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A one in a million, chance of a lifetime:

Spinal Tap: Reunited and it feeels so Good.
So, there's all these awfully tense feelings around the stuff like the ice mountains-- melting on the north and south poles? I forget what they're called but they sank the Poseid-no, wait that was a big wave. They sank the one that Leonardo DiCaprio was on. Ironically, he is really into green causes. Go Leo!

I bet all that drowning made you run out and buy a Prius. I rather like a Toyota myself, in general. If they were a band, I would buy their music. Beep beep. But that's bad because I am supposed to want to bicycle. Always. Everywhere.


Where was I? Okay, so there's going to be this really big show, a concert - about this global heat problem we have all of a sudden? (Like Live Aid, but it's about the sun burning us all up I guess. It's why we take your old AA batteries and sundry and recycle them, see?) Anyway, everyone is quite serious about this now that we aren't really being able to have Satsuma Mandarins, best fruit in the world, now that there's all this global warming. The damn growing season was iced out. Scary!

So, anyway, the big pop show with the fantastic Spinal Tap is happening over at Wembley - an English thing, if I got that right? Let me tell you, I've been there - not Wembley Arena - just the old UK, and they didn't like me one bit. I want some of you Brits to pop on here and let me give you what for. I'm just as cute as a button, there's no explaining your ways to me. Tsk, I say. (Except Pi. We miss you sweety.honey.baby.)

I admit that there's other save the planet shows going on (I just pictured Bob Geldof making out with Al Gore and it weren't a pretty sight) around the old globe, even up in Antarctica they say. Believe that when I see it! All under the same moniker.

But, we're talking about Spinal Tap. So this time they're calling the big show Live Earth, which is after all what we're aiming for. Gets right to the point, doesn't it? We're not likely to have a big show and call it Dead Earth if you catch my meaning. Say, have you seen that blazing TV show called Planet Earth? Discovery Channel!! If you were a car, you'd be a Toyota! That, people, is a big compliment. If you haven't seen it yet, you should buy an IMAX theatre and invite me over. I'll bring pop. Not really, I'd bring bottled water, but it's all the same, isn't it?

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Posted by The Bay Area Crew on April 25, 2007 at 03:22am | Post a Comment

Watch out Phil-Natic!!

(they're watching you!)

18. La Marea
First feature from the man behind the amazing cinematography in Carlos Reygadas's films.
19. Joshua
First feature film by George Ratliff, who made the great doc Hell House.

20. TV Carnage
Amoeba Music loves TV Carnage. I love TV Carnage. Someone fly Pinky into town for a night in his honor! Or fight for the honor of premiering his mega-cop movie.
21. Klatsassin
This should probably be higher. Stan Douglas's endless Cariboo-set epic installation, with soundtrack by Rhythm and Sound. Add his take on Suspiria for good measure.

You prolific gore-hound. We loves you.

                         -- The Insomniac!
Posted by The Bay Area Crew on April 25, 2007 at 03:19am | Comments (2)

Good news for the Hard of Hearing music lover!

'Good times, bad times, you know I've had my pear ...'
I always hunt down lyrics anywhere I can find them. Why? Because I have no idea what the hell you're singing about unless you're Karen Carpenter. Bless Her Soul.

Most lyrics on the web are flawed, though the effort is 101% commendable. However, many of the times, the web user ends up with 14 pop ups in spite of firefox and pop up blockers galore. Then of course we have all the phishers who aren't lyric sites at all, but bad and mean people that I scowl at long and hard enough to permanently damage my epidermis.

So what's the damn news already? Yahoo is going to have a lyrics databse and the number I saw was 400,000+

Yay. If it completely and totally sucks, maybe we'll cry. Here's a note to Yahoo:

"Dear Yahoo,

    Inasmuch as I enjoy discovering what pithy words tumble from the mouth of Ghostface (not the puppy-dog that shops at Amoeba SF, he's so crazy we're all in love with him, but the grown man who has also shopped at Amoeba, the legend/regular dude from Wu Tang), I also need to know what was that there, that one phrase that I can't catch in composition from the 'rip your soul out and feed it to your conscience' singer/composer/miracle that we know as Diamanda Galas.

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Posted by The Bay Area Crew on April 24, 2007 at 11:28am | Post a Comment

BLONDE REDHEAD and LYMBYC SYSTYM on Sunday, 22

SF: Free Live Music! All Ages, as always.
Happy Weekend, we got your hook-up:
Personally, I dedicate my days to trying to make life within Amoeba happy (only got 9 lives, embrace it, eh?) ... and the free music works for me! Therefore, to salve your spirits and mine, I bring you these wonderful lickle bites of info:

Sunday, tomorrow 4/22/07, we are having 2 instores!! Checkity-check it:
                                                        our friends and yours ...
LYMBYC SYSTEM
2:00 pm

Folktronica! Indie-Rock!
Shirts with bears!
Hats! Music!
Pretty yellow wall! I want one!

LYMBYC, in my words? Experimental like nothing you've ever heard before, it isn't just some goofy noise thing where you're like, "Well. I've never heard anything like this before." It's got some layers. It's a damn good thing! (Ok, Ok, they aren't natives. Just local.)

The next show?
                        Blonde Redhead at 5:00 pm

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Posted by The Bay Area Crew on April 21, 2007 at 10:05am | Post a Comment

If you're coming to Amoeba today, Saturday April 21:

Art Show Tonight, SF, right around the corner.
come to haight street for ...

APAK - Little Sanctuary
@ Giant Robot SF
618 Shrader around the corner from Amoeba Haight Street







Reception: Saturday, April 21, 6:30 to 10:00
www.gr-sf.com











see you there or you'll see us there or we'll see eachother at amoeba. thank you.
show through May 10

giant robot 415.876.4773
Posted by The Bay Area Crew on April 21, 2007 at 09:55am | Post a Comment
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