Month: October 2005

Why the hell did Fred Flintstone order a piece of meat so heavy it made his car fall over? What an idiot.

Can you trust this man’s judgement?

Clerks and associates who have worked with him paint a picture of a polite, modest, quietly humorous man who enjoys baseball?he’s a Phillies fan?and who enjoys exploring the ethnic restaurants that surround his office in Newark.

The emphasis is all mine.

Drop 250,000 super balls into San Francisco and you get this. (19 MB download)

You know what’s the worst feeling? When you go to print out your will call confirmation number “just to be on the safe side” and you look at the email and it says, “Delivery: US Mail.”

Shit

And it’s an hour before the show starts.

Shit. Shit.

So stupid ass nexttix.com never sent me my tickets and I just assumed they were at will call until the last minute.

This paragraph was at the end of the email I got from them.

If you have selected regular mail and have not received your tickets within 72 hours of the event you must alert NEXT Ticketing of that condition. To report tickets not received in the mail, please contact support@nextticketing.com or call NEXT Customer Support at 1-800-431-3462. DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL For additional information on this policy please refer to Terms and Conditions at http://www.nexttix.com/next/online/terms.html

So I called the number and left a message for someone to call me back. I also tried calling the TLA to see if they could do anything, but they only had a recording on the line.

Jeanne and I went to the TLA in the hopes that I would get a call back from nexttix in time. I explained to the ticket seller my problem and she called nexttix herself and said, “they better call her back.” (The girl working at the TLA was really nice about it by the way. Many ticket agents would have just said “tough” and moved on to the next customer)

We waited and waited and still no call back, so eventually I had to buy two more tickets. Luckily it wasn’t sold out and the bright side is that proceeds from the show went to help victims of hurricane Katrina. Plus, they were only $15.

Some lessons were learned.

1. Always check to make sure you have your tickets in plenty of time before the show.
2. Be twice as careful ordering from a company like nexttix.com.

Anyway, how was the show? It rocked.

Opening up was Dr Dog who was worth seeing just for the guy on the right dancing like crazy. He was a tiny man with long hair, a hat and sunglasses and he couldn’t. stop. dancing. on stage while playing guitar and occasionally singing. Good stuff.

Next up was the NOLA soul/hip-hop/jazz/rock Stooges Music Group. It took a while, but I have to give these guys credit for getting 500 indie rockers to dance. They were a lot of fun.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah put together a great set of almost every song they’ve ever been known to play. They even played Heavy Metal, which they didn’t play at any of their other three Philly shows this summer. The sound was great and much better than the First Unitarian Church and the Khyber. You could hear a lot more detail in their songs.

Alec definitely isn’t content with doing the album versions, either. He drifts off into different octaves and even threw a solo (?) into This Home on Ice. The band mostly sticks close to their lines, but Alec is either bored or just likes to mix things up.

Anyway, the show was awesome. They closed with Upon this Tidal Wave of Youngblood and then a Neil Young cover. The highlight for me was Heavy Metal and it sounds killer live.

Update: More show reviews by 700 level and callmemickey, and the BM Rant

Man Arrested For Sprinkling Fecal Matter On Pastries

When I saw this headline I thought to myself, “How can you sprinkle fecal matter?” and to my surprise the reporter totally answered my question.

I am getting pretty damn old.

At least I have tickets for tonight’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show at the TLA.

So Time Magazine put together a list of the best 100 novels since 1923 and blogger Matt Baldwin came up with the genius idea of finding bad Amazon reviews for the list. The results are hilarious.

Lord of the Flies (1955)

Author: William Golding

?I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun. WRONG!!! It is incredibly boring and disgusting. I was very much disturbed when I found young children killing each other. I think that anyone with a conscience would agree with me.?

Read the rest here. (I first saw this one blinq)

Update:: Ugh, I’ve only read 11 of Time’s top 100.

Attention Odd Man In players who are thinking of donating: Today is your last day to get double tokens! Head here for details.

According to this site, it’s worth $12,984.

Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, I’ve created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

Check out XPN’s top 885 albums of all time. Of course, no mention of the list would be complete without some blasphemy.

126 ALANIS MORISSETTE JAGGED LITTLE PILL 1995
127 MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER 1982

or how about

25 COUNTING CROWS AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER 1993
118 BECK ODELAY 1996