May 2009
40 posts
Even the fibercrafters rock in Athens
I mean, here’s this from Clairelis, a retired schoolteacher, and member of the fibercraft guild in Athens:
We’re going to shoot off our yarn cannonballs on Sat. June 20 between 10 and 2 at the double-barrelled cannon.
YARN CANNONBALLS! YES!
Sigur Ros recording new album →
Good music taste starts in the womb →
(via ohdearlord)
Whigs secret show last night
I love that this was happening last night whilst I got my movie on. Athens is so good. I walked out of Cine and, too, heard the ear-shattering goings on at Max Canada (Music Hates You, Hot Breath and the Dumps on the patio) reported by Michelle Gilzenrat to be heard all the way up Boulevard. I don’t doubt it for a second. Granted — it’s not necessarily music I wanted to hear at...
Newspapers meeting to consider charging for online... →
Personally, I think instead we should start charging for comments — per comment. Cut back on some of the idiotic, offensive crap that flows out of people so freely.
“The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller,...”
– Ernesto Che Guevara
“No. 5: Athens, Georgia”
– Agree with Shorter Excerpts comments — living here’s great, but work is seriously hard to come by. Unless you like bartending and/or waiting tables with your degree.
Lifehacker - The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Live and Work - Best Cities in the US
To live? Oh no arguments here.
To work?...
Looking very forward to the Pattern Is Movement...
Watchtheslowlearner:
Lila once again manages to create adorableness from thin air (although I candidly believe that there’s more than just a croquet set in her “secret stash”)
via lilacina:
Croquet anyone?
In which my secret stash is revealed to the entire world (or at least the part of it that watches video on CNN.com)
The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More →
Reblogged from shorterexcerpts: sarahchristine: katoleary:
“Poverty 101: We’ll start with the basics.
Like food: You don’t have a car to get to a supermarket, much less to Costco or Trader Joe’s, where the middle class goes to save money. You don’t have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner store, where a gallon of milk costs an extra dollar.
A loaf of bread there...
Morton to host Moutain Music & Medicine Show...
The Packway Handle Band, The Solstice Sisters and old time duo sound of Beverly Smith & Carl Jones will be the guests of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Mountain Music & Medicine Show,” which will land in Athens during AthFest.
From the release:
MOUNTAIN MUSIC & MEDICINE SHOW has won three GABBY awards from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters for the best locally...
'nother good Buck quote from Pitchfork interview
On Portland:
“I go there all the time, and nobody says anything. It’s funny. Johnny Marr has a place there, and we are kind of friends. I walked into this ice cream shop, and the guy goes, ‘Jesus, what a weird day.’ He goes, ‘Johnny Marr walked in here like 20 minutes ago, and now you. Is this like indie guitar 80s day or something?’ I don’t know; it just...
“This record, I want it to be broader; I think Michael is into that. So there are...”
– Peter Buck talking to Pitchfork re. R.E.M.’s followup to “Accelerate”
of note
The videos and notes at the pinkerpage blog that follow the one of Rick Astley singing karaoke in Athens are FAR more entertaining than Astley’s rendition of his own song. Which is a teeny bit creepy, maybe b/c the club seems so empty and people don’t seem to be particularly into it.
Athens Rickrolled -- →
Reblogged from below. A source close to boyball told me a few weeks that Rick Astley had popped in to a karaoke at Blur a week before the big Boybutante Ball on April 18.
Here’s evidence!
heyimmarie:
it was true Rickrolled IRL
What three locally owned stores would you miss the...
Our business editor Don Nelson ran a column on Sunday about the importance of buying from *LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES*
gleaned from the wonderful 3/50 project
All we have to do is spend $50 a month at businesses owned by our friends and neighbors and we’re golden — check it out
Budding British bands are being offered the chance... →
Circulatory System release set for Aug. 4!
You will know this band by its mastermind, he of The Olivia Tremor Control, Will Cullen Hart; the CD, “Signal Morning,” of 7 1/2 years in the making (Will took this on while battling Multiple Sclerosis).
More from the release: Featuring all the members of The Olivia Tremor Control, as well as Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster of Neutral Milk Hotel, Signal Morning has been eagerly...
Update on "Reckoning" question
From Mr. Montgomery, the coolest fan in town — this time around, no plans for a release party featuring Athens bands covering the album. It is AthFest week, after all, he reminds.
That said, AthFest is a tribute to the band in its own way, Montgomery notes —the music scene today being largely due to R.E.M.’s lasting impact on this here ‘burg.
That said, ** maybe Athens...
Music Schedule for OCAF Southworks Artist Market
OCAF’s Southworks is a lovely affair as well, with artists setting up their goods in front of the OCAF building on School Street in Watkinsville 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The music lineup includes
Saturday:
10:30-11:30 Jeff Soileau
Noon-1:30 Grogus
1:30-2:30 Grains of Sand
2:30-3:30 Jazz Chronic
3:30-4:30 Porch to the People
Sunday:
10:30-11:30 Tropical Breeze
Noon-1:30...
