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Akron/Family: hippies to the enth degree

So we went to akron/family last night. It seems that everytime I see them it is necessary for me to be completely drunk. I don't remember much of their set from the Monolith music festival. other than crying because they brought up pennslyvania, and I was worried Barack Obama was going to lose that state to john mccain in the election.

I suppose I wasn't as drunk last night, but I was pretty drunk. drunk enough to smoke in the venue. even though it's against the law. I guess I feel weird because I don't ever break the law anymore, I never drink and drive, I'm old enough to drink, and I've been laying off the poot, so I had to do something to rebel.

It's funny because just yesterday I went off about long sets and jamming. well, this set was long and there was like a ten minute jam session. I liked it though. I don't know if it was the 7 or so rum and cokes or the fact that someone even played a saw, but I really liked it. The beginning of the set was tight, defined songs, beutiful vocals. The end, as I said was full of jamming and at one point 9 or so musicians were on the stage going off on their instruments. Songs picked up and then got droney and at points it reminded of me of animal collective. I was a little sad they didn't play any of my favorite songs, but the show was really good nonetheless. It ended in a venue wide sing along that was like "last year was hard and this is our year" or something. I don't know, I was all about it at the time. Then again, the drunkeness factor could've had something to do it.

Overall it was a lot of fun, a way better experience than the time I saw them at monolith, and a great way to spend st. patricks day.

-marissa malouff

Fuck You: a quick post

Paul W.S. Anderson: Fuck you and your video game adaptions!

Regis Philbin,

You dirty son of a bitch, I hate you. Fuck you.

mstrkrft: your music is bullshit and shows no legitimate talent, fuck off already.

this concludes my first fuck you post.

-johnny ketchum

so..

I hate you blogger. I just wrote the longest post and it didn't save. fuck. I am having an annoying day. This is a post of rants, of the flattering and unflattering sort.

Because I am having such a bad day I am beginning this blog a picture of adorable kittens. kittens and ranting always make me feel better.



Now on to the latter. ranting.

First of all, Johnny and I decided not to go to coachella. it's too expensive and all our favorite bands at it are coming here anyway.

on that note there are a million good shows coming to denver in the next few months. i don't know how we will afford it.

TONIGHT! Akron/Family. Oriental
3.25 Ariel Pinks Haunted Grafitti. Hi Dive
3.26 The Spinto Band. Larimer Lounge.
3.29 The Tallest Man on Earth. Old main
4.3 Beep Beep. larimer lounge.
4.5 Bonnie Prince Billy. bluebird
4.10 conor oberst. ogden
4.11 conor oberst. aspen
4.15 Headlights. hi dive
4.21 The Black Lips. Bluebird
4.23 Wye Oak. Hi Dive
4.24 My Bloody Valentine. The Fillmore
4.25 Maria Taylor. Hi Dive
5.5 The Faint, Croccodiles, ladytron. the ogden
5.8 Adrien Orange. Rhinoceropolis
6.2 Leonard Cohen. red rocks. maybe?
6.14 Handsome Furs. Larimer Lounge

Shows we will go out of our way to make sure we don't miss
3.26 The Spinto Band
One of our love songs is "Spy vs. Spy". Plus, my love adores this band. we will go for sure.

4.10 Conor Oberst
who am I kidding? we'll be at both for sure. I'm sure his new album will blow. I have no expectations at all. poor conor just isn't that good. but old faves die hard.

4.15 Headlights
I think this band made me want to be 21 more than any other band, simply because they came so much before I was 21 and I always wanted to go. so I am definately going this time!

4.24 My Bloody Valentine
duh.

5.5 croccodiles
Seeing the faint is always fun, but we've seen them a lot and let's face it, they had like two good albums (Danse Macabre and Blank Wave Arcade). Everything they've released after danse macbre has been subpar at best. we are mainly going to see croccodiles. I haven't heard them but Johnny is very excited to see them. we definately won't miss it.

5.8 Adrien Orange
I adore everything on K records. prentenious and general but true...well except the blow, but that's because I got tired of them not because they are horrible. are they even still on k records? anyway I love love love thanksgiving. and I like rhinoceropolis. this will be a good one for sure.

