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To the THREE guys at the Cha Cha Lounge Saturday night with the "ironic mullets":

You aren't ironic - or clever - or stylish.  You make people cringe in disgust like a morbidly obese person who is smoking does.  You're like a jock's bad Halloween redneck costume and you must be stopped. 

There is no more irony in Silverlake  It was plunged free of irony the day the median house price hit seven figures.  Your "hair joke" smacks of an East Side Trust Funder with a bad eye for what's retro-funny.  Please stop and go back to the Swingers scene from whence you came.

It took a 6 hour plane ride and another 5 1/2 by car, but last week while driving down Interstate 10 towards Panama City, Florida to meet up with the girlfriend's relatives, we passed just within my old college radio station's transmitter for a few minutes.  I was bombarded with images of the person I was in college.  A goateed, nervous, congested, poor-but-happy college DJ working part-time at Vinyl Fever...  For some people, if you're lucky, it's a specific taste or smell that ellicits a dormant memory.  For me, it was a marble-mouthed top-of-the-hour "WVFS/Tallahassee" station ID .  I remembered people and places I hadn't been in 15 years.  More like they came rushing back in a blast of psuedo-nostalgia.  There are very few times, let alone *places*, on this Earth where you have the ability and perspective to say "that's where I became who I am now".   

And when the station's signal faded out about 15 minutes later during a well-placed Stephen Malkmus song, my focus returned to the road ahead for cops staked out in between trees who could ticket me for driving 85 mph. So, yeah.

There’s a big list of shows coming up that I really want to go to.  If you’re inclined to see any of em, drop me a line / start a thread / or buy tickets today and let me know.

 Saturday, October 8       BRMC     El Rey     Anyone have an extra ticket?

Monday, October 10       Opeth   House of Blues       If no Isotopes game…    

Wednesday, Oct 12       Black Dahlia Murder     Troubadour

Thursday, October 13     Death From Above 1979     El Rey  I’m going by myself if I have to…

Friday, October 14         Turbonegro     Avalon    International Noise Conspiracy on bill!     

Saturday, October 20     Gang of Four     Wiltern             

Friday, October 21         Sons & Daughters   Spaceland       Frank?

Saturday, October 22     Throw Rag     Troubadour        w/ Gogol Bordello

Friday, October 28         Pretty Girls Make Graves   Troubadour

Sunday, October 30       The Haunted     Key Club           They’re actually 3^rd on the bill to God Forbid and Meshuggah

Friday, November 4        Detroit Cobras    Troubadour        Erica & I already have a pair of tix.  Join us or die.

I’ve got an mp3 or 2 from each of the above too.  If you want to hear one, lemmeno.  Seriously, we all need to get out and see more bands...  It’s time to shake that “I’m out of the demo” feeling.  If you’ve got your eye on a show that’s not on this list – REPLY and get a conversation going and maybe we’ll all join you!

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Jay Hughen

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