Big City Bread Market may move the whole event over to the Chase Park Warehouse complex, where the Railroad Arts District has been having some super cool events on the first Fridays of each month. Will keep you posted on the holiday event and if it in fact solidifies over there.
documentary "Athens Burning" in the works about the Georgia Theatre
From the site:
a comprehensive High Production Value HD Video Documentary of approximately 100 minutes centered around the history of the historic Georgia Theater; also thoroughly covering the history of Athens Music Scene from the 1970’s until present, particularly with regard to links to the Georgia Theater. The film opens with the burning of the Theater in summer, 2009 and then starts over chronologically from the 1970s through the rebuilding of the Georgia Theater and its new opening.
Details to come.
on my way to Athens for the memorial of a friend tonight.
Jerry Fuchs died over a week ago. he the was the drummer of Maserati as well as !!!, Turing Machine, LCD Soundsystem, and about every fucking band in New York City from one time or another. but that doesn’t matter. what matters was the he was a really awesome guy and everyone who ever knew him is really sad right now.
Me & Jerry weren’t close friends, but still he was someone i always enjoyed seeing and hanging out with. i met him about 5 or 6 years ago when my band was playing a show with some of his friends, Panthers, in Atlanta. i’d seen him play drums in Turing Machine and thought he was a total badass so i was honestly a little intimidated to talk to him. he came up after the show and started talking to us and we got to drinking and he was really nice and really funny. about a year after that he was in Athens for New Year’s (i think…maybe it was just Christmas break) and he and i got drunk as shit and talked about being old dudes and about our hairlines and made fun of ourselves and had some good laughs. i had an instant man-crush for life. Jerry was fucking rad. totally unpretentious and amazingly talented and just really fucking funny and really nice. i am gonna miss him.
and if you just need to have your mind blown today, watch that video of him doing one handed drum fills. FUCK!!! so awesome.
RIP, dude.
Facebook's 'Unfriend' verb is voted ' Word of the Year'
Another reason I like tumblr oh so much… no need for unfriending.
Michael Lachowski and Vanessa Hay guest DJ on WUOG tonight from 8:30-10
Fun times on your 90.5 station.
Julian Koster is heading out again this year to give Christmas Carols with his singing saws in a house near you (wrote about this last year) — love this project so much.
Here’s his “proposed path”:
December 7-9: Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana & Lower Half of Illinois
December 10-12: Chicago, Illinois, Michigan
December 13-15: Ohio, Pittsburgh, Western NY
December 16-18: Upstate NY, New England (CT, RI, VT etc)
December 19-21: Philadelphia, NYC, Baltimore, DC, Chapel Hill
Also there’s this:You may invite the carolers to visit your house by emailing musictapescaroling@gmail.com or by mailing a handwritten letter to 450 N. Harris St. Athens, GA 30601 (due to time constraints, please send an email to let the “caroling ambassador” know you are sending a letter). Be sure to include an email address or telephone number for reply. Invitations where the hosts indicate that they would be willing to entertain outside guests on caroling night are preferred. Please note your permission to invite others from the area to your house and whether you can offer the carolers a place to sleep in your letter or email.
![thedailywhat: Apropos Of The Previous Post / Print Ad of the Day: JWT Kuwait for the International Vegetarian Union. Copy: “Vegetables are all your body needs.”
However you might feel about this ad’s message, there’s no denying the loveliness of its artwork. [via.]
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thedailywhat: Apropos Of The Previous Post / Print Ad of the Day: JWT Kuwait for the International Vegetarian Union. Copy: “Vegetables are all your body needs.”
However you might feel about this ad’s message, there’s no denying the loveliness of its artwork. [via.]
Agreed
bigcrush: Meant to post earlier: I was on the Today Show Tuesday! Kathy Lee tried to lick my fork and said Cornhole…like….a lot :P
Jessica Amason rocks it on The Today Show — complete with one of Ike and Jane’s specialties, the banana/peanut butter/bacon donut — as she promos her new book “THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT”
THIS SATURDAY! COME PARTY + HELP THE HOMELESS!!
@ShitMyDadSays gets television deal
CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.
“Will & Grace” creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are on board to executive produce and supervise the writing for the multicamera family comedy, which Halpern will co-pen with Patrick Schumacker. Halpern and Schumacker will also co-exec produce the Warner Bros. TV-produced project, which has received a script commitment.
Bad news for Nuci's Space
hoping we’ll see this go forward with a Supreme Court review. Charitable organizations that offset their costs by way of small profit-making endeavors should not be penalized but thanked for taking intitiative to do whatever it takes to stay afloat. The value of Nuci’s to this community is huge — this taxing is an atrocity.
“Not Since You,” the movie that was shot in Athens a couple of summers ago (formerly called “The Hill”) and executive produced by Ashley Epting, is screening out in Cali. at the American Film Market tonight.
Lots of locals came on to help bring the film to being, or appear as extras — and anyone familiar with the Epting compound will recognize the sites. Will keep posted for a potential Athens screening.
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Allison Weiss - “Fingers Crossed”
from upcoming album Allison Weiss Was Right All Along, due out on 11/24.
Everyone in Atlanta should go to the Earl tonight to see Allison perform. She’s pretty much a bad ass.