Things we will go out of our way to miss
as well as good shows, there are some shows we you couldn't pay us to see. depending on the amount ofcourse.

Brian Jonestown Massacre. sometime in may? somewhere in denver.
We've all seen the documentary. and I had some friends who went to see them in '06 at the Boulder theater, and according to them it didn't go very well. it was basically a never ending set. Now, I have nothing against Brian Jonestown Massacre, but we have a lot against jamming. fuck jamming. I hate jamming more than anything else in music. and I hate long sets. there I said it. I get tired, my feet hurt and I want to sit down. I've become more and more anti- the long jam session the older I've become. and thats the difference between a concert goer in their twneties and a teenager. However, I still felt the same way about this when I was a little one, I just pretended like I liked it.

The Decemberists. sometime in may? also somewhere in denver.
There is nothing that makes me more mad than when the decemberists are someone's favorite band. really? favorite? that's a bit much. people are just too into them. . but I guess that doesn't make them bad. What makes me not like them is, 1) most of their music puts me to sleep 2) overplayed. johnny and I don't do well with over played songs.

Mstrkrft. also in may? denver.
what the fuck does this band come every day? Seriously. I cannot wait for this fad to pass.What's funny is that I don't even hate this band as much as johnny does. johnny hates mstrkrft with a passion. so yea, we'll steel clear of this one.

animal collective. beginning of june. boulder theater.
Okay, so ofcourse we will actually go to this. we love animal collective and wouldn't miss it. That doesn't change the fact that every tool in the world is going to be there. I have heard "I already bought my ticket bro" at least once a week...for the past two months. What the fuck? who buys their ticket to animal collective 6 MONTHS early?!?! We're not talking about the michael jackson tour, we're talking about animal collective. Animal Collective who played an unsold out show three years ago at cervantes. If you all love animal collective so much why weren't you there? oh and guess what..Animal Collective isn't even that good live. so quit acting like it's the second coming of christ. on that note, see you there.


-marissa malouff

oh man again.

Quick Post!

Worst Character name, EVER:



Dastardly Dick...I kinda like Dastardly Dog.

What in the world?

What the, hell? are you kidding me? I can't believe this I'm just flabbergasted, I really can't explain this right now it just does not make any sense to me at all..Why I'm so shocked is because I accidentally stumbled upon it, it's just one of those things people like me do not want to run across...What I'm talking about is, A.V.A's.

Now, you may be asking yourself, "What is an A.V.A?" an A.V.A is an American Voice Actor. Now, why do they bug me or do I never want to see them? Because they ruin every thought you have on an awesome character just because they don't look how you imagine them to! AHH! Again, I know I'm repeating myself I'm just a little take by, but I guess I should get to the start of this rant.

I'd never looked up this name because of the characters he does voices for, Spike from Cowboy Bebop most specifically. some one as a kid, I thought was just the coolest guy ever and all that jazz, to see this man who does the voice for one of my favorite anime characters ever and also lend his voice to other favorites of mine, oh god, and looking into this guy, he's done voices for everything you could ever think of in the nerd world...GOD, I do not see this guy being the voice of: Spike Spiegel, Ares!? (are you kidding me!?), Ken, Vincent Valentine, Mugen the list goes on. These are just the few characters that really stick out to me. Now, I have no problem with the guy I obviously love his work, I just don't see these characters being this man. I could show you guys these characters but it'd just take too long and I just frankly wouldn't like to do so when it'd be easier to wiki this guy and you'd see him and could search the characters he's been it's just..insane, I was much more heated about this earlier and had a longer rant in store but, I lost it, I got hungry, and I needed a cigarette. I also understand that Marissa is a much better writer than I am, so...Sorry for the jumble of words and lack of...correctness?

Johnny Ketchum

Another post to my Love

Since Marissa is on Vacation with her sister, and dad, I'm posting this update specifically for her. I love you you baby and hope you have a great time and hope that you'll always love me. that's all I really have to say, I love you, I never want to be without you, and hope you enjoy yourself in Las Vegas!

Love,

     Your Butt.

