07.19.03
oh my fucking god! les savy fav are the saviors of brooklyn rock and roll. my god!!!

photo: jinners

07.18.03
you give me fever

photo: jinners

the night started off very innocent. i was going to go home and relax. someone at work actually offered me a free ticket to see blur at hammerstein... and i declined because i thought i was going home (thanks anyway, margaret, you rock!). little did i know that i would indeed be going to a show... to see the fever! i snored through some other bands and chatted with some new peeps. good to meet all of you! the fever instantly woke me up from my slumber and grumble and made me feel all giddy. i couldn't take my eyes off of lead singer geremy. he was simply electric. water got thrown on my smiling face. the mic stand fell on my ready and willing hand. the end of the stand got shoved into my crotch and outside of the club some girl burnt me with her cigarette. it was a night of full throttle rock and roll, and i was sober the entire time, and it was so much fun! i think geremy saw me dancing all crazy-like and gave me funny looks from the stage. i'm sorry i just can't help myself. my hips start to shake and my heart starts to convulse with joy and adrenalin. good music makes me schizophrenic on the dancefloor. yes, folks, i likes to boogie. so what was missing from the night? those pretty red "fever" lights that are usually behind the guys. no frills, but plenty of thrill. and yes, the moving units drummer chris hathwell was there supporting his buddies and singing along -- he knew every single word! he must have snuck out after the blur show at hammerstein! i guess i could have gone to both shows. oh well.

photo: jinners

photo: jinners

the other day i also went to see knife skills' triumphant return to the new york scene. anna and fon lin were hot as hell and matty, their new drummer, kept up with the pace. it was a star-packed crowd with jeannie, zach, alice, naf, mario, ropstyle, stupid dj crew, roboflan, and the rest of y'all packed ivy south to witness greatness. sweet!

photo: jinners

photo: jinners

i also saw the ex models play at north six. man, they were fucking hardcore. that's how rawk is supposed to played these days. it was so shattered and pieced back together... and playful at the same time. i enjoyed the deconstruction and look forward to the next time they cut it up and let it bleed.

on another note, here is a picture of a locust:

photo: jinners

tonight i am going to les savy fav at the bowery ballroom... and then i am going to siren music festival at coney island on saturday. it's been a hectic week, y'all. are you ready for the weekend?

don't forget to stop by the rock and roll garage sale at luxx on sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. it's the going to be the ultimate indie flea market of the century and lots of peeps will be selling cool ass shite! plus, air conditioning and drink specials galore AND good music! oh yeah, and annabiotica and jinners will be there, buying and selling the gushystuff. i mean, you know, cool hard-to-find collectors shit.

07.15.03
mommy and daddy

photo: jinners

mommy and daddy played sin-e on saturday and i thought that i was off-duty as far as photos were concerned, but then kevin's camera ran out of batteries and he asked me to take some shots. so i did. above is one. mommy and daddy shook their thang on stage and rawked the stage like a vandal. the room turned into baby baby baby baby oh baby as the crowd was transfixed by vivian's bewitching ways and edmond's fits of performance epilepsy. check out jasper's amazing photos of mommy and daddy. damn, the guy can click, can't he?

incidentally, when i got to sin-e that night, the door guy said, "oh you're a regular" when i gave him my ID. then inside when i paid the girl, she said, "you've been here alot." have i? and why do they remember me???

i've started a fotolog because i don't know where to put the extra photos i take that are not music-related. how fucked up is it that you can only upload one photo a day? check out my first upload... i tried to be artsy fartsy but i'm not really that good. it's just life.

photo: jinners

photo: jinners
so i went to...sin-e... earlier -- july 7th -- and saw fon lin's new band china syndrome. they were very experimental and put me in an instant trance. plus they wore white hot outfits that made me think of purity, essence and free spirits. simon was working the electronic beats, fon lin the violin and dave on saxophone.

photo: jinners

photo: jinners

on the moon's favorite grafitti artist, neck face, strikes the williamsburg bridge. this is what i saw when i walked over the bridge this past weekend... yeah i skipped the infamous junkyard show this year to walk around the city and then into wburg on my own two feet. it was fun. next bridge to walk is the brooklyn. woo hoo! but just in case you missed it, here's a flashback to last year's amazing junkyard show with the liars and the yeah yeah yeahs:

photo: jinners

photo: jinners

i was listening the liars today and i miss them terribly. when are they coming back??? waaaaaaaah. watch this junkyard performance and you'll get liars fever, too. for sure.

hipsters at the pretty girls make graves show:

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me, as a hipster:

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the jean genie -- the blog. yay!

i'm losing my edge -- the blog. yay!

listen to this!
from dj lg:
hey if you are home this friday night, i'm gonna be on wnyu from 10:30 to 1am, gettin' to the tunes i ran out of time for on wednesday. i think they archive the stuff, so you can check it out later if you can't get it on the dial...

and finally a couple upcoming shows you should NOT miss:
07.15.03
ex-models, the locust, young people, chinese stars
@ north six, 8 p.m., $10

07.16.03
Neanderthal Thunder Wednesdays:
knife skills, the amverts, the bronx, Aa; hosted by Ropstyle and the Stupid D.J.s Crew
@ ivy south, 9:30 p.m.

our dear friend annabiotica is in knife skills, so you should check that shit out, yo!

also don't forget this historic event:
FIRST ANNUAL LUXX
ROCK'N'ROLL GARAGE SALE!!!

Sunday, July 20th. 1-5 pm

FREE ADMISSION! HAPPY HOUR DRINK SPECIALS!

HEY Record Whores, Guitar Geeks, Rhodes Scholars, Microphone Mamas, Drum Hogs, and Amp Hoarders!

Come BUY, SELL, & TRADE with the best of them--your fellow neighborhood musicians, DJs, party starters, students, and perpetually underemployed hip kids.

Call 718-387-2007 or email info@onthemoonmusic.com to reserve vendor space, rates vary according to lot size. Small $10, Medium $15, and Jumbo $20. One time fee collected day of the sale. YOU MUST RSVP BY FRIDAY, JULY 18th to guarantee a space!

Reserve a vendor space NOW to sell your instruments, records and other rock and roll items! Put money in your pocket or some new music in your heart!>>>

Sponsored by Luxx and www.onthemoonmusic.com

256 Grand Street (Driggs & Roebling) Brooklyn

special thanks to wolfy and kayrock for making those awesome hot pink posters for this momentous occasion! a&j love you forever. word. walk around wburg a lil' and you'll see the nifty poster these two sweeties made for us!

photo: jinners

that smiths cover band, black on the outside, last night at the bqe lounge at ropstyle's party, the situation. that singer sure could swing his hips eh? even when there wasn't music playing! matthew says it looked like the smiths were aerobicizing (spelling?). they still made me kinda sad with whimsy:

under the iron bridge we kissed, and though i ended up with sore lips, it just wasn't like the old days anymore. no it wasn't like those days...am i still ill? does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body, i dunno...

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