Johnny Ketchum the Gaming Geek

Hi, I'm Johnny, you can just start calling me Ketchum. Soon I'm going to start making actual posts, more so about gaming. I'd like to post video reviews, good and bad not angry or happy, just trying to "keep it cool". I'm not trying to be a "Little Miss Gamer" but in a sort, I guess so. I'll be reviewing games, new and old, It'll be in my own goofy way. Beyond all this seeing how it's VD..I have this to add.

Marissa Malouff, you know...The music geek here. I love her to no end and this is our first valentines day together and all I'm going to make this day as perfect as I can. I can't go on with this because I have to spend every moment with her now!!

Just a silly update, from me.

Johnny Ketchum

Today I got tagged in a note where you list 10 albums that changed your life. I'm busy at work, so ofcourse, I made a list.
-Marissa

1. bright eyes- everyday and everynight ep
Obv. I'm putting one bright eyes album on this list, even though I really could put all of them. This ep really captured my eemness of being 14. It was one of the first albums I really really loved, and the album I've loved the most in life.



Aw..yes. Bright Eyes.. my favorite band, clearly, I mean I've seen Conor Oberst in some incarnation 17 times. yep. 17 times. creepy? no. alright, maybe a little.





2. Weezer- Pinkerton
This probably actually was the first album I ever really loved. Weezer was my first favorite band (before bright eyes). Plus, this is a great album. At the time, I'd never heard so much emotion in music. This album, even though not emo at all, introduced me to the term. And made me obsessed with Weezer. The first real show I went to was Weezer at the city auditorium in Colorado Springs with my sister, and I remember thinking, "man, I love going to shows." Plus,my love for weezer was the first thing Johnny and I had in common. with out me loving this album, we may have never started talking!




I once was on the weezer forum. I always waited up to see if
"Ace" would get on. I acted like I was 16, even though I was 13.





3. Sonic Youth- Dirty
When I was younger we had MTV2, and I'd watch 120 minutes on it. One day, i was watching MTV2 and they showed the video for "100%". The video was Jason Lee skateboarding. At the time, I really liked Jason Lee because I was all about Mall Rats, so the video really caught my attention, and I fucking loved the song. So I went and bought Dirty at circut city with my dad, it was right before he, my sister and I went to New York City for the first time. When we were young, our parents would always let us buy one cd before a vacation, this was my one cd. Unfortunately, it was the last time this deal was ever applied. Anyway, the album was the weirdest thing I'd ever heard, seeing as I was only in middle school. It was crazy. I had never heard experimental anything before. I remember at first I could only listen to a few songs, but then I began to love pretty much every song on the album. And then it was like a whole world of underground music opened for me.

Sonic Youth kick ass live. duh. and Sonic Youth kick ass in general. I sound like a bro. oh well.

4. The Strokes- Is This It?
This is another of my early favorites. Not that I necessarily love this album now, but at the time when it came out I really really liked it. And it opened doors for me, I got into garage rock in New York, the white stripes and the whole idea of indie rock. Before that I didn't really listen to, well..anything good, other than weezer. But then I loved this, and it prompted me to find other things I'd like and look into music.

I thought Julian Casablancas was so dreamy back in the day, now I think he's a tool.





5. Neil Young- hawks and doves...but only the doves side.
I think this is an over looked album in general. But for me, "little wing" specifically makes this record. For some reason, I absolutely love this song. It reminds me of the fall, specifically the fall of the first year i lived in my house. It is so empty, yet so pretty, I can still imagine driving down the street pulling up to my house and hearing this song. I finally felt like an adult.and like the song, it was empty, yet amazing.

Neil Young may be creepy looking, but he's good. I've always preferred him to Bob Dylan..just sayin.

6. Nick Drake- way to blue

This isn't an album, but a compilation. Meghan burned it for Sarah when we were only 14. Sarah and I would listen to it before we fell asleep during the summer before we started high school. I really really loved every song, and had never heard anything so pretty. This really got me started on folk music, which has become a big staple in what I listen to. Plus, Nick Drake has become one of my favorite musicians. His songs are so pretty, yet they are so sad too.

Nick Drake was probably one of the best folk singers ever. His voice makes me want to cry.

7. Elliott Smith- Either/Or

Another absolutely beautiful album. This was the first elliott smith record I bought, and I could not stop listening to the intro to "angeles", in fact, I still can't, and I've had the record for like 6 years or something like that. Absolutely beautiful. After I bought this record, I fell in love with elliott smith. I bought this album pretty soon after he had died, too. Before he died, I had alot of his music downloaded, including waltz #2 and baby britain and other songs I love, but this record was my first real record. I remember I went with my dad to independent records to buy it.

E.S. still makes me sad. And has grown into one of my absolute favorite musicians, in fact, he's number 2.

8. The Clash- london calling

Picture it, 14 year old girl with pink hair in university park that shops at hot topic...unfortunately for me, that was the beginning of my freshmen year of high school. But, this was one of my first actually punk records I bought, and I loved it. loved loved loved it. Sadly, soon after I got into the clash, Joe Strummer died. So I named my cool electric guitar, that I had and still have no idea how to play, Julie. After "Julie's Been working for the drug squad". I loved "london calling" because I absolutely loved "Guns of Brixton". and i was really cool and punk rock. I remember Meghan asked me, "why are so into punk rock" and I just responded, "because I'm angry". I was only 14, I don't know what I was so mad about. but I was mad. And at the time, the clash and other punk bands made me feel better.

Yea, I know, you may not consider The Clash punk. And they did sign with ABC, or CBS, or whatever. But, for a suburban honor student, they were pretty bad ass.

9. Cursive- Domestica

Because of my age, I was into saddle creek. I mean, I was 14 when lifted came out, and around that age when domestica came out and the execution of all things, and danse macabre. I was like right at the age to be getting into music, and right at the age where when you like something you LOVE it. So, I loved this record. I still do. Cursive was the first small show I went to. I went for my 15th birthday, it was at the bluebird and I yelled at my mom to drop me and sarah off down the street, because it's such a good idea for 14 year olds to be walking down colfax alone. I wore fake emo glasses and and eem pin and felt really cool. ofcourse, I wasn't. Anyway, at the show I bought "Domestica" and I remember I listened to it the entire way home on my walkman. It was so angular, each song so good, it was hard but pretty at the same time. I still love this record.

I met Tim Kasher once. He was kind of a dick. and pretty much everything he's released post-album of the year and the ugly organ have sucked.

10. The Smiths..some greatest hits collection

I know, greatest hits collections really shouldn't even count. But I only 14 when I bought it, so it counts for me. I feel like there is a descripency between people who liked the cure more than the smiths and visa versa. I really think you can tell a lot about a person's taste in music by that in itself. I was, with out a doubt, more of a smiths fan. And this was the first cd I bought. Later, I'd have meat is murder, and the like. But this was the first. and the last song was "please let me get what I want", it was eem so ofcourse I was all about it. Buying this dumb collection is why I want to go to coachella this year. pretty much the main reason why. It made me love the smiths, let me be eem, and kind of was a big part in me beginning to really look into 80s music. plus it made me like pretty in pink more than I already did.

Hopefully Johnny and I will be seeing the supposed A-Sexual Morrissey at Coachella. Does he still claim to be A-Sexual?

excuse i

So SXSW has dissapointing line up. I'm afraid to admit there are only a few bands on it worth seeing. However, Coachella finally has a good line up...I guess. My issue with festivals is, obviously, the cost. Is seeing paul mccartney really worth $300, a flight, and a fight with my dad. I don't think so. (I never liked Paul anyway).

I just can't seem to get excited about any festival anymore. Other than SXSW...last year. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Morrissey, Leonard Cohen and My Bloody Valentine. But the Cure? It's not special anymore, we've all seen them now, they've been back to spotlight for years. Trust me, I know, I was at the coachella when they played the first re-united show five years ago. Maybe I'm just older now. Have better taste. or maybe, and probably so, I'm just cheaper. It's sad really. We will probably find a way to go this year, but not necessarily because there is anything on the line up that I'd die with out seeing.

The bonnaroo line up came out today, it too, just didn't do it for me. Bruce Springsteen and Phish are the headliners. But not just one day of Phish...a double dose. two nights in a row. I live in Boulder, you'd have to kill me before making me take a vacation to hang out with the same Ras-Trent assholes that I go to school with. To be fair, a lot of the bands on the line up are alright, Okkervil River, Jenny Lewis, Animal Collective. But all the good bands are either at Coachella or playing in Denver the week before. And MGMT is there, I cannot support a festival that has MGMT on the line up. I'm sorry. Can't do it. Just the mere idea of hearing "Time to Pretend" for a two seconds from a distance would make me kill myself. literaly. I'm getting mad just thinking about it.

that's all for today.

marissa

And now a silly rant

So seeing how the Super Bowl was just two days ago I thought I'd talk about the movie spots...

as far as I've seen...not a lot of action going on there...I mean...Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and GI Joe Rise of Cobra...awesome...Both titles are lacking creativity but who needs creativity when you have big names like Transformers and GI Joe? I'm so annoyed with the state of movies and adaptions in general it's gotten old, about eight years ago...come on now. Do we really need more mindless films being made? Now, Pixar's Up seems like a cute and sad story...I'm sure that will be great. The preview doesn't give you much besides the fact that it's about an old man, a little boy, and a house that has been lifted by hundreds of balloons..I'm excited for this though. I'm also very excited for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...We all know the movies aren't as great as the books but what people tend to forget is if you wanted to read the books, read them. They're at your disposal it's not like you couldn't do so. So stop complaining that "The movies just don't do it justice" I know tons of fans that got into the series because of the movies such as I, now granted I got the books that were out as soon as I'd seen the first movie but it was still an entry way to the books for me. Now I'm cutting this short because I'm running late to my next class.

Johnny Ketchum

To the Love of My Life

This blog is my first blog here and it is dedicated to the love of my life: Marissa Malouff.

I love you more than I could ever say I could never explain how much I love you and have it be so sincere I will always be there for you no matter what we go through and no matter what happens you'll always be my best friend and I've never felt so in love with someone as much as I'm in love with you. I could list all the reasons why I love you but it'd take me my entire lifetime. It's the greatest thing I've ever had in my life I couldn't and wouldn't be happier with anyone else. Happy birthday love I love you with everything in me.

Love, 

Johnny Escobedo

9:15 am today

Happy Inauguration Day!

JJ casual

Jack Johnson, Nick Drake fan extraodinaire ,  you handsome devil you. 

Today has been a bad day for us. Well, I guess that depends on your opinion of Jack Johnson. 

First, I found a random person, presumably stealing our bandwidth, whose iTunes library included Creed, Garth and our favorite- JJ. Jack Johnson. Really, this wasn't a bad thing, it was a glorious thing. It gave us a chance to wake Chris up with "Mud Football" and listen to The Counting Crows. In fact, being able to listen to this DB's library was a high light of our day. 

Then, Johnny dedicated his myspace to JJ, and JJ's relaxing nature and tropical spirit. By this point in the day, we had about enough JJ humor to last us for at least a week. But it continued, as Chris changed my homepage to the video of "Flake", a personal favorite of his. 

Mr. Johnson continued to haunt us though, we saw that Andy  Samberg had done a sketch mocking JJ, called JJ Casual.  Thanks to Jack Johnson's good sense of humor, we easily found it on his very own website. A racist like Mark Wahlberg? Not Mr. Johnson. 

But now, I find myself truly tired of running into Jack Johnson. As now, the humor of his bro-ness is gone, and anger has replaced it. 

Apparently, Jack Johnson is curating a tribute to Nick Drake. WTF? He, along with Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl, are covering my favorite folk singer of all time on a record released on Brushfire Records- JACK JOHNSON'S Record label. I don't really have much else to say about this. You would think I could see something like this coming, I go to CU, the biggest tool school in the world. I literally think CU has the biggest JJ fan base of any university in the country, if not the world. And while I've seen bros a plenty destroying my affection for Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes and the like- I never heard "Cello Song" blasting from a dorm window while I was at the dining hall. And trust me, I was at the dining hall a lot. I don't know even know what else to say about this. 

-Marissa

